……….. if a bullhead is the same thing we call a mudcat… even won’t eat one if the ebt card still has 10 cents on it

Save the water. Nothing like cold boiled weiner water to start the day.

… my goodness.. I didn’t intend for this to turn into a humanitarian mission… but y’all yanks need to understand that cornmeal is what you batter fish with … it’s like grits stuck to fish which in turn sticks to your ribs so a man can get a little work done

… I might end up going to heaven after all now lol

Yukon Jeff eats stuff like that all the time.

…. And I’m at a loss on what to do with these wiener water chugging eskimos other than to ask June to exorcise them or something?

All the ladies are like that.

… I didn’t even see that one you copied ADC … these canadians are even more delicate than they taught us in school… sorry Ohiowolverine .. didn’t realize you were replying to the lesser yanks lol

What are you using for bait for them channel cats Savell? Unless it's top secret....

Bout the only way I can eat trout. Either smoked or canned.
I really miss catching cats and having a good fish fry. Cornmeal, duck comander seasoning and hot oil.
Never caught any bream but bluegill and crappies were cooked the same way.

Looks like you gottem riled up real good, savell. I do love me a mess of fiddlers. As to the bones, when I get through eating them, you would have a perfect European mount for the wall; not a bone missing. And you won't see a head on one of them, either.

… worms the boys dig out from around the woodpile then walk back to the creek lol … when we go after the blues on the big water… we cast net shad and fish them shallow April & may. … then run live bream on anchored jugs later in the summer when they go deep

.. lol .. yessir…. Kept a bottle of vinegar on the table when the kids were young… don’t need it anymore ..they’re pros now like any East Texas man worth a dang lol

I wish we had blues here. Flatheads and channel cats are it here.

Boil in maple syrup after giving thanks to king charles.

Keith

Always tell people your a man of culture and fine tastes and this confirms it

We catch a mess of channel cats out of my father-in-law's pond every summer to fry, but they run at about 5#s.
We skin them, fillet them and fry all three parts.
1) left side.
2) right side.
3) the backbone. (I call this one the "hillbilly filet.)

That way you don't waste any meat, and you don't have to worry about how close you are to the backbone when you fillet them.
I have to say that I really like the middle fillet the best. The backbone of a 5# cat stays in one piece so you don't have to worry about any stray bones.

So Savell this is exactly how I do stuff the same cornmeal and fry ; yep and mom ans dad also kept a bottle of vinegar on the table. I'd catfish with you any day because you know what your a doing

Fiddlers is the only catfish I care for.

Most people don’t know how to eat them off the cob my gal demands leaving the bream whole they are way better eating,

Oh no...lol...Mom scaled and baked large northern Pike and 5lb walleyes, but Dad filletted everything, and only ate walleye or smoked sturgeon or whitefish.

Mom's dad hailed from Iowa....so....all fish were edible, bullheads in the spring fried whole