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"Red Herring" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:13:32 -0500, "JimH" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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No boat needed...just walk along the wide shoreline and pick them up out
of the mud, eh?

ROTF!!!!!!!


Word of the Day:

toady


Main Entry:
Pronunciation:
\?to--de-\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural toad·ies
Etymology:
by shortening & alteration from toadeater
Date:
1826

: one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors
--
Red Herring

Lighten up, was a funny comment.

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"HK" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:44 pm, wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:37 pm, Vic Smith wrote:





On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:05:31 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Yeah, you've bought into the idiotic notion that catfish are somehow
not clean. Must be hell to not be able to read and learn on your own.
Here, learn something, or at least try:
Habitat - Most common in big rivers and streams. Prefers some current,
and deep water with sand, gravel or rubble bottoms. Channel catfish
also inhabit lakes, reservoirs and ponds.
Feeding Habits - Feeds primarily at night using taste buds in the
sensitive barbels and throughout the skin to locate prey. Although
they normally feed on the bottom, channels also will feed at the
surface and at mid-depth. Major foods are aquatic insects, crayfish,
mollusks, crustaceans and fishes. Small channels consume
invertebrates, but larger ones may eat fish. Contrary to popular
belief, carrion is not their normal food.
Eating Quality - Considered one of the best-eating freshwater fish.
The meat is white, tender and sweet when taken from clean water.
Mt uncle was a caterfisherman here before he moved to Florida.
He could make a fishhead talk, blink and curl it's lip like Elvis.
I really miss him. I ate a lot of catfish. Uncle would bring a
couple hundred pounds of catfish and carp he had caught during the
week and kept caged into a black Chicago neighborhood, where
he would barter the smoking of what he wanted to eat and some beer
money for the remainder. I'm sure he ate some carp, but it was never
a big deal. Can't say i ever had it.
People who grew up or lived through hard times wouldn't get all
high-brow about disdaining carp.
OTOH, with pollution it doesn't hurt to be aware of what some fish
might be harboring, like mercury, other heavy metals PCB's, etc.
I don't trust that salmon my wife brings home sometimes from the
store, and told her not to buy it anymore. It don't taste right.
Pretty much off fish unless I catch it myself from waters I deem
acceptable. A neighbor insisted I take a big Coho he caught on Lake
Michigan about 15 years ago, even when I told him flat out I'd bury it
in the garden. He didn't want the damn thing either, and he didn't
have a garden.
--Vic- Hide quoted text -
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People like JimH will eat fish out of the great lakes that are so
chemical laden that if you light a match next to one, it will ignite,
but they won't eat those nasty catfish~!- Hide quoted text -

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Loogie you jerk! Ten frekin' minutes to gametime and I got to go to
Stop and **** and get some catfish, make some deep fried poppers..
yum...


Gametime? Cripes, am I missing yet another StuporBowel?

Nope, it's not until primary election day.

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Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:44 pm, wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:37 pm, Vic Smith wrote:





On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:05:31 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Yeah, you've bought into the idiotic notion that catfish are somehow
not clean. Must be hell to not be able to read and learn on your own.
Here, learn something, or at least try:
Habitat - Most common in big rivers and streams. Prefers some current,
and deep water with sand, gravel or rubble bottoms. Channel catfish
also inhabit lakes, reservoirs and ponds.
Feeding Habits - Feeds primarily at night using taste buds in the
sensitive barbels and throughout the skin to locate prey. Although
they normally feed on the bottom, channels also will feed at the
surface and at mid-depth. Major foods are aquatic insects, crayfish,
mollusks, crustaceans and fishes. Small channels consume
invertebrates, but larger ones may eat fish. Contrary to popular
belief, carrion is not their normal food.
Eating Quality - Considered one of the best-eating freshwater fish.
The meat is white, tender and sweet when taken from clean water.
Mt uncle was a caterfisherman here before he moved to Florida.
He could make a fishhead talk, blink and curl it's lip like Elvis.
I really miss him. I ate a lot of catfish. Uncle would bring a
couple hundred pounds of catfish and carp he had caught during the
week and kept caged into a black Chicago neighborhood, where
he would barter the smoking of what he wanted to eat and some beer
money for the remainder. I'm sure he ate some carp, but it was never
a big deal. Can't say i ever had it.
People who grew up or lived through hard times wouldn't get all
high-brow about disdaining carp.
OTOH, with pollution it doesn't hurt to be aware of what some fish
might be harboring, like mercury, other heavy metals PCB's, etc.
I don't trust that salmon my wife brings home sometimes from the
store, and told her not to buy it anymore. It don't taste right.
Pretty much off fish unless I catch it myself from waters I deem
acceptable. A neighbor insisted I take a big Coho he caught on Lake
Michigan about 15 years ago, even when I told him flat out I'd bury it
in the garden. He didn't want the damn thing either, and he didn't
have a garden.
--Vic- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
People like JimH will eat fish out of the great lakes that are so
chemical laden that if you light a match next to one, it will ignite,
but they won't eat those nasty catfish~!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Loogie you jerk! Ten frekin' minutes to gametime and I got to go to
Stop and **** and get some catfish, make some deep fried poppers..
yum...

Gametime? Cripes, am I missing yet another StuporBowel?

Nope, it's not until primary election day.



Is Y.A. Tittle starting?

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:19:39 -0500, Red Herring
wrote:

hushpuppies

I have never developed a taste for hushpuppies for some reason.

Oddly, I love cornbread.

Depends on the hushpuppy. When I was stationed at Biloxi, the local shrimp
and fried oyster place had great hushpuppies. Rare to find. Best HP line I
ever heard, and still laugh when thinking about it was at Rockingham Raceway
in about 1988. Bought a box lunch of fried chicken, bad hush puppies and
maybe slaw. A little old lady of about 75 years young, picks out one of the
wilted hush puppies that looked more like a french fry, and while wiggling
that HP, asks "What the hell is this here thing?"

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:08:50 -0500, BAR wrote:

Red Herring wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:18:17 -0500, BAR wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:

And smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, white and hybrid bass. Along
with
trout, bluegill, crappie, huge catfish, drum, etc.
I love cat fishing. Around these parts, the cats tend to be channel
cats on the small side - say, less than ten pounds or so. We also
have horned pout which can run up to 3/4 pounds sometimes.
Spent my high school years fishing the Potomac off of Ft. Belvior for
catfish. We would fish for channel cats and what we called mud cats.
Use
worms to catch perch, back hook the perch to catch the cats. We were
fishing for that elusive 25 pounder. And, we allways had a case of our
favorite beverage along to sip while waiting for the poles to be pulled
over.

I was fishing Lake Marion last summer with a guide out of Santee -
great guy, real knowledgable, put me on a channel cat that was 30
pounds easy. Used a commercial blood bait - we must have caught 10
fish that day, not one under 20 pounds.

Good eatin' too.

You folks have carp down there?
We have lots of Carp in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Not much for
a
fight. People actually eat the Carp even after knowing what garbage the
Carp eat.


That's a coincidence. I used to have a spot off Ft Belvoir where I'd
anchor
and use salted eel for catfish. They weren't worth a damn to eat, but it
was fun to take nieces and nephews out there and let them catch fish.
I'd
tell them we had to kiss 'em goodbye when we threw them back. They had
little problem with that, after I showed them how, but there momma's
didn't
think it was too cool.
--
Red Herring

The place we fished was on the south side of Dogue Creek where it meets
the Potomac. Lots of moving water. When the paper freighters heading to
the up river you had to get everything off the beach due to the wake
hitting you about 5 minutes after the freighter passed.

Heh - largest redfish I ever caught was in a similar situation.

Caught is a correct way to phrase it, but I didn't use a pole, line,
hooks or reels. :)

We used to catch catfish in Clear Lake, CA by hand. They would spawn in the
tires used a dock bumpers. The Sacramento Delta has millions of tasty
catfish. White cats. about 3/4#. We get some larger yellow cats, but they
just do not taste that good. Mostly we catch them on Freshwater clams and
sardines.

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:37:53 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


No Bluefish out here. You will get salmon in the feeding frenzy at times.
Which is always a nice suprize.

Really - that's very cool.

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On Jan 20, 5:22*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:37:53 -0800, "Calif Bill"

wrote:

No Bluefish out here. *You will get salmon in the feeding frenzy at times.
Which is always a nice suprize.

Really - that's very cool.

From what I have seen on video, probably a similar experience from
bluefish boil, to salmon frenzy.. The fish seem to have a similar cut,
probably act similar on the line, except for the different
environments..

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:25:54 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:44 pm, wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:37 pm, Vic Smith wrote:



Gametime? Cripes, am I missing yet another StuporBowel?

I thought they dragged the Stupor Bowl ot until March.
Since New England is playing on HD, I have a mild interest..... but that's
about it.


Second Word of the Day:

MINION

Main Entry:
min·ion
Pronunciation:
\?min-y?n\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle French mignon darling
Date:
circa 1500

1 : a servile dependent, follower, or underling 2 : one highly favored :
idol 3 : a subordinate or petty official

--
Red Herring

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:29:20 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:19:39 -0500, Red Herring
wrote:

hushpuppies

I have never developed a taste for hushpuppies for some reason.

Oddly, I love cornbread.

With some bacon and onions therein, they're really bad for you. Stay away
from them.
--
Red Herring

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"HK" wrote in message
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BAR wrote:
Red Herring wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:01:47 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:25:51 -0500, Red Herring
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:13:10 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:28:40 -0500, HK
wrote:


They're ok eating in the smaller sizes, and they are easy to
catch. For reasons I don't understand, they seem to fight hard
in the colder, New England salt waters.
Asked my Dad yesterday, and he said he's only seen a couple in
all his
Florida fishing years, and never caught one, though he never went
after them either. Agree that the bigger fish aren't as
good-tasting,
so I just might not go after them unless I release.
My dad's favorite eating fish is the sand perch. He can still
stand
there for an hour filleting them to get a couple pounds of meat,
and
he can hardly stand. They do taste good.
I love 'perch fingers'. Fillet's about the size of a half dollar,
a quarter
inch thick, breaded, deep fried. Takes about a hundred, but damn
they're
good.
Speckled trout - pan fried in a corn meal batter.

MMMMMMM.......

Trout are getting damn hard to find in the bay. Unless you're Harry
of
course. But I think they're the best eating of the fish out there.
May not
be the same trout you're talking about. Here they're also called
weakfish.
The hook will pull out of their mouth very easily.

The problem is that the bluefish find a school of Sea
Trout/Weakfish/Speckled Trout and when you are gently reeling in the
Sea Trout a damn bluefish will see it and make a dash towards it and
take a big old bite out of the middle of the Sea Trout and you are
left with a head on the hook if you are lucky.

Sea Trout are good eating fish.



Yes, they are. Sea trout and weakfish are not the same fish.

Weakfish are also called yellow mouth trout.