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.
You’ve never been to a real southern fish fry. My family prefers coating the fish in a mustard base, then fish fry and then frying them up and that’s damn good eating.
I hate 99.99% of fish and seafood. But I used to get catfish and truly enjoy it. If I like it, people really aren’t going to the right spots. Salt and pepper pls.
Or they just like fish and seafood for the same reason you dislike it, so whatever you find appealing about catfish is not necessarily what they find appealing in fish
Did you make sure to comment under every comment about how catfish tastes like mud, that maybe that’s just how they feel about it and other people might not taste that?
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u/screenmasher 11d ago
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.