re: What fish do you keep that others don’t?

supposedly if you punch out circles in the wings of the stingray its the same as scallops

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Goo is short for Gaspergou, a fresh water drum, sometimes known as Buffalo Fish. 

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Aren't Buffalo and Goo different?

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My grandmother would cook a mean couvillion with it. Ive not yet master the couvillion. One of these days ill get it perfect.

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I think we all have a grandmother who could cook something better than we ever could. They all use that secret ingredient called Patience.....LOL.

I know one thing. I screwed up when I cleaned the gou I tried to cook. I removed the fat in it's belly and that was the wrong thing to do. That fat renders out and gives the dish that rich flavor.

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Aren't Buffalo and Goo different?

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Very.

I live in southeast LA. I don't keep anything with any kind of stipulations on cleaning or cooking. Too many delicious fish out there

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Do they taste like regular catfish?

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Almost as good as a flathead catfish. Just as good as blue cat and channel.

Only downfall is that they slime the shite out of your boat.

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How many of you guys that answered Gou are from families that came out of Avoylles Parish?

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St. Landry and Evangeline.

so im guessing its a bullshite wives tale?

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Nado Jenkins83

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see the post just below yours.
fyi: i’ve seen “minorities” keeping hard tail to eat - i’d pick up aluminum cans on the side of the road before eating them. mack jr #1 sells them for $2/ea on the pier in navara to “various ethnic minorities”

This isn't really in the spirit of this thread, but I keep pike when I'm fishing up north. Pretty good any way you cook it, it's the cleaning that's a bitch.