To cook at home:
When someone else is cooking, all the above plus:
There are few fish I truly hate (mackerel being one), bot those are my favorites.
Mackerel is an oily fish which is strongly flavoured - a love it or hate it thing. I love it, it’s amazing on the BBQ.
Halibut is a firm white fish with a lovely texture.
That’s interesting. Usually people who like sardines like mackerel, and people who hate sardines hate mackerel. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone like one but not the other.
The main fish I hate is carp. There’s only one preparation I can tolerate it in, and that’s a spicy Hungarian fish soup, with extra spice, but even there I prefer other freshwater fish. I don’t understand why people eat that fish and why it’s so popular around the holidays in Eastern Europe. (Carp is the traditional fish for Christmas eve dinner.)
Either you have not really had carp or you managed to taste to world’s dirtiest catfish. I’ve had both. It’s true that catfish from a bar ditch is less than ideal, but as bad as carp? I don’t think so.
Ever had smoked carp? It’s decent. Pretty much the only way I would ever eat carp.
The OP is insane, though. Walleye is meh?!?!?!. Not much tastes better than walleye.
Yep, I’ve had some very muddy tasting catfish. It can get pretty bad sometimes. Just google “muddy taste catfish” and you’ll see what I mean. Yes, I’ve had it as bad as carp and, yes, I’ve had a lot more carp than I’ve cared to in my life. Some carp is not as muddy as others, but it all has that “swamp” taste to it. For awhile, I thought all catfish was like this, too, but the last few times I’ve bought catfish, it’s actually been a very clean, tasty fish.
Ya know, I do vaguely remember having smoked carp. It’s not that bad.
And, yeah, walleye has got to be one of the tastiest, if not tastiest, freshwater fish I’ve had. Too bad it’s nearly $20/lb ($17.99 last I checked) at the few supermarkets that carry it around here.
Basa is also called Swai, depending on which Asian market you shop, and it takes seasonings very well. Try it with lemon pepper and cayenne mix. It’s not at all ‘fishy’ which is a plus, imo.
Recipe, please?
Love:
Tilapia
Salmon
Red Snapper
Dover Sole
Hate:
Catfish
Swai
All you can eat, baby, right here! 
I love mackerel (it was also always our cats’ favorite, when I was growing up), and I’ve enjoyed sardines when prepared in restaurants. Out of the can, they’re just too oily and bony.
There’s a fine line between carp and crap.
Turbot used to be commonly available at Trader Joe’s, but I haven’t seen it in a while.
I once got a South African fish from Whole Foods called Kingklip, and it was tasty. I later read online that it is actually a hideous eel ordinarily covered in thick mucus, and my wife has banned it from our home henceforth.
Eating farmed catfish is really the only way to avoid the risk of muddy taste. You can catch decent-tasting catfish, but it’s more of a gamble.
The OP only listed white fish, so it’s odd that he likes some and not others. Walleye is dynamite, though I’ve only eaten it on fishing trips. It was minutes old and just delicious. Makes me miss Canada and the upper midwest.
I love skate wing and monkfish. If I see either on the menu, I usually order it.
Skate is fantastic if it’s fresh. Once it gets a day or two old though…
Do yourself a favor and don’t look up the digestive system of skate…
The walleye wasn’t bad. But the tilapia I almost threw up on.
That sucks. All the tilapia I’ve ever eaten is rather like generic white fish.
Isn’t carp a ‘peasant’ food - big, dumb, lazy (the fish, not the peasants!)? One big carp will feed a family, the smaller tastier fish that are harder to catch would go to the upper classes.
When I was in Canada years ago, I bought a can of Arctic char as a souvenier, and it sat around as such things often do until one night there was nothing else in the house to eat but cereal. OMG. It was just HEAVENLY in my sandwich. I haven’t seen it since, but if I do I’m cleaning off the shelf.
When I got married I got a copy of Fish Cookery by James Beard. That was so long ago, 2/3 of the fish listed are endangered species or extinct!
It can get pretty shitty. I’m not really one who gives too much a damn where all my fish comes from, but I’ve started to stay away from Asian and Southeast Asian fish in general as I’ve had real issues with quality being all over the map. Tilapia is also another one that gets “muddy” tasting. But, even at is best, it’s just a flavorless lump of protein. I’ll eat it, but it’s dull. Swai/Basa is usually even worse.
Marine: pompano, bonito tuna, grouper, silver anchovy, most flat fish I like.
Fresh water: native catfish, kanduli (salt water catfish), rainbow trout, tilapia.