Deep Fried Snook Fingers

I know the season is about to close but if you do get a keeper
and you liked fried food try this receipe, it's been in my family awhile.
31 1/2 inch Ice for this snook was provided by JD Hammer

I forgot to take alot of pictures because I was cooking.
This is most of the stuff you'll need.

So first take flour and corn meal and pour it into a zip lock bag.
just keep the mix with more flour in it than corn meal.
Then add lemon pepper in the zip lock also.
Then some everglades seasoning in the zip lock.
Shake up the zip lock and mix it all up.
It will look kinda like this.

Then take your snook filet and cut it into fingers like this.

After you cut each finger wash it off in cold water and set it on a plate
with a paper towel on top of the plate.
After you have all the snook fingers on the plate season them with
salt and pepper and if you like lemon you can squeeze some on all of
the fingers. Then put alittle bit of everglades seasoning on the fingers as well.
Flip all the fingers over and repete process.
Then place your snook fingers into the bag of flour and corn meal
mix, then zip it up and shake the bag covering the snook fingers on all sides.
Then If you like hush puppies mix those up with water or milk.
My wife mixed these bad boys up for me but she used milk.

I always cook the hush puppies up first, this way the oil has a flavor in it
before you start cooking your snook fingers.
I cook with vege oil around 375 F on the temp.
When cooking the snook you'll know its ready when the bubbles start to slow
down popping up to the top and the fingers are a light golden color.
kinda like this.

This is all I could take a picture of everyone ate everything so fast.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say when you take your hush puppies out
and snook fingers out the best way to keep them hot and crisp is
to put them into a brown paper bags. But double the paper bags up.
This will absorb most of the oil and keep everything nice and hot.
My uncle says you can use this reciepe on these calico's also.
I'll post it up when I catch enough to cook.

I use this on toadfish also, I'll post again next time I get something
worth cooking.

After you eat this you'll never stop level winding