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Catfish

oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
How much would a 25 inch channel cat weigh? (I think it was a channel cat) Went fishing for bass and was throwing a two blade spinner and that sucker latched onto it.

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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's whats for lunch with seasoned fries. Take that you Southern Boys.[:D][:D]
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anybody out there raise catfish?
    Mine are all "Channel Cat".
    Been thinking of putting in some "Blues".
    Will they co-exist?Or will one end up
    killing out the other?

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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any cat fishermen in the group? I've caught a few in my lifetime of course, usually when after something else, but I've had a revelation in the last few weeks. My brother and I have been going after them specifically recently, night fishing with cut shad as bait. Whoo Nellie! Talk about a thrill! We've been getting some big ones. Last week a 41 pounder, last night we got three that were over 20 pounds. We turn them loose, under the assumption that the big ones aren't very good table fare, but what a fight they put up! I have a new vocation.

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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    My Grandpaw used to catch Channel cat with his bare hands. He was quite a man by anyones standards though. My mother has a picture of him with one thet is almost 6 ft. It is hung and he is standing beside it. He was around 6ft 5in and the fish is almost as long as he is tall.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    They get mighty big in the Colorado! I love going out there.


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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Myself and a friend from work go to the Vermillion River quite often. We use Bluegills for bait. We've gotten several this summer in the thirty pound range. When I was still living in Texas, I used to go nighttime fishing for Flathead at Lake O' The Pines. Got a few out of there that were over sixty pounds. Of course that was over a span of about twelve years.

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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The wife and kids and oh yea me too fish dem all the time........
    poles,jug line and trott lines............Yea your right the
    big ones or strong tasting fried..but good cooked in a sauce...
    A tomato sauce......which is a etouffe.............
    cant beat dem 10-12" channel cats.................

    coonass

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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    A women in McQueeney, Tx, caught a 68 pounder below the dam about 10 years ago- I beleive it's still the record on the Guadalupe river.
    The smaller ones are more tasty if you bleed them. I do well on earthworms and shrimp.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good lord! Those are big catfish. There is a lot of lake country in Northern Indiana and in Michigan. My sister's family is on Coldwater Lake this week, in fact, and Mom & Dad went up for a couple days. They caught some good sized lake catfish, but didn't keep them all because nobody likes to clean catfish that well. If you've done it, you know what I mean. They are tougher to clean than your average bluegill, perch or bass. But I love the taste of fresh-caught catfish. And yes, I've caught my share, and they do put up a good fight.

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The really big ones you pull from logs with your arm dont taste that good.I have seen them over 150 pounds in certain areas.About the best things I have seen to catch Catfish is Crawfish,Shrimp,and Oysters.I have caght more Catfish than any other fish and its the only fish I care to eat.I love some good Catfish.

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Eat the big catfish. Cut 'em into small filets and steaks. Cook 'em however you will, but I go for deep frying.


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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    As far as I'm concerned, there's only one way to eat catfish....rolled in cornmeal, deep fried, and with home fries and hush puppies on the side.
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I might try eating one of the big ones sometime. The Cajun etouffe sounds good, although I normally like my fish fried with hush puppies austin247 style.

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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oldgunner........I must of been a little on the sauce the other
    night......etouffee's are crawfish or shrimp etc........Those big
    fish are best in a couvillon...or baked....I'll post a few recipes later....

    coonass

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good idea, those recipes. Too bad I didn't hear about this sooner, because my sister just got back from the lake and I hear they threw a few catfish back to avoid cleaning them. (I know, sacrilege....)

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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My grandfather was an avid fisherman. He showed me something one time to do when cleaning the bigger ones. After you get them filleted, there's some darker colored flesh on the side where the top half of the fillet meets with the bottom half. Cut that off also. There's a lot of oil in this. If you get rid of this before cooking it will get rid of a lot of the stronger taste.


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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I mainly bass fish now. Every year I catch a dozen or so Catfish on
    spinner baits or other diving type lures by accident.

    When I was in College there was a great little river and lake close by. We used to net Shad minnows and just slaughter the catfish with them.

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brth729 has it right. If you clean off all the red veins and meat then cut the meat up in small chunks it will be white as snow and delicious. I like it dipped in egg and milk then rolled in a seasoned corn meal batter and then deep fat fried. Of course someone once told me you can deep fat fry horse poop and it would taste good.LOL I've never tried that. The size of the fish doesn't matter if they are cleaned well. A friend of mine caught a 76 pounder on a limb line using a 6 inch goldfish for bait. I have never seen one of those 150 pound log hiders.

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They have a video out about the ones in logs and there is a place I beleive its in Missisippi that has gudes that take you to do it.You get in the water locate a log get down there shove yur arm in let that joker bite down on your arm and pull it out.They get HUGE they had one on the video that was 180 pounds.I will find the name of the video and guide service and post it you have got to see these things.

    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 08/11/2002 20:00:16
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They are Flathead Catfish.Thes biggest ones I see on record is 214 pounds caught in Texas.Take a look at the Flathead cath records and the Field and Stream website and search for the article "The Catfish Men" it taslks of the size and the Mississippi Arm Method.

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cat fish records: Texas flathead = 114# caught in 1976

    Texas bluecat = 116# caught in 1985
    These records were updated 08/08/02

    Ok. flathead = 71.49#

    Ks. flathead = 123# caught on rod and reel in Elk city lake. Some commercial fishermen have netted flatheads nearly 140#s

    The world record bluecat was caught in the Osage river in Missouri and weighed 117#'s

    150#'s Maybe 215#'s BS


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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Channel Cat taste like crap no matter what.
    Flathead are great. The trick is to sever the vein and bleed them fast. We hang them in a tree by their jaw, then slit the tail almost completely through and bleed them. Cut out all of the crap and pure white meat is left. You may throw out a little more meat this way but you get better tasting fish. 10' bullheads are great BAIT for big catfish.

    One way to cook them is to roll them in some Jiffy cornbread/corn muffin mix, then fry them.
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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    Those big cats are good to eat. Just cut away all the reddish fat. Filet the white meat into small chunks and deep fry. I live the in catfish captial of Missouri. Several river basins and Mark Twain Lake, rated third in the country. A lot of the boys "noodle" the big ones from holes and hollow logs. They had a good year with several over 50 lbs caught. We are having a community fish fry on the 30th. The "season" has ended on noodling as the spawning season is over. I say "season" because noodling is illegal in Missouri. All but two of the seven states that border MO have recongnize hand fishing as a sport. Not our backward Conservation dept.

    Twins: I have a farm pond with 5 to 7 pound channel catfish and they are real good eating. Like with most catfish, we bread the filets in cornmeal (white) and deep fry them in peanut oil.


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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Man..All dem recipe soundin' mighty fine. Coonass, I wanna try some of your sauces especially. I'll be looking for them, don't forget.

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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I grew up on a saltwater bay,and them freshies
    look to much like them salties for me!

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    While I prefer deep fried nuggets other alternative to fryig is to broil a Catfish Fillet with butter and a fresh orange wedge squeezed over the top of it a couple times during cooking.Man it is good.Lemon is pretty good but not quite as good as the Orange.My miatke on the 214# but if you didnt ntice 2 is right next to 1 on the keyboard so i was just a typo.Try the Broiled Orange Catfish it is worth a fillet.I have some good cajun sauce recipes I can post but Im want to get the CoonAss's as well. will put mine up just the ssame.I got some from my Grandmother before she died for Etouffe,Gumbo,Roue,and Ondouee.I know my spelling is way off on a cople but thats ok the recipes make up for it.The Etouffe and Gumbo are excellent.

    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 08/13/2002 01:32:09
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