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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

yeah, catfish can be pretty unpleasant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and... Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I've had bad duck, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tasted like fishy dirt meat

I'm not a fish-eater in general, but I am an avid fisherman (I just catch them, the wife eats them,) so I've heard a lot of stories from my fellow anglers (which should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, there's a reason they're called "fish stories")

There is a persistent rumor I've heard that some people will take catfish and other bottom-feeders like carp home alive to let them swim around in a bathtub of clean water for a day or two to sort of flush all of the mud and everything out of their system before cleaning and cooking them

Allegedly it's more of a southern thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That’s a really good idea, honestly. If your goal is to eat catfish, that is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh, man... I'm not a huge fish eater, but I can honestly say some of the best fish fry days I remember were when we couldn't catch enough walleye to feed everyone. Someone would take a few of us kids out to have us catch a couple dozen perch. Beer battered and fried in a cast iron pan over an open campfire? Perch are effing delicious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Perch are good if you fry them right. But I live up north where the water stays cooler, I think it makes the fish taste better. You go down south and anything you catch just tastes like swamp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Whatever perch were were getting in Massachusetts were gross.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would put catfish above mahi mahi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Mahi Mahi is delicious and has a wonderful texture. As does monkfish.