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Hey guys! Need Your Catfish Recipe Hep

zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
edited January 2006 in The Fishing Hole!
Catfish is the only fish we have never really 'mastered '
in the cookin' department!

I've never gotten beyond the 'muddy' taste!

My wife refuses to even try anymore.

Any 'hep' out there - as they say in Texas.
[:D][:D][:D]

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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, got a couple


    1. old bathtub or hole filled with water for a few days. Just like turtles

    2. 7up, soke the cuts in 7up

    3. the bleed out, cut the tails off and let them bleed out, I have tried this with some lake catfish, didn't work.


    Now for ponds and such, I never really do anything, usually ponds are clean enough and that is the only time I catch and keep catfish. I do like catfishing though, its good fun.
  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We soak the fillets in salt water with just a dash of lemon juice in the fridge overnight!...Love em![:p]
  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ...ya'll aren't eating yellow (mudcats) are you? Sounds like it if you have to do something more to them other than fillet. Blue catfish, channel cat or fine, w/o doing anything special. Their the only cats I know much about as for as taste.

    Someone posted a bait recipe here the other day, I need to go print it, it don't stink! Sounds like it would work too. I just catfish at the ranch lake to rest from the shooting and bass fishing...[:D] The channel cat up there are plentiful and big, never did much cat fishing other than there...going to give that bait recipe a try soon. I'm sure I'll have the other part of my camera and have it figuerd out by the time these 30mph winds stop...and then I'll post some pics...[;)]

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    hopefully in one, two, about 3 weeks, I think,...one, two, ahh nevermind...


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  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Bloviator
    ...ya'll aren't eating yellow (mudcats) are you? Sounds like it if you have to do something more to them other than fillet. Blue catfish, channel cat or fine, w/o doing anything special. Their the only cats I know much about as for as taste.



    HAHA, you don't know the lake I fish at. It is mud, even some blue gill and crappie have a little muddy taste, saugeye and walleye on the other hand don't. During the winter though, all the fish taste a lot better because the mud is at the bottom not stirred by all the boaters.

    I wouldn't ever eat a yellow belly, I don't think I have ever caught one big enought to eat....
  • pointman821pointman821 Member Posts: 872
    edited November -1
    you can also try not eating catfish over 4 or 5 lbs. the bigger they get, the muddier and fishier they taste.
  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ...thank god for clear water. I guess I'm used to adjusting for clear water, and got used to it. Ive heard muddy water=muddy tasting
    catfish,...guess it's true...[:(]

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Marinate the fish in buttermilk or lemon juice for 30 minutes before cooking....

    The fisheries dept says the "muddy" taste comes from blue-green algae...
  • yearofspideryearofspider Member Posts: 1,657 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fry the fillets in butter and a splash of beer. Season with garlic(minced or powder)and cayenne pepper(the more, the better). You won't tatse mud anymore[:D][:p][:D]
  • EqualizerEqualizer Member Posts: 445 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1 1/2 pounds catfish
    4 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
    4 tablespoons yellow mustard
    yellow cornmeal

    Cut catfish into small thin pieces. Mix hot sauce with mustard. Dip strips into this mixture; let marinate 2 - 4 hours. Then dip in yellow cornmeal; fry in hot oil until brown.
    Serves 4
  • EqualizerEqualizer Member Posts: 445 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BARBEQUE CATFISH

    1 lemon, sliced
    1/4 c. oil
    2 tbsp. mustard
    1 tbsp. hot sauce
    1/2 c. tomato sauce
    2 lbs. catfish fillets

    Mix together oil, mustard, hot sauce and tomato sauce in 13x9 pan. Add lemon slices and catfish (turning to coat). Marinate catfish one hour, turning once. Grill until done, basting with marinade if desired.
  • dipitsdipits Member Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I soak in Arm & Hammer . Same thing I keep open box in the frig. . to keep smealing fresh.
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