SC - Catfish

[Helen]

I never heard the cold water thing or the dark flesh thing.... We eat all kinds
of fresh water fish all year around.   I come from a long line of fishermen and
my dad's brother is one of the top three competitive bass fishermen from the
state of Louisiana.
    In Louisiana there is nothing we like better than a fresh wild catfish.  I
have had many catfish, minutes from the bayou/river with no muddy taste, EVER,
any time of year.  My daddy says that is because he bleeds them first.  He hangs
them on a tree to make it easier to skin them and drains them.   He says that
gets rid of the mud taste.  Also, he will only keep the blue cats (looks black to
me but they are called blue)  not the mud cats that are brownish. There is
nothing in life as good as fried catfish that is less than an hour from the bayou
in my family's backyard.

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> 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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