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On Jan 20, 1:21*pm, "JimH" wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... 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. A Texan I know told me that some Texas cattle ranches have big "Carp Cook-outs" during the spawn. These are the ones with extensive irrigation ditches where the carp can grow pretty big. During the spawn the cowboys "round up" the carp by whooping and hollerin' them down the canals, closing canal gates as they go. When they get them to no-way-out end pool they wade in and pitchfork the carp out into truck beds and bring them to the ranch house. The way they cook them is pretty interesting. *Build a big bonfire of brush and mesquite wood on soft earth. *When the fire is down to embers bobcat approximately 1 foot of hot earth and embers aside, and place the fish in the depression, then bobcat the earth and embers back over the fish. *Build another fire over it that'll burn a couple hours. Now before the carp are tossed into the pit that are encased in cow manure. *I think this guy - his name was Rowdy - said the name of the carp dish is called "Carapaced Carp." While the second fire is burning everybody's drinking iced Bud and doing the dosie-doe to the sounds of a local square-dance band. When it's time to eat the bobcat moves the fire off the fish and everybody sits down to feast. Rowdy said when that firepit hardened dung crust is cracked off you can see the clean white carp meat shining in the sun, and steaming. I asked him how the carp tasted, and he looked at me like I was crazy, and says, "Hell, boy, we throw that damn carp away. *It's the crust that's the good eatin." --Vic Carp??? *No thanks. *And no thank on the bottom feeding catfish unless they are farm pond raised.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. |
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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~! |
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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... |
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On Jan 20, 2:57*pm, HK wrote:
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?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yes you are. |
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On Jan 20, 2:57*pm, HK wrote:
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?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeah, we all know that just because you don't like football, no one should ever watch it. |
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On Jan 20, 2:54*pm, 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...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Mmmmm, I'll be right there! |
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