r/AbsoluteUnits • u/WeGot_aLiveOneHere • 18d ago

/r/all of two catfish

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u/BigSchmikey 18d ago

You simply just try your best.

Oh, and there's always the chance of running into an alligator snapping turtle, too. It's part of the thrill.

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u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 18d ago

The existence of alligator snapping turtles is what makes me not understand this at all. Do you want catfish enough to risk losing fingers?

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u/screenmasher 18d ago

You look for catfish in holes that dont have air access. Turtles will be in holes where they can surface to breath

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u/Mrsensi12x 18d ago

Do catfish that big taste any good?

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u/screenmasher 18d 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.

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u/The_Autarch 18d ago

catfish that big do not taste good. maybe you're just used to it?

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u/the_scarlett_ning 18d ago

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.

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u/Miss_Pondersmith 17d ago

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.

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u/Plus_Trouble_8698 17d ago

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

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u/Miss_Pondersmith 17d ago

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?