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I went to my club last night. I caught 4 bluegills and chunked them up. I set 5 bank lines for catfish.
5 lines 5 cats running from 14 inches to 19 inches. We run feeders on the pond so the cats get big. I filleted them out and cut the fillets in half, they are in some cold salted water right now in the fridge. They gave some decent cheek medalions. I just fried them up in some butter and garlic and snacked on them for lunch.
Dinner is going to be good tonight!
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Sounds good...   !
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Sounds great!
What times dinner?
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So many good things to do with catfish...
I once quick smoked (maybe 30-40 minutes) some catfish fillets with a little lemon & cayenne infused compound butter, and hit them with a little remulade when they were done, and served them hot.
Got first place in the Cajun/New Orleans part of a KCBS/NEBS event, back maybe 15 years ago.
Worth a try if you like that kind of thing.
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I make a kind of creamy clam chowder with catfish chunks... damn good eating... assuming you get tired of "normal " recipes.
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I make a kind of creamy clam chowder with catfish chunks... damn good eating... assuming you get tired of "normal " recipes. Yummy. Sounds good!
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I went to my club last night. I caught 4 bluegills and chunked them up. I set 5 bank lines for catfish.
5 lines 5 cats running from 14 inches to 19 inches. We run feeders on the pond so the cats get big. I filleted them out and cut the fillets in half, they are in some cold salted water right now in the fridge. They gave some decent cheek medalions. I just fried them up in some butter and garlic and snacked on them for lunch.
Dinner is going to be good tonight! Well and good, but ....... did you make hush puppies?? Catfish ain't any good without fresh, hot hush puppies.  L.W.
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Funny you mention 5 cats. I went out Friday to the Wisconsin River. The water was a bit high, however. I did manage 5 channel cats from 12" to 20" . I like to smoke them so I sprinkle salt on them over night and 5:30 AM I was smoking them. I went with a lower heat of about 160 degrees ave. for about 6 hours. They were quite smokey and salty. It seems that every time I smoke them , they turn out a bit different , but that is ok. I used Sonny's dip bait to catch them. I tend to catch little channel cats with dip bait , however, I did have one on that took my line when he headed back to the brush pile he came from.
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I went to my club last night. I caught 4 bluegills and chunked them up. I set 5 bank lines for catfish.
5 lines 5 cats running from 14 inches to 19 inches. We run feeders on the pond so the cats get big. I filleted them out and cut the fillets in half, they are in some cold salted water right now in the fridge. They gave some decent cheek medalions. I just fried them up in some butter and garlic and snacked on them for lunch.
Dinner is going to be good tonight! Well and good, but ....... did you make hush puppies?? Catfish ain't any good without fresh, hot hush puppies. L.W. Kind of. I run them through milk and eggs then to corn meal and flour. I just take the two after I'm done and mix them, toss in a minced onion. Then just fry decent size dough ball of it.
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I went to my club last night. I caught 4 bluegills and chunked them up. I set 5 bank lines for catfish.
5 lines 5 cats running from 14 inches to 19 inches. We run feeders on the pond so the cats get big. I filleted them out and cut the fillets in half, they are in some cold salted water right now in the fridge. They gave some decent cheek medalions. I just fried them up in some butter and garlic and snacked on them for lunch.
Dinner is going to be good tonight! Well and good, but ....... did you make hush puppies?? Catfish ain't any good without fresh, hot hush puppies. L.W. Kind of. I run them through milk and eggs then to corn meal and flour. I just take the two after I'm done and mix them, toss in a minced onion. Then just fry decent size dough ball of it. Close enough. I love good hush puppies and haven't had any since the last time I visited my brother in Little Rock, Ark. When I visit, he takes me to a great place there for cat fish and hush puppies. Mighty good! L.W.
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Can’t wait to get back to Minnie-Soda in a couple weeks. Gonna catch me a mess of crappie with the grandkids and have us a fish fry...
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