10 THE RIDE
He was busy reeling in a sun perch from the riverbank, when the first of a series of visitors appeared, bouncing down the cabin driveway in a dusty GMC SUV of dubious utility in this terrain. While the driver of the vehicle spotted him on the riverbank and bounced the additional yards of potholes to his location, John took the opportunity to place the smallish fish in the wicker-holding basket.
Sun perch are not big fish, and they are as bony as hell, but you can deep-fry them, and eat them without worry about bones. They are the Razorbacks of the fish world. You cannot make a fillet of a fish that thin, but you can treat the whole thing like a fillet. Skin it, gut it, behead it, and put it on to fry. There is a point between done, and too well done, when everything is eatabl
