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Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In article .net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
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>> Hmmmm. I love catfish, and I've never noticed a "muddy taste". I've
>> never had home-caught catfish though...just store-bought; I wonder if
>> that's the difference.

>
> Maybe. I've caught catfish from the same lake that tasted different that
> way. There were three species in the lakes I used to fish. White,
> channel and yellow bullhead (mudcat). My wife swears they all tasted
> muddy, but I think they all tasted like catfish. I quit fishing for them
> thirty years ago. I like them but she doesn't. Game over.


I remember my dad talking about catching bullheads; when I was wee (up to
four years old, in this case) he and my granddad fished together from time
to time. I didn't know that "bullhead" was another name of or kind of
catfish.


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