On Mar 9, 1:29 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:
> 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
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> >>>>> On Mar 5, 11:52 am, "cybercat" > wrote:
> >>>>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
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> ...
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> >>>>>> On Mar 5, 12:26 am, wrote:
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> >>>>>>> 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?
>


My son caught one that weighed about 45 pounds - he's 6' tall, and
holding it by the head up by his chest, the tail was on the ground.
After he drove around with it in the back of his truck for a half hour
or so, and weighing it, he took it back down to the river and after a
while, it just sort of swam away. They'll live a while out of water,
so he didn't really hurt it. It wouldn't have tasted good,
anyway. ;-)

N.