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Originally Posted by Zeke
Gross. They won't die. Might as well clean them alive.
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Good eating if they don't get too big. Yes, you basically skin and clean them when they are alive.
I was probably 8 when I helped clean my first one.
My dad did business with a guy that did a lot of noodling. Always bragging about the monsters he caught. Dad told him the next time he caught a big one to bring it by the house.
Saturday night. Parents at a party so we have a teenage girl baby sitting. Knock oj front door. Grizzly looking dude with a giant catfish on the porch. Babysitter says dad is gone. Grizzly dude says "I'll just put it in the bathtub." And he did!
The sob filled the whole length of the tub. Squawking and squirming. I was in awe!
About midnight home they come. Mom was not too pleased to see the monster in the bathtub. So out it goes for cleaning. Hung it from a backyard tree. For the faint of hearts I won't get into the details of the cleaning.