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Night of the Living Catfish
DanaM:
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--- Quote from: DanaM on March 22, 2010, 03:27:52 pm ---What kind of cats are they? Channels? If so they look a bit different in color than the Yooper Channels.
Wouldn't eat one of the local ones for a million bucks yuck :P
Anyway congrats looks like ya all had fun eh
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Dana ...Catish is Catfish...unless it's Farm Raised ...then it's Trash....... :P...The Channel and Flathead Cats down here are a Yellowish Color...they tell me it's due to the water Color...aint Clear and ice Cold like back Home
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Catfish are bottom feeders so here in the river they are full of all them nasty chemicals that were dumped in the river, Mercury and PCB to name a few, eat em at your own risk eh :o
I did try one years ago that I caught in the Escanaba River but it just tasted like mud, maybe there is a secret to cooking them ??? As kids we ate bullheads that we caught from clean water
when ya peel their skin off you have beautiful pink meat just like a trout :)
El Destructo:
Dana...Channel Cats...Flatheads....and Blues are not Scavengers...they are not Bottom Suckers.....They Feed primarily at night using taste buds in the sensitive barbels and skin to locate prey...... Although they normally feed on the bottom..... Channel Cats also will feed at the surface and at mid-depth...... Major foods are insects.... crayfish..... clams..... crustaceans and fish..... Baby Channel Cats eat invertebrates... but larger ones eatminnows and small fish too..... Contrary to popular belief carrion is not their normal food.....
Hillbilly:
Yeah, what Mike said. Catfish aren't necessarily bottom feeders. We've caught them on these jugs with a foot of line over twenty-thirty feet of water. And the flatheads are very predatory-the best bait to use to fish for flatheads is live fish. Around here at least, catfish don't pick up as much mercury as largemouth bass and walleye. And Dana, any bad taste in a catfish is usually in the skin. Fillet them and get that skin off, and they taste about like flounder. I like catfish better than trout for eating.
Mechslasher:
growing up, we would dissect the stomachs of 30-40+ pound catfish to see what was in them. out of one flathead, i remember we pulled two mice, a crawfish, and two 12" white bass. we started to fillet the bass, but didn't. still, to this day, can't figure out where it got the mice. here's a pic of one of my noodles.
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jamie:
man i miss eaten catfish!!
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