George Shirley wrote:
> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:24:27 -0500, Kate Connally >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> SteveB wrote:
>>>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 5, 11:52 am, "cybercat" > wrote:
>>>>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 5, 12:26 am, wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do I do simple fried (breaded) catfish? I don't have a deep
>>>>>>> fryer,
>>>>>>> Any
>>>>>>> favorite recipes out there? Thanks.
>>>>>>> Soak them for a couple hours in salted water to get rid of any
>>>>>> lingering strong fishy taste;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh nooooo! If you need to do this, you don't like cat fish.
>>>>> Operative word: strong.
>>>>>
>>>>> N.
>>>>>
>>>>> "lingering strong fishy taste"? From catfish? The varieties of
>>>>> catfish
>>>>> have the "fishy" taste related to the water they live in. If yours
>>>>> taste
>>>>> this way, you may want to get it from different waters. Catfish from
>>>>> flowing waters have a very light fishy taste.
>>>> Well, if you have "clean" flowing waters that is great.
>>>> I sure wouldn't want to eat catfish from the rivers around
>>>> here (Pittsburgh). I prefer lake catfish to river catfish.
>>>> Kate
>>> I can "one up" you on Pittsburg catfish. When I was in Vietnam 40
>>> years ago, I
>>> saw the natives fishing for catfish in sewage channels alongside the
>>> roads.
>>> Sorry, but you brought that memory to mind. Actually fairly disgusting.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hve you seen those pictures floating cyber space about the giant
>> catfish in the Mekong River. I wonder if Napalm and all the other
>> crap dropped over there in the name of Communism and 'Justice and
>> American Way' made them that big or if it were just run of the mill
>> Vietnamese doodoo.
>> -ginny
>>
>>
> Neither, they're naturally that big. NatGeo channel has been running a
> series on "Monster Fish." Very interesting actually. The Mekong giant
> catfish are being over fished by the locals in Nam and Thailand and,
> thusly, are endangered. Takes a long time for fish to get that big.
>
> By the way, catfish in American waters can get very large also, I've
> seen 150 lb catfish coming out of Lake Houston, a water supply lake
> caused by damming the San Jacinto river. Historically a 300 lb catfish
> was taken in the eighteen hundreds from the Mississippi River at
> Natchez, MS.

I've never seen big ones in nature but I went to a pet store
once that specialized in exotic pets like snakes, lizards, etc.
I was with a friend who had lizards and she was visiting from
out of the area and heard about this super pet store and wanted
to check it out. So, anyway, we walk in and there's a large tank
in the entrance way with several kinds of fish but some of them
were huge catfish. They actually kind of grossed me out. They
look positively evil and scary at that size. I'm used to the
small ones but those giant ones - hope I never meet one while
I'm swimming in a lake or something. Sheesh. ;-)

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?