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To: LindyBill who wrote (25133)	1/19/2004 8:47:20 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

When I lived near Panama City, Florida, I lived right on the beach and fished daily from my back yard. I always hated to catch a catfish. They had those nasty spikes that could really hurt you when you tried to get them off the hook and they "weren't edible." We ate the whiting I caught. And the scallops and oysters I got by snorkeling. I realize that fresh water catfish are a different critter but I have flashbacks to my catfish experience whenever I contemplate eating one. I had catfish once, at one of those fancy "peach" hotels the first time I was in Atlanta on business. Figured I had an obligation to try it. Haven't had it since. Adore salmon. Most of the salmon I eat is in the form of sashimi so it isn't farm raised. I do fix the farm-raised kind, though, when I'm inclined to cook, which isn't very often. I bake a big slab of it and then pick at it for days.

To: LindyBill who wrote (25133)	1/19/2004 4:53:37 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793707

<<I have lived in the south and know what catfish eat. No "bottom feeders" for me, thank you.>> I don't know what they eat in the South but up here they eat the same things that the $12 per pound walleyes eat, mainly bait fish and crawfish. I've fried catfish filets along with walleye filets and they eat the same. Farm raised catfish eat the same thing farm raised salmon and trout do, commercial fish pellets. That's channel cats that they raise, flatheads won't eat anything that isn't alive. Now if you catch a catfish that's in warm stagnant water, toss him back, he'll taste worse than a burnt tire. I have a friend who only fishes for catfish and has averaged 400 fish a year for over 50 years. Odd thing is, he's never eaten a bite of anything that's come out of the water in his life.