Back 1981 er so I was checking fishing one day around Akron and Lock Eight. As I drove down the Lock Eight road I saw a car parked off the road a ways near and old cypress pond. I drove back there to check it out. I found and old(real old) black woman with prolly 7-8 kids fishing with homemade poles and lines.

I asked if they were having any luck, the old woman pointed to a bucket. I looked in and there were prolly 30 4-7" grinnels in there, swirling and sliding around.

I asked her what they do with em, she said "we eats em"...

I asked if they were any good?

She replied "no"......

I left.

He does not drink beer often but when he does he prefers dos equis

I've eat it. Not that bad, not that good. I've paid money in restaraunts for worse fish though. Some Tilapia is inedible.

I don't understand why people love tilapia. They are just as much a trash fish as anything else. A lot of places use them to keep the weeds down in sewage treatment ponds

that brings back memories when i tournament fished on hatchey river in west tn we caught them on man's black grape jelly worms as fast as you could get it in the water, that was one ugly fish the grinner. the first one i caught showed me why u don't lip them:) mouth full of needles.they would tear up DuPont 20 pound stren like it was sewing thread.

Gotta agree with Todd on this one. I always had trouble even giving away a grinnel. I once tried to fillet one with an electric knife and was gonna just try it. The meat would not hold together to make a fillet. I see why some call it cotton fish. I finally just gave up and threw it away.

we call that a choupic, that fish needs to stay alive until you clean it, if not the meat will turn to mush, that is some of the best fish to eat if you know what your doing, being from south louisiana I grew up eating that