Cleaning Catfish?

[oneshot 1]

Ok I cut fat off. 

I was thinking better tasting cutting the dark meat off. 

My wife says no one else does. But I think it would give it a better flavor. 

Do I or don't ?

oneshot 

[fishinwrench]

You like to eat carp for crying out loud !

Even the darkest meat on a catfish should be as tasty as anything on a dang carp, No?   

I cut the yellow meat that some catfish have on their shoulders out,  that's it.  

[oneshot 1]

MMM Carp!

Little strange eats don't know what you're missing throwing away Possum Heads.

oneshot 

[tjm]

The carp I've  butchered was quite a bit better than catfish. I think any fish will taste better if the dark stuff goes to the cat or fertilizes tomatoes. Got to do what wife says though, right?

[MOPanfisher]

38 minutes ago, oneshot 1 said:

MMM Carp!

Little strange eats don't know what you're missing throwing away Possum Heads.

oneshot 

Oneshot, you may not have noticed, but what you are holding is not a catfish, carp or a possum head.  🙂

[oneshot 1]

You know one time and Agent wanted to arrest me over a Snapping Turtle. 

Ah it was a pick of good eats I had. 

Was at Grandma's one time for Christmas Dinner. 

My Ex looked at the table made a face. Whats the matter you like Coon and Posum?

Yea but not use to them grinning back at me. 

oneshot 

[Terrierman]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

You like to eat carp for crying out loud !

Even the darkest meat on a catfish should be as tasty as anything on a dang carp, No?   

I cut the yellow meat that some catfish have on their shoulders out,  that's it.  

If it ain't white it ain't right.  On all freshwater fish IMHO.

[fishinwrench]

16 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

If it ain't white it ain't right.  On all freshwater fish IMHO.

Nothing white on a great lakes salmon, and that's some of the best "freshwater" fish you can put in your mouth.  😋

[tjm]

Aren't great lakes salmon feral stockers? Naturally  anadromous that can't find the salt? Kinda like Crane Creek Steel head? (they'd be steel head in the native waters)

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Aren't great lakes salmon feral stockers? Naturally  anadromous that can't find the salt? Kinda like Crane Creek Steel head? (they'd be steel head in the native waters)

Beats me.  I heard for decades that wild trout with their pinkish orange meat were "SO MUCH BETTER" than the whitish-gray meat of a pellet reared stocker......but after eating a bunch of both my honest opinion is that they all taste about the same and it takes a few extra shakes of lemon pepper seasoning to cover up the slight unpleasantness of both.   

I used to think that I could taste the liver from the food pellets in stocker trout meat.....but in all honesty I taste the same thing in wild trout (and YES I'm guilty of knifing several bona-fide wild trout where I really wasn't supposed to...... Sorry 😔 🙄)

I don't taste that in Salmon whether they are from Michigan or the Atlantic.  Salmon just has its own flavor and smell. Fantastic!  If it's fresh it's delicious, regardless of where it's from. 

I've only eaten Steelhead twice, one from Michigan, and one from Alaska, and they both tasted just like the Trout from Bennett Spring to me.