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[Johnsfolly]

5 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

can get good enough deals on farm raised (and delicious) catfish.....  

Now that is a farsical claim. I'll eat trout over any farm raised catfish or worse tilapia .

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Now that is a farsical claim. I'll eat trout over any farm raised catfish or worse tilapia .

Used to be a Catfish house in my home town, they served corn fed catfish that was absolutely delicious.   Never heard anyone ever say differently.   There's a pub in Hermann that serves it too, and I'd challenge anyone to take one bite and then not devour the rest of it.   

The channel catfish out of these rivers and lakes though...... you'd be a fool to serve that up in a restaurant and expect repeat business.

[snagged in outlet 3]

The cat at Hobo's at the Legion is awesome.  Farm raised and if you want to walk in and sit down a weekend you better get there before 4PM

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

We made a no channel cat rule when spear fishing on Bull. They taste like garbage

[skeeter]

On 2/17/2019 at 11:51 AM, snagged in outlet 3 said:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/poachers-beware-missouri-proposal-would-increase-penalties-for-wildlife-crimes/article_1ac82da3-ca0a-5db8-aacc-9ed3d2c12cdf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-2 

That's a step in the right direction but since the Poachers are stealing from ALL of us in the public, it still isn't enough of a fine.  Couple the fines with being a "MINIMUM, REQUIRED sentence" to get around namby-pamby, weak Judges and throw in what Minnesota used to do or maybe still does and immediately confiscate,  Boat, Motors, Trailer and any vehicle they used in the Poaching incident.  

[Flysmallie]

Went with a buddy a few years ago to pick up a big box of "farm raised" catfish. He got the scoop from a local restaurant on where to get it. It was very good. And it said farm raised right on the box. Right under that it said it was a product of Korea. You don't know where those farms are, and you can't even be sure it's catfish. But it was delicious. 

[Quillback]

1 minute ago, Flysmallie said:

Went with a buddy a few years ago to pick up a big box of "farm raised" catfish. He got the scoop from a local restaurant on where to get it. It was very good. And it said farm raised right on the box. Right under that it said it was a product of Korea. You don't know where those farms are, and you can't even be sure it's catfish. But it was delicious. 

Yep, good chance those farmed raised catfish came from overseas and they aren't channel cats.  They do taste good however.

But I'll take a 3 lb. blue cat from Grand Lake over any of them.  

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

Used to be a Catfish house in my home town, they served corn fed catfish that was absolutely delicious.   Never heard anyone ever say differently.   There's a pub in Hermann that serves it too, and I'd challenge anyone to take one bite and then not devour the rest of it.   

The channel catfish out of these rivers and lakes though...... you'd be a fool to serve that up in a restaurant and expect repeat business.

I must not had corn fed cats. Tasted like fish pellets. So typically avoid most farm raised fish.

[Seth]

Channel cats suck compared to a blue. Flatheads are even better. I grew up eating channels cats out of ponds and still enjoy catching them, but I don't waste my time to clean the nasty buggers unless somebody else just really wants them. Blues and flatheads aren't so fortunate when I catch them.

[fishinwrench]

Always wondered what it is about flatheads that make them so tasty.   Less scavenging maybe?

Everybody says blues are so much better tablefare than channels, but I'm not convinced.    If you trim the yellow meat from a channel cat he tastes just like a blue to me.