Catfish cleaning video

Damn skippy!!I fillet em too but not with a lectric knife.Good how to video though.

About the only thing i don't like about the way they do it here, is the they waist all that belly meat when they cut the ribs out like that other wise it's fast and cool.

When is the fish fry???

I always throw the belly meat away. No one wanted these fish because of the recent flood. Family members thought they were contaminated and said they wouldn't eat them and I just don't care much for catfish anyway. I filleted them and gave them to an old black woman my wife used to work with and that was the happiest old woman I've ever seen.

I put out two 40 hook trotlines yesterday evening and this is what was on them this morning. I used weenies for bait.

just regular hot dogs u caught them on ?? wow ...nice catch

North Star wrote:

About the only thing i don't like about the way they do it here, is the they waist all that belly meat when they cut the ribs out like that other wise it's fast and cool.

Im agree with Mike. I don't like that way.. No electric knife for me,...
just regular knife i can clean with my real hands...

I use a regular fillet knife to clean bluegill, crappie, and perch. However, I like my electric fillet knife for cleaning catfish and I clean them the same way as in the video!~!

Thats cool mark, i love the belly meat, i my book it tastes better than the rest of the fish lolol now i don't eat the belly meat from fish larger than 10lbs but that is just the way i am.

On smaller ones,I do it pretty much that way, except I use a regular knife to take out the ribs. Bigger ones I usually skin them, then use the regular knife to fillet them around the ribs instead of cutting thru them. Them big catfish ribs are hard on an electric knife. I like to knock 'em in the head first also, so they don't flop around.

Muskyman wrote:

North Star wrote:

About the only thing i don't like about the way they do it here, is the they waist all that belly meat when they cut the ribs out like that other wise it's fast and cool.

Im agree with Mike. I don't like that way.. No electric knife for me,...
just regular knife i can clean with my real hands...

Thats the way I always felt untill I got old and didn't give a crap any more.LolOl

i just use my fillet kinfe... an keep the belly meat .....any body keep the meat by the eyes ...heard theres a good chunk there on the bigger ones ???

I heard that about flatheads but never about the other 2 species. I have never looked either.

marlboro920 wrote:

i just use my fillet kinfe... an keep the belly meat .....any body keep the meat by the eyes ...heard ther es a good chunk there on the bigger ones ???

Yep, I always cut out the head meat on both sides with my flathead.Thats the best piece of meat on the fish.