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I decided to take my kids up to Pineview this afternoon after I finished with work. I figured we'd be able to get into some panfish somewhere and that would be fun for them to have a little fish fry afterwards. What I didnt expect was getting into a HUGE mess of bullhead cats, And when I say huge mess I mean the three of us limited out in two hours !! I literally could not cast and have a line in the water for more than two minutes AVG was one per minute. I wish I could have got some pix but honestly it was so fast there was no time at all. So my question is now does anyone have any good recipes for these bullheads? I have a few ideas ive tried before but wondered if you guys may have something better since I now have plenty to experiment with, I have just spent the better part of three hours cleaning them all, back is sore hands are sore and im hungry as all get out lolz.
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Get out a large pine board and then..............................[:p]
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haha - or the one with the foil, but the notion of chewing on foil makes me cringe.
Did you filet or gut 'em?
Mudders are generally smaller than channels, so the filets probably aren't really big enough for smoking, but probably ideal lil' nuggets for frying. You'd probably want to go with a breading type coating rather than a batter. Catfish is best cooked thoroughly - grilled or baked works good. I like blackened catfish personally.
Tubedude's posted a few catfish recipes.
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If you don't cut out the fat, you are going to have a bad time.
Egg & Cracker w. your favorite spices and deep fry em.
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Passed up on a grundle of mudders today (Cutler). A few were pretty chunky -getting to 8-9 inches- but it wasn't what I was looking for. An uncountable number of peskerfish!
A sizeable group of Asians were out - and they were hauling in on the mudcats. Saw one basket of a good collection of the squirmy yellow-bellies. They'd got some Crappie, and some nice Channels.
I had one big hookup - peeled line and ran. Saw one good roll, but then it dove under some reeds and wound up. That coulda been my 30 incher! Or a big fat carp!
I'd still fillet 'em. Easier than gutting, skinning. But I'd agree - get away from the skin. But I think some folks gut, skin, head 'em, then coat and fry. Then pick 'em off the bones after.
Should have asked the Asian folks how they liked to prep 'em. I'm guessing they're pretty good! They were very nice courteous folks to fish by.
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Im cooking these no matter what, aside from fishing cooking is something i love to do. So far I have tried
Pan-Fried Catfish with Arugula-Orange Salad
Catfish Tacos with Tomato and Avocado Salsa
Oven-Fried Catfish with Rémoulade Sauce
And I am going to try
Tube Dudes recipe as well as the following
Beer-Battered Catfish on Vinegar Slaw
Spicy Catfish with Bell Peppers and Onions
Fried Catfish Sandwiches with Curried Mayonnaise
Sauteed Catfish Fillets with Pecan Butter Sauce
Fish Tacos with Strawberry Salsa
So far the catfish tacos were the best of the bunch.
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wow sounds like some tasty eats, That will give you an excuse to go catch more!!!
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Yep, need to get through these first though. Used up about 20 so far.
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], I simply gutted the rest since one of my recipes I use is a pecan crusted whole catfish. I figured there must be other similar recipes for whole non fileted cats.
] Suggestion??? Don't matter, just do it. If picky, look up recipes on the Ut forum or others.