"Ding - Dong Daddy" > wrote in message
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Cheri wrote:

> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > You are used to eating salt water fish? stick to that. I know
> > you like fresh water catfish though that's even trashier fish
> > than talipia. Catfish are creepy to me. I always hated when I
> > caught one...I didn't even want to touch it.
>
>
> Once when we were fishing in the Sacramento River, dh caught a fairly
> large
> catfish (which I used to love pan-fried) when he cut it open to clean
> there
> was the most god awful smell coming from it, so awful that even after all
> these years I remember it, never have I eaten catfish since. Don't know
> what
> was wrong with it, but OMG it was simply disgusting. I like salmon, cod,
> etc., but not so much freshwater fish anymore.


Catfish are bottom feeders (they are akin to Gary, lol...), hence the
stench. I grew up by the Mississippi, catfish caught by the commercial
fisherfolk were placed into big troughs of circulating fresh water and fed
food pellets for a period of time to purge all the crap. Same with carp...

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Best
Greg


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That is true, however we have had many catfish in our lives before that, and
never have I smelled something like that in any fish, and hope never to
again.

Cheri