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Originally Posted by Andy C
it been posted before "maybe mathgeak" not sure but like 70 some +% of catfish you get at restrants are hardheads or sail cat........
I never eat fish that i dident catch and clean. Got sick one time on "fresh fish at a fry" and it had lots of bones in the few pices i got!!
Never again
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Great point. From the moment it's caught, it's not wildlife anymore, it's food, and it needs to be taken care of as food, which means getting it on ice quickly and keeping plenty of ice in the cooler until it's cleaned. We buy 40 lbs of ice for a 100 qt ice chest, and we are careful to keep the ice on top of the fish and to dump a bag of ice out once there are plenty of fish to cover.
Care and clean facilities when cleaning fish are a must, followed by a quick trip into the zip lock bags and then into the freezer.
Cold, cold, cold. Clean, clean, clean. I'll even take a break when cleaning a mess of fish to help myself do a good job and resist the temptation to cut corners. We've watched a lot of folks clean fish at Calc Pt and a lot of guys are almost as careful as we are, but a lot of guys rush, leave fish sit in the sun, package fillets in ice bags and walmart bags, use knives of questionable cleanliness, etc.