Panfish
Usage
The term panfish or pan-fish has been used to refer to a wide range of edible freshwater and saltwater fish species that are small enough to cook in a small pan. In American Food and Game Fishes. A Popular Account of All The Species Found In America North Of The Equator, With Keys For Ready Identification, Life Histories And Methods of Capture Jordan and Evermann (1908) they identify all the following as panfish in some form or another: Yellow Perch, Candlefish, Balaos, Sand Launces, Rock Bass, Bullheads, Minnows, Rocky Mountain Whitefish, Sand Rollers, Crappie, Yellow Bass, White Bass, Croaker and of course most of the common small sunfishes such as bluegill and redear sunfish..
Here but one example:
As a pan-fish we do not know of any better among American freshwater fishes. We have experimented with the yellow perch and several other species, including both species of black bass, the bluegill, wall-eyed pike, and rock-bass, eating each for several days in succession, and found the yellow perch the sweetest and most delicious of them all. One does not tire of it so soon as of the other kinds. Several other persons who tried the same experiment reached the same conclusion. In most parts of its range it is highly esteemed, and in many places it is of very considerable commercial importance. In the Great Lakes, the Potomac River, and the small lakes in the upper Mississippi Valley large quantities are taken, which always find a ready sale. .
The following is a typical example of the term as it was commonly used in cooking taken from The White House Cookbook compiled by Hugo Ziemann, chief kitchen steward in the White House in 1901:
TO FRY FISH – Most of the smaller fish (generally termed pan-fish) are usually fried. Clean well, cut off the head, and, if quite large, cut out the backbone, and slice the body crosswise into five or six pieces; season with salt and pepper. Dip in Indian meal or wheat flour, or in beaten egg, and roll in bread or fine cracker crumbs trout and perch should not be dipped in meal; put into a thick bottomed iron frying pan, the flesh side down, with hot lard or drippings; fry slowly, turning when lightly browned. PAN-FISH. Place them in a thick bottomed frying pan with heads all one way. Fill the spaces with smaller fish. When they are fried quite brown and ready to turn, put a dinner plate over them, drain off the fat; then invert the pan, and they will be left unbroken on the plate. Put the lard back into the pan, and when hot slip back the fish. When the other side is brown, drain, turn on a plate as before, and slip them on a warm platter, to be sent to the table. Leaving the heads on and the fish a crispy-brown, in perfect shape, improves the appearance if not the flavor. Garnish with slices of lemon.
Clearly, in most of today angling literature members of the freshwater family Centrarchidae are the target species most likely to be called panfish. They include:
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochiris)
Cutlips minnow (Exoglossum Maxillingua)
Crappie, including
White crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
Black crappie (Pomoxis annularis)
Flier (Centrarchus macropterus)
Green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus)
Redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
Redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus)
Spotted sunfish (Lepomis punctatus)
Perch, including
Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
European perch (Perca fluviatilis)
Balkhash perch (Perca schrenkii)
Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
Warmouth (Chaenobryttus gulosus)
See also
Fishing
References
Article References
^ New Mexico Game and Fish. “Warm Water Species: Panfish” http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/recreation/fishing/warm_water_species/Panfish.htm (accessed June 3, 2007).
^ Jordan, David Starr, PhD; Evermann, Barton Warren PhD (1908). merican Food And Game Fishes. A Popular Account Of All The Species Found In America North Of The Equator, With Keys For Ready Identification, Life Histories And Methods Of Capture. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. pp. 120, 227, 242, 247, 263, 329, 335, 366, 338, 376, 377, 463.
^ Jordan, David Starr, PhD; Evermann, Barton Warren PhD (1908). merican Food And Game Fishes. A Popular Account Of All The Species Found In America North Of The Equator, With Keys For Ready Identification, Life Histories And Methods Of Capture. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. p. 366.
^ Ziemann, Hugo; Gillette, F. L. (1901). The White House Cookbook-A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home. Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company. pp. 4950.
Other References
Ellis, Jack (1993). The Sunfishes-A Fly Fishing Journey of Discovery. Bennington, VT: Abenaki Publishers, Inc.. ISBN 0-936644-17-6.
Rice, F. Philip (1964). America’s Favorite Fishing-A Complete Guide to Angling for Panfish. New York: Harper Row.
Rice, F. Philip (1984). Panfishing. New York: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-943822-25-4.
Malo, John (1981). Fly-Fishing for Panfish. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press Inc.. ISBN 0875182089.
Perich, Shawn (2006). Catching Panfish: Tactics for Sunfish, Crappies, Yellow Perch and White Bass. Chanhassen, MN: Creative Publishing International, Incorporated. ISBN 1589232593.
Gruenwald, Tom (1997). Panfish-Hooked on Ice Fishing II. Secrets to Catching Winter Fish, for Beginners to Experts.. Iola, WI: Krause Publications. ISBN 0873414896.
Dalrymple, Byron (1947). Panfish-The Art and Enjoyment of Light Tackle Fishing for the Common Fishes of the United States. New York: McGraw Hill. .
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