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re: Anyone ever eat hardhead catfish?
Posted on 10/1/19 at 4:03 pm to Popths
Posted on 10/1/19 at 4:03 pm to Popths
quote:Gafftop are good eating. Used to catch a lot of them fishing off the Lake P seawall. I'll keep gafftop as long as I have a hard cooler. I throw them back when I'm in my kayak using a soft cooler because I don't want to risk a catfish barb puncturing the cooler
I’ve eaten gafftop and have not thrown one back since.
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Posted on 10/1/19 at 4:17 pm to Redlos
Same here. I got skunked one day on reds and trout, but kept some gafftops to take home and eat. They tasted great. However, all that slime is an issue for me.
Also everoyone at the dock gave me shite for keeping gafftops haha
Also everoyone at the dock gave me shite for keeping gafftops haha
Posted on 10/1/19 at 4:22 pm to Grassy1
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Just seems too risky to have them anywhere near. Them bastards are painful.
All catfish species that I've ever caught have the ability to hit you hard with their barbs and all of them are quite painful for a while before it wears off.
I was out last week along the Miss. river and caught some too small to keep blue cats and one of them got me when I was unhooking it to toss back in the river. SOB had my hand hurting for a good 15 minutes before it finally eased up.
Oh, and the old wives tale of rubbing the wound on the side of the catfish is BS. That has never worked for me.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 5:51 pm to Big L
This...it takes a really large hard head to make it worth the trouble cleaning it. But they taste just fine
Posted on 10/1/19 at 5:57 pm to Datfish
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Also everoyone at the dock gave me shite for keeping gafftops haha
Dude I've never kept hardheads or gafftops, but if I did, I sure as shite wouldn't show anybody at the dock. Clean that shite in my backyard at home.
Posted on 10/1/19 at 6:30 pm to BrotherEsau
I don't even want to bring gafftops near the boat. Gross.
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