mess o' cats

[Lilred]

Was diggin up pics, thought ya'll might like this perty mess of catfish from the Appomattox river. I mighta posted thisun fore, but what the heck....lol
Biggest on the left was right at 15 lbs.

[Lilred]

and here's a mess of bream and crappie..taken from a local pond round here..

[gspsonny03]

Now that looks like a whole lot of work to me, glad I started doing catch and release. Do you do the fillet thing, or do you skin them all?

[Lilred]

I skin the cats..the bream & crappie I scale and gut em or filet..depends on if I feel like pickin the bones out er not..the skin is good on em when ya fry em up in batter & peanut oil and the bones help when yer cookin cause they aint so slimy-tastin with bones in em. dern, now I'm ready fer a fish fry..yummy..

That big catch of bream & crappie was good fer that pond..the farmer wanted alot of fish out of it..round here..iffin nobody fishes a pond, it'll git runned over by lil bream and crappie. They overpopulate so bad, that every fish you catch aint no bigger than the bait on yer hook. This is true esp. when the big bass fishers decide to catch nuthin but the big bass that eat all those lil fish, and they keep em. Without the bass and fish like em, you have no means of keepin the population in check, esp. in a small pond.

[earschplitinloudenboomer]

Hey, Lilred;
Nice catch. Couldn't persuade you to post us a good recipe in the outdoor cookin' section could we?

best to you and yours...
ears-

[Lilred]

That I can do nieghbor!

[mazter]

Catfishing is my Favorite, You sure have a mess of them there, Id use those Breem to fish for the Flathead's & Bluecat's. Nice Catch

[kphunter]

Here's a pic of a mess of crappie and a nice bass caught here in AZ a few years ago. Man, that was some good eatin'!

[DogYeller]

Some Blue cats I caught on the Arkansas arm of Keystone a few years back.

[Chenango Dave]

Some rainbow trout cought today while takin a break from boilin sap.- gonna smoke em.