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House Autry for us. We prefer the “hot”.
Their hush puppy mix is damn good too.

For me? Half flour, half corn meal, a little salt, a bit of baking powder, water, what's left from breading the fish, shape into balls, and fry!

I used the red bag of Louisiana fish fry, I think it was called Cajun, tonight on a bunch of spadefish filets. It was excellent.

These were the first spadefish I've fried, damn they were good.

Wth is spadefish? Pics? Ya it’s my favorite, Grey cod, ling, halibut, damn good stuff. Nice and light. 👊🏻

They are very similar to triggerfish. I'm pretty sure spadefish are an Atlantic thing, Jud.

We hammered them the other day fishing a wreck off of Chincoteague.

They were great eating

Oh ya, never seen one. Thanks for posting 👍

Tried the cornmeal and flour mix, turned out good but not much flavor. I used old bay, lemon, and cocktail sauce and it turned out great. I will try to locate the House Autry mix next fry. Thanks.

I like Pioneer corn meal.I mix 8 cups of corn meal and 3 cups of whole wheat flour.I don't season my corn meal mix,I season the fish.When you cook the fish,the juices of the fish are cooked out and in the process it seasons the fish breading.You use a lot less seasoning this way.I like to mix a raw egg in the raw seasoned fish before I bread it.

Thanks for the tip Baldhunter

zatarains Crispy southern. Won’t find better

A friend cooked some awhile back using this,turned out pretty damn good! Truth is there’s a lot of good stuff out there, but if the oil isn’t the right temp it will turn out like sheet.

Blue box Louisiana. Mix this w Louisiana Cajun is good too.

Tried Andy's once but way too salty. Uncle Bucks from BPS wasn't bad the few times I had it.

Homemade, flour, cornmeal and seasoning.

Sometimes drag fish through a milk & egg mixture and sometimes not before breading.

Sometimes soak in beer for a bit before breading.

What kind of fish?

Crappie, walleye, spoonbill, catfish, white bass. Smaller largemouth.

Nuts too. Even drag spuds through fish fry at times. Gives em a little crunch.

Sounds like you have a nice variety of fish down there.


I bought a jar of oysters the other day and dipped them in Pride Of the West batter mix.


You mix it with water....but I reckon it would be okay with beer too.

I normally use a dry breading, just how we do it. Rinse fish, pat dry then into breading which is normally in a big zip lock or larger bowl w lid. Toss a few pieces in, shake them up, then into the hot oil.

Don't dry much when I soak em in beer. Out of the beer soak and into the bag or bowl to be coated.

Have used a beer batter a few times though.

I have also put fillets in a large bowl, squeezed a schitt load of mustard in work em around til coated good with mustard then shake em in the cornmeal type fry. Doesn't add a ton of mustard flavor but does put a little bit more of a crispy coating on them.

May help the cousin move this weekend but we are thinking about trying to squeeze a small fish fry in.

Will get you some pics.

I have screwed up fish and chicken when I did not use enough salt or spice. So I'm with you on the fact that it can handle more than some realize! I don't know anything about Martha White though.

Golden dipt and about 40% crushed Panko mixed together. Panko in a bag run rolling pin over to crush, makes killer breading!

My uncle takes corn flakes, crushes the pizz out of them and drags his fish through an egg/milk mix then coats the filets with the crushed corn flakes.

Very good coating.

What ever you do.....don't accidentally reach for the Frosted Flakes!