"limey" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Where I grew up in NC certain species of catfish were called 'walkers' they
would hump up on their front fins and flop out of the tub and across the
ground to get back into the water.
-ginny