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JW_Halverson:
The muddy taste is due to compounds with a stupid name geosmin, pronounced "gee-OZZ-oh-min".  Translates from latin meaning (earth smell), think of how mud smells or how the air smells after a rain.  It ends up in fish due mainly because of bluegreen algae and a few other bugs.  We had to deal with that in tilapia production.  The trick with tilapia (and farm raised fish in general, including cats) is to get them in cooler clearer water and don't feed 'em a few days in a row.  Then ya gotta make sure they ain't eatin' their own poop, either.  All fish have some of this in them and purging the live fish in fresh clean water flushes it out. 

Now if you can just get those catfish to come up to the pumphouse and drink lotsa fresh clean water before inhaling your stankbait....

servicebeary:
so we can just throw em in the stock tank for a few days with an anti poop eating mesh setup keeping them away from the bottom?  good to know :)  If I lived where they were muddy, I'd have a tank with a bubbler for oxygen, and just put fresh water in it for the few days of decontamination.  Then go get a big batch, get em home with a cooler full of water and there you go.  As a kid I used to get em home alive with no water on cool evenings, but they only lived a couple days in tanks without any means of oxygen production whether it be algae or a bubbler.

mullet:
 That's why I like to catch them in the river. The water is flowing and I wait till the rainy season is over.

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