Time For A Fish Fry On The Yellow River.

[santaman2000]

A friend caught these three catfish on the Yellow River Last night.

 

[Tony]

some serious bits of meat there

 

[Clouston98]

Wow! He'll not be short for a while!

 

[dwardo]

Monsters! Never eaten Catfish, hows it fare?

 

[santaman2000]

Freshwater catfish are fantastic! The meat is white, flakey, and delicious; Fried, blackened, or broiled. Catfish farming is one of the biggest agricultural operations across the South and Midwest. Here's a chart of the comparative sales of fish in 2005 (the most recent figures I could find) Bear in mind that these figures are for farm raised fish and don't include wild caught fish.

SPECIES POUNDS PRODUCED ESTIMATED SALES

• Catfish 396.6 million pounds $ 429.2 million
• Trout 56.4 million pounds $ 65.5 million
• Tilapia 13.3 million pounds $ 29.6 million
• Salmon 2.4 million pounds $ 37.4 million
• Crawfish 35.9 million pounds $ 21.1 million
  
  
  
  
  Saltwater cats, not so much.

 

[santaman2000]

Monsters! Never eaten Catfish, hows it fare?

Here's a common recipe for Southern or Country fried catfish. The presenter does a mediocre job explaining but the recipe and method are spot on http://youtu.be/uJF9SM0Ghb8

 

[northumbrian]

I saw a programme on the telly last year about catfish noodling ! They were catching some seriously big cats barehanded !

 

[GordonM]

Nice one Santaman! I do miss the numerous restaurants in Kentucky that feature catfish as the main fare. Here it is mainly BBQ (pulled pork and beef). Although, a new place has opened close by that features both called the Fishin' Pig.

 

[woodstock]

I love Vietnamese cobbler you can only seem to get it in tesco's thats river cat fish and its delicious, those are whoppers you have there.

 

[Coldfeet]

Bet he's not hungry any more!