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A woman caught an exceptionally large fish.
T
Is her whole fist up in its gills?
B
“you using the whole fist Doc?”
K
buy me a drink first
K
MOOOONNNN RRIIVVEEERRRRR!
S
You ever serve time?
P
Its through the gills into the mouth cavity
D
Yes that is how catfish are held. It tears the internal gills and reduces their lifespan up to 5 years.
K
Gone Catfistin’
N
Before I knew Noodling was a thing, I never expected people to be dumb enough to stick their limbs into random holes in murky water but here we are…
P
Yeah plenty of people have gotten absolutely fucked up by giant snapping turtles shoving their hand down in a catfish noodling hole. Worst part is those giant catfish are nasty to eat. It’s all risk with no real reward
T
I’ve had plenty of normal catfish fried up and it’s delicious. Are you saying there’s something about the huge ones that makes them taste a lot worse than normal sized ones?
W
Think an old tough rooster vs. a spring chicken.
T
Yes, like mutton vs spring lamb
I
Like beef and veal. Not saying it is, but veal prepared properly will make you consider that the way the animal is raised is worth it.
T
Yeah, like eating a child of a wealthy family versus grandma from the projects
F
Yeah like eating cum vs a fetus
P
This comment thread just keeps straying further and further from God.
X
It’s akin to eating Shepherd’s pie vs a Shepherd in your pie i.e the Lambs vs the Shepherd. The followers always taste better
O
God shouldn’t have made various fetuses so tasty.
M
Like the difference between pumpkin seeds and pumping your kin full of seed
L
yeah like eating jesus’s dick vs. baby jesus’s dick
K
Okay lol this is the real wtf
G
I prefer my eggs scrambled
T
Eat the rich and tender.
S
No one writes to the Colonel 🙁
P
Yes. Now granted, if you were very determined and had a lot of patience you could filet and trim the shit out of the meat down to where you have nothing but pure white chunks and those wouldn’t be so bad but typically most people after cat fish have a particular “eating size” in mind. Deep Fried Catfish is one of my favorite’s when done right. When it’s bad it’s awful though
R
Right around 20-24 inch is eating size for the catfish I’ve gone for. Smaller than that and they arent worth the effort unless you are starving. Bigger and they start tasting like poopy mud. You can fix that a bit with hot sauce, but it really ramps up fast the bigger they get
P
In the southern states “thin cut filets” have become popular and synonymous with high quality in some restaurants but the reality is they just cut it very thin to cut back on the negative taste that some catfish can develop. I’m no expert on skinning and cutting filets but I’ve got some neighbors who are huge catfishers and they tell me the secret is to cut all the grey/black shit out and only leave the white meat for the best flavor. I’ve got to say I agree with them from what they have given me. Of course this requires catching enough to be willing to waste all the bad tasting bits
B
Catfish are bottom feeders so the big ones have been eating nothing but river grim and pollutants for several years and it affects the way they taste when eating
Y
This is misinformation. Blue catfish and flathead catfish aren’t bottom feeders. Both routinely chase schools of live fish. Flatheads are notorious for wiping out other fish and there are programs to remove them from some rivers. [https://georgiawildlife.com/flathead-removal-project](https://georgiawildlife.com/flathead-removal-project) Also, fish don’t get that big by eating ‘river grim and pollutants’.
G
Get out of here with your reasonable answer… let alone a reference! We deal in non-founded absurdities and hearsay around here.
A
Also a catfish that big is also pretty old.
A
How old do you think……wait I googled it. 40 Years old? Yup. That’s a pretty old fish
L
It has nothing to do with what they eat, it is due to where they live and geosmin, a naturally occurring organic compound. Catfish (and some other freshwater fish) accumulate geosmin from the algae and bacteria in the sediment where they live, giving them that earthy, muddy flavor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin#Effects
L
Probably still mostly from algae they consume, though, even if as a side product. I can’t imagine absorption through skin being stronger than through the sediment they end up eating. I might be wrong, maybe geosmin can’t survive intestines.
C
It’s not through the skin so much as through the gills – it absorbs right into their blood. They will also absorb it from food, too, though. Incidentally, you can easily flush the geosmin out of a fish by keeping it in clean water for a couple of weeks. Not that the people in this video are going to do that, obviously, but it’s a thing in aquaculture.
A
Decades of pollutants that persist in adipose tissue and meat definitely plays a role in making them taste bad and less healthy iverall
J
Wow, what a neat thing to learn abt Thanks! TIL
J
It’s why a friend of mine calls them “shit fish”
K
Shatfish
P
Scatfish.
J
I’M THE SCATFISH! Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
B
I’m strong to the finish cuz I eats me scatfish
G
But aren’t the smaller ones eating the same stuff and tasting great?
S
Yes. All catfish is good to eat if prepared properly. Gotta soak that meat in milk or saltwater and make sure to cut to blood lines off the meat.
E
Best I can describe it is you know on how you get a piece of salmon and you flip it over in the dark gray part is super strong. Gamey flavor versus the nice pink flesh on the top side. Yeah as a catfish gets bigger. It’s like the same thing except that easy to scrape off part gets thicker and thicker until it’s the entire filet
C
Actually a really helpful description, thanks
E
Thanks. I usually eat catfish when I catch them and they are between 10 and 20 in
K
Yes the big ones typically are not good eating. You just want a regular like 3-5 lb catfish if you want it to also still taste good.
D
When I was a kid we used to catch 20 to 30 lb catfish in Louisiana and they tasted great
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