On Sat 29 Dec 2007 12:21:22p, limey told us...

> Michael (Piedmont) wrote:
>> Catfish - How to Catch 'Em and Cook 'Em
>> By Pat Leff Hartwell
>> (As published in Utah Fishing magazine)
>>
>> "How did you catch that thing? What do you do with it?"
>>
>> These are two of the most common questions my husband and I are
>> asked when we come into dock with a livewell full of catfish. The old
>> opinion sticks, no matter how worldly and informed people become, that
>> catfish are a trash fish and therefore not fit for eating.
>>
>> They are not inedible, folks, and you don't have to be poor and
>> living on the Bayou to enjoy them.
>> Michael2590
>
> We like farm-raised catfish - I use a flour>egg and water>panko coating
> and they're delicious that way.
>
> However, we've also caught our share of catfish in a large pond/lake
> where I used to work. My husband and sons would go outside at night,
> drive some electrical something into the ground, then wait for all the
> worms to come up in panic. Off we'd go the next morning. We caught
> quite a lot of catfish but my kids and thought they were so
> repulsive-looking that we wouldn't eat them and we'd give them to other
> fishermen, to their delight.
>
> Well, we wondered what we were missing so brought home the next batch
> and threw the string of fish into the laundry tray to deal with later.
> We then totally forgot them - in horror, I remembered them around
> midnight and thought, "to hxxx with'em". Horror of horrors - nobody
> told me they had a secondary breathing system! The next morning, those
> things were breathing in big gulps, staring at me, whiskers waving,
> saying, "Save me, save me!". That's when I learned that I was a
> totally merciless human being. They made good garden fertilizer,
> though.
>
>

Dora! I never knew you were so heartless. The poor little creatures.

--
Wayne Boatwright

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