Nothing quite like the taste of a walleye caught in the Canadian shield.

This might be interesting though..........we much prefer to eat smallmouths than walleye in the Lake St. Clair, St. Clair river and Lake Erie watersheds. It's not that they are bad, the water quality is very good nowadays and has been for quite some time. The "white bellied" walleyes are just a different tasting fish than the "yellow bellied" eyes caught in canoe country.

We like the smallies and find them excellent eating certainly not to be compared with their big mouth counterparts. Of course ANY red meat on any fish I catch is trimmed away.

I am also extremely fond of eating northerns, especially those with a little heft to them. A 30" is generally worth cleaning as the bones are developed enough to be able to NOT cut through them so easily as with the smaller ones. Small pike = hassle in my book. I love the meaty firmness of pike and think they have a good flavor as well.