it isn't until you eat some of the freshwater game fish like walleye, pike, perch and bass that you realize how really superior it is to salmonids...Walleye (or pickerel) are by far my favourite and pan frying them while the heart still beats in the gut pile is heavenly...the pike have large y-bones and are quite slimmy (the slime is a bit smelly too) but still great....Bass should be gutted as soon as they are caught to prevent strong stomach acids from tainting the meat....Perch will sometimes have small worm cysts in the meat especially during the warmer season but otherwise excellent table fare