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Fish Fry #1
Speedy1 John Gonzales-Lusk Los Lunas, NM, USA	Posted: August 19, 2012 11:58AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 3,342

Caught a stringer full of pan size catfish Saturday and fried them up last night. Sure were good eating.

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John D. Weimer Cape Girardeau, MO, USA	Posted: August 19, 2012 01:37PM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 21,577

Are those the little yellow ones like we call a Bullhead or Chughead? They don't get hardly any bigger than those in the pan and are as tasty as a Red Eared Sunfish which don't get very big either. Both of those little fish have unsurpassed flavors all their own.

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Speedy1 John Gonzales-Lusk Los Lunas, NM, USA	Posted: August 19, 2012 02:13PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 3,342

You're right about those being fine eating, JD, but these were channel cats.

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JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: August 20, 2012 07:19AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,866

Those look good, John and John. JDW - around here the redear sunfish are called shell crackers because the feed mostly on mussells and have two rows of teeth for cracking their shells. The SOuth Carolina state record for that fish, believe it or not, is over 5 pounds. I think about 1-1.5 pounds are the largest I've ever seen and most are smaller than that. Find a bed of those in the spring in shallow water, use an ultralight and bloodworms for bait, and Katie bar the door! Fun. The limit in SC is 30/day. A couple of years ago, my brother, nephew and I went out, launched at 7am, had our limit by 10. Mostly they were like this:

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Simon Simon Clowes Salem , Oregon, USA 1979 MG MGB "Big Red"	Posted: August 20, 2012 08:38AM Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 7,516

Those are bait size. Where I used to fish, anythiung less thyan 20" had to be returned to the river - by law.

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John D. Weimer Cape Girardeau, MO, USA	Posted: August 20, 2012 09:11AM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 21,577

Same here for Channel cat Simon.

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John D. Weimer Cape Girardeau, MO, USA	Posted: August 20, 2012 09:15AM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 21,577

I used to wade shallow gravel bottom creeks and catch Red Ears with a fly rod. I used a tiny hook that I mashed the barb down on and used a tiny piece of green plastic catalpa worm for bate. Those little guys are super aggressive and will hit anything that lands near their bed. I disabled the barb as not to injure the ones I tossed back because they were too small. Very few ever flopped off the hook before I could get a hand on them.

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Scott Scott Wheatley Ladner, BC, Canada 1972 MG MGB	Posted: August 20, 2012 09:43AM Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 2,304

You take the fish. You maker fertilzer, you grow the grain, you feed the cows and then you have food.

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JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: August 20, 2012 09:56AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,866

Scott, sounds like a beefeater to me. I like a variety - beef, pork, birds, fish. Fish can be quite good when well-prepared. In fact, I'd usually prefer fish to beef if it's cooked right, and if it's the right kind of fish. You take a blackened grouper or puppy drum and I'll put it up against your fanciest grain or grass-fed beef ct any ole time. Just my 2-cents.

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wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: August 20, 2012 11:20AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

In reply to # 2149799 by JackMG Scott, sounds like a beefeater to me. I like a variety - beef, pork, birds, fish. Fish can be quite good when well-prepared. In fact, I'd usually prefer fish to beef if it's cooked right, and if it's the right kind of fish. You take a blackened grouper or puppy drum and I'll put it up against your fanciest grain or grass-fed beef ct any ole time. Just my 2-cents.

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deepikkaa23 deepika S Disabled Account, Antarctica	Posted: September 04, 2012 11:25PM Registered: 8 months ago Posts: 4

I like fish fries!!!

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Re: Fish Fry #12
JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: September 05, 2012 08:00AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,866

Wyatt, I do fresh salmon on the grille almost every Saturday evenin... grille a filet mignon for the wifey, and I usually have a bite of it, plus my salmon. Add fresh corn on the cob in summer, or baked potato in winter and a tossed salad, and I'm set for the evening.

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