In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > <lol>
> >
> > 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.

Geezus... :-(

I once ran across a newbie to fishing trying to gut a live trout.
Needless to say, the fish was "struggling" <sigh>

I showed him how to kill it like mom and dad had taught me by bashing it
on the back of the head with the handle of the skinning knife, them
demonstrated how to gut it.

I left him with the parting remark: "How would YOU like to be gutted
alive. Fish are living animals".

I said it quietly. Tends to make more of a lasting impression.

People...... <shudders>
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