Roberta wrote:

> I have to disagree about catfish :P The stuff my nephew catches in
> South Carolina tastes like mud *blech*. Part of it may be a mental thing
> - I grew up in Michigan, knew a lot of people that fished - I didn't
> know anyone that would eat catfish. It was a "trash" fish and got
> thrown back. I haven't had farm raised - that may be better. (apparently

Are you sure about that? I don't know anyone who considers a
perfect-size catfish "trash." And farmed is worse because of the
farming conditions. Fresh-water catfish from an unpolluted river
shouldn't taste muddy or fishy at all - it's great.

Walleye are good, too - I have some in the freezer from Canada. I
never eat farm-raised fish if I can help it - I don't eat fish from the
Great Lakes, either, if I know that's where it came from. I love
Pacific salmon, but most of what we get here are Atlantic.

If you never go to a southern fish fry, with fresh-caught catfish,
you're missing a good feed. ;-)

N.