Something new to try....

farmgal67357 · September 28, 2011, 06:37:27 PM

We bought some fish at Dillons on sale at $1.99 a pound. It is called Swai and is Vietnamese catfish. We bought it because they had baked samples to try, with their house seasoning no less, and it was sooooo delicious! I got two, 2 pound packages of it and they seasoned it for me for free!. We made it last light, and again, it was awesome! It doesn't have the "muddy" taste that catfish around here can have and it's very flaky. Swai, I highly recommend it! YUM!
Lisa

jarhead · September 28, 2011, 07:17:50 PM

If your catfish caught around here have a muddy taste then you need to learn how to clean them the right way

readyaimduck · September 28, 2011, 07:23:07 PM

Quoteyou need to learn how to clean them the right way

You mean not let them swim in the family bathtub for 24 hours like dad did?
No wonder I don't like catfish, and bathing in a bathub!

ready

Wilma · September 28, 2011, 07:34:38 PM

Soak the cleaned fish in salt water at least overnight.

farmgal67357 · September 28, 2011, 09:28:44 PM

I've never cleaned fish. Is catfish the one that some folks soak in milk?
Lisa
Are catfish the same as bullheads?

Teresa · September 28, 2011, 10:44:30 PM

Catfish and bullheads are different.
Ron is right... Cleaning anything is the difference between good and bad tasting meat.

Ole Granny · September 29, 2011, 02:26:09 AM

Bullheads may be my favorite fish, along with crappie, catfish bass, trout..and anything else. There use to be a a bullhead pond at M K & O. You could throw your line in and snap you had a bullhead. Now that I miss.

Wilma · September 29, 2011, 07:03:55 AM

The best bullheads are the ones you catch in your own pond.

Humpy · September 29, 2011, 07:27:19 AM

I am with Jarhead. After you skin that cat you need to very carefully cut off/out anything that is red on the sides and slice off the silver membrane. No perging needed.

jarhead · September 29, 2011, 07:49:39 AM

That's right Humpy and not to forget to hang that flathead by the mouth and cut off it's tail so it can bleed out. People that think they taste like mud did not cut all that 'red meat' off and the worst taste is if you leave any fat on it. YUCK !!! The idea of soaking in salt water is to draw out the blood, but if cleaned right there aint no blood to draw out.
Not positive Teresa but I think that bullheads are in the catfish family along with flathead, channel, spoonbill and the dreaded Mad Tom. You would be better off trying to pick up a dozen bumble bees than to touch a Mad Tom. I love bullheads too(hate cleaning them ) but not out of a muddy pond. Gotta come from a creek or clear water impoundment . IMO
If Humpy would drag out his old wall phone and take me to that nice clear water lake behind his house, we could dial 1-800-BIG-FISH, and maybe get us a nice mess of bullheads !!