I with you, they can put them in my boat as well. I am not embarrassed to put them in my boat either!

I use to not eat them, then one weekend got the bright idea to go to the camp on blind river and not bring much food and eat what I caught well i cleaned one and fried it because it was the only thing I caught and was very suprised how good it was.

someone told me, you can actually freeze choupique and it will stay as fresh as any other fish? i tried and it don't work for me! do you or anyone know, the secret to freezing choupique, so they will stay fresh? if you do, i would love to know!! thanks a lot!!!

I have a camp down blind river too, but don't you know that everything taste good at camp. Might have something to do with the beers..LOL

I have a guy I work with that loves to fry Choupique. He says the secret is to keep them as long as you can alive and then clean them and eat them right away. If I catch them I just leave them in my livewell till I get to his house and drop them off for him. I want to say that he says you can keep them for a while if you put a little vinegar in the some water with the filets. Ill ask him tommorow about freezing them and try to update then!

Me and my buddy fish bass tournanments, and twice this year we have come back with big choupic in the livewell while the other livewell has bass. Golden rule of being a coona$$, never ever throw back a choupic. You have to keep them alive and clean them as soon as you get back, fry it that night. The only other thing you can do is make choupic patties.

That is one fish I won't eat. Noway.

They fight like redfish and jump like tarpon, love to catch em, but honestly have never tried to eat em! Not saying i wouldn't, i'd probably eat anything when hungry enough!

No Way. Not me! Used to catch them as a kid and sell them to an old black lady who lived up the street for $2 each. I know selling fish is illegal but the statute of limitations has expired so back off you possum cops!

My buddy from Choupic turned me on to Choupic. They eat what they can while fresh, and then he freezes them up to several months. The secret is to pass and batter them, and then freeze them. When you pull them out they are ready to go, and it protects the meat.

Clean him while he is still alive and fry him crispy. Not bad with a six pack.

The fish that keeps on giving.
Eat it once and it keeps coming up the rest of the day.
Horrible fish.
Never try it again.

Choupic is one of my favorite fish to eat. If you don't know how to cook it, then you don't know what you're missing. You have to clean it while it is still alive, soak the meat in vinigar and ice water for about 20 minutes to let the meat firm up, and then fry it in half flour/half fishfry. Then you make yourself a nice poyboy and lick your fingures good. Ya'll making my mouth water just thinking about it.

To me when someone says you have to know how to cook a fish a certain way it is b/c the fish is nasty and fishy.

Until year before last, I too would say no way to eating a Choupique until i tried it just for the hell of it one day. I have always heard that you HAVE to keep them alive. DO NOT put them on ice. You can simply put them in a 5 gallon bucket with a little water and they will live for a while. Clean them fresh. I soaked mine in salt and milk for about a half hour to draw the blood out then battered and fried him. You talk about good. I have also heard that they are better if you catch them in clean water. It is possible that it will taste nasty if you catch one out of some nasty backwater.

Some friends and I went Sunday to the honey hole and slammed 61-monster choupic. Three of the guys that came fishing choupic, for the first time, were ready to trade me there $200-plus bass lines for my $10 cane pole!!! We fried all that up for their families that afternoon and you couldn’t find a crumb on the table. These guys never fished nor ate choupic before and now they are HOOKED.

some us cajuns evidently never went to bed hungry when they were young

These fish are better table fare than some people give them credit. I've had many a Choupic sauce picante and/or Chopic patties. BTW, this fish is much better during colder months of the year as it "firms up" the flesh of the fish.

You are right about everything tasting better at the camp, but the beer could also have had something to do with it, my unlce owns the camp and I went the summer I got out of high school to fish and drink, spent what money I had on beer and gas in my little 1436 boat and enjoyed myself and the Choupique I caught, it was fun times, really fun when the fish are biting, and you get a frog or two at night

ive never eaten them but i love the way they fight!

i would rather eat choupic than speckled trout or sacalait.
i agree that you have to keep them alive until you are ready to cook them, i usually cook them in a fryer outside, i start the oil heating before i start cleaning fish. drop the filets in ice water with a little vinegar in it. then cut into finger size pieces, pass in mustard with a little hot sauce, then fish fry, and drop them into hot oil.

to you guys than are wondering about having to ccok it a certain way, it's not that it tastes fishy or nasty if not done right, it's that the meat gets mushy, which isn't good.

Don't know. What has kept me from eating them is the stories about the low quality of meat. Of course if I would have listened to all of the stories I wouldn't have ever tried gar.

you guys that never tried it, need to try it, you will love it!!! just get someone who knows how to cook it, you will throw all your other fish away, guaranteed!! just cook it fresh!! clean them while they are still alive, that is the secret, fresh, fresh, fresh!!!! don't forget the 12 pack of budlite or case, whatever your ability? just like any other fish fry!!! just make sure you sleep it off good, b4 you get in the boat again, SAFETY FIRST!!!

I was raised on Choupic & White Beans,,,Grew up right next to a canal that used to be full of them,I would go and catch 2 or 3 whatever mom wanted for super in no time at all.Always had a good suply of patties in the freezer to.

there is a place in napoleonville on hwy 1 that serves choupique poboys, very good. your not the only one but probably the oldest one, no offense but the older coonasses, like me, remember how good it is.

i have never eaten it,until i met my wife then her dad made some patties and cooked that in a stew, man i liked to have killed my self eating that, but i was raised that it was a trash fish, but now i keep everyone that i catch,when we clean then we cut the scales off the sides, and the cuts and the head and we freze the rest, until we or ready to make the patties