Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:

>>I learned when I was 9 or 10 when we were visiting some friends of may
>>parents' down at Lake of the Ozarks. Bluegill, crappie, bass. I balked
>>at the catfish, though. They gave me a major case of the heebie jeebies.
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> <lol>
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> To me, catfish are best gutted and skinned, then fried whole!

Somebody told my idiot uncle that it was easier to skin catfish while
they were still alive. So he takes a big catfish, nails its head to a
telephone pole and proceeds to try to skin the damned thing while it's
still flopping around. Gave me nightmares for weeks.