SC - Catfish

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/99 4:10:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Mordonna22 at aol.com writes:

<< <<  Farm raised catfish 
  tastes a whole lot better than wild catfish. >>

Depends.
 
 <<A scurrilous and untrue statement.>>

Not necessarily. Like many kinds of fresh water fish the cooler to water the 
sweeter the flesh of the fish. Catfish caught in cool lakes, rivers and ponds 
will not have the muddy flavor that fish caught in the summer months or in 
warm environments often have. The only caution I would suggest is to be 
careful in skinning them and use plenty of fresh water because the slime from 
the skin can also impart an objectionable fishy flavor to the flesh.

Catfish caught in warm water oftentimes has a dark streak of flesh on each 
side. If this is removed and discarded then the fish is soaked in salt water 
to remove residual blood and other off flavors it becomes tasty again.

<< Farm raised catfish is blah bland.>>

True but you can achieve some sort of 'flavor' if you soak it in saltwater 
overnight which is what should be done to 'wild' catfish and bullheads 
anyway. OTOH, farm raised catfish are much tastier than farm raised trout.

Given a choice, I would personally choose farm raised fish over wild fish in 
the heat of summer but choose wild fish I the cool and colder months.
 
<< Mordonna >>

Ras
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