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re: Saltwater catfish in Louisiana
Posted on 5/21/26 at 3:25 pm to TIGERSby10
Posted on 5/21/26 at 3:25 pm to TIGERSby10
quote:This
The video of the guy cleaning saltwater catfish is wrong. You take the sharp knife and stab them in the gut and then throw them overboard.
People are too soft these days. There was a time when there was no such thing as throwing back a hardhead alive
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Posted on 5/21/26 at 6:34 pm to Pelican fan99
quote:and what does that accomplish?
There was a time when there was no such thing as throwing back a hardhead alive
Posted on 5/23/26 at 7:13 am to Royalfishing
There’s no way I’m eating a turd hustler. Tried gaftop, because I was told, and juice ain’t worth the squeeze plus I catch enough good fish to not bother. The wife loves sitting in trees of Verret catching blues and channels so I clean enough for big fish fries, call them company fish because that’s what I feed company. But to me catfish excel when used to feed crabs, in my traps
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:08 pm to DTRooster
Southeast Texas bays have warnings about eating bottom feeders due to water pollution from industry. I only eat catfish from the lakes TB or Sam Rayburn
Posted on 5/23/26 at 6:39 pm to Royalfishing
Marsh blue cats are fantastic to eat.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 11:04 pm to Royalfishing
I will admit that I’ve been in scenarios where we needed fish to eat that night and water was dirty or weren’t catching trout for whatever reason, and we would keep gafftops. They’re good eating if you trim the bloodline off.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:49 am to DTRooster
Do you use hard heads or gaff tops or both for crab bait
Do you skin or guy them or just use heads?
Do you skin or guy them or just use heads?
Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:23 am to cgrand
It means That particular nasty arse hardhead will never slime my line again
Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:55 pm to cgrand
quote:
and what does that accomplish?
Culls the catfish population, provides food for crabs, and gives me joy.
If you are too soft for stabbing a catfish, you could always just throw them in the grass of the marsh.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:07 pm to TIGERSby10
I've eaten gafftops before. Nothing wrong with them. I would never throw back a sheepshead.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 5:05 am to WAR TIGER
Fished with Buckskin many times over the years. He’d rather have a gafftop than a trout
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