Puckster wrote on May 3^rd, 2011 at 1:51am:

I think another factor is cultural.  I caught a whitefish in Pickerel Lake once...looked like a rough fish, almost like a carp.

Similar experience on a canda trip out side of the Q. Caught 2 whitefish which to my then uneducated eye looked like a cross between a shad and a carp and promptly released them. When I got back to the dock I saw a canadian couple with a few of the shad/carp on a stringer so I had to ask. In their opinion, whitefish was the only fish to keep for eating purposes. I still haven't tried it other than smoked but live and learn. Or is it learn and live?

J