What's your favorite catfish to eat?

'de one in the courtbouillon

Ole baws in Hackberry/Cameron are all about those fried gafftop.

Flathead (spot) steaks in a couvillion over rice with fried belly flanks on the side.

Flathead/channel/blue(small)/yella bullhead

Goujon/flathead. Easy.

One my old man used to call an "appaloosa."

Whichever one that is.

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Flathead belly fried up straight from Ol Man River

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This. I love the belly meat off of good size flatheads. I don't have any qualms about eating channel, blue or flathead to be honest.

I made a real good courtbullion out of a large blue cat a few months ago and it was a hit with the folks that ate it.

9” channel cat. Fried on the bone.

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Tell me about cooking catfish bellies. This is new to me. I've only done filets.

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You need some good size catfish to make it worth your wile to remove the belly meat. If under 5 lbs. I generally don't fool with it since some cats don't have as much as others. I find the flathead has the biggest slab of belly meat out of the 3 main cats I catch.

After I filet the sides, I'll cut the belly meat off starting at the back of the jaw of the cat on the underside and arc out to the sides where the ribs are and cut just shy of the ends of the rib bones. Then proceed to cut past the double fins on the mid section of the belly.

Then I put the outer skin side down on my cutting board, make a cut down to the skin right in front of the belly fins and filet the skin off. Then I turn the belly slab over and filet off the interior silver belly skin and what you wind up with is a nice slab of delicious meat.

Check u-tube videos for a more comprehensive, and easier to understand technique. Nothing like seeing it as opposed to reading about it.

ETA: And cook it like you would the filets.