Wild sea-bass, (not the fish-farmed crap, that tastes like blotting paper), is the best tasting fish to me. We used to beach-fish them at Chesil, using peeler crab. What a fighter that fish is in the surf! Out bait fishing in the Solent, fresh mackerel take some beating for taste and good sport too, fished with very light tackle, not hauled in on 50lb line and a string of feathers. We used to cook them in foil over the outboard exhaust pipe. 2 hours later on shore, that elusive taste has gone stale. On my favourite list too is sea-trout. I also like oysters, though not strictly speaking a fish. I had a couple of dozen from my old friend Georges this Xmas, big ones he gathered in Brittany. Roasted in the shell over the embers of a fire till they open, absolutement impec!
Alan
PS. Only one of them worked!
