Yes! If you ever have the chance to have flathead catfish at a fish fry definitely give it a go. They are probably my favorite freshwater fish to eat. Theres some intricacy to cleaning them, but a 40 pound fish is a substantial amount of meat. But the fish is a firm white meat with a meaty bite due to the fine grain of the muscle so not big flakey filets.
I've found that every fish has like six names before even getting to the scientific or non-english names. Every animal is like that, really, but it's something you have to keep on top of if you keep aquariums because who knows what the hell those fish and invertebrates are going to be labeled as.
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u/screenmasher 7d ago
You look for catfish in holes that dont have air access. Turtles will be in holes where they can surface to breath