How do you cook a big catfish?

[zhitoman]

With all those talks about catfish I decided to give it a try. So tonight i went to a well known lake in Monmouth county. I had 3 catfish rods, the bait of choice was chicken hearts. I was hoping to catch some bullheads, or small channels. Spent about 5 hours there with no results. Then when it was already after 9, I was lucky enough to get a 18 lb channel catfish. I am still shaking lol. So how should I cook it?

[bigfishy]

Not exactly sure how, as i've never done it...But pretty sure you've gotta filet or chunk the meat...I personally like it with the skin on, unless i got super muddy during the catch and landing...

Well chunk it up, salt , pepper or any oter dy spices you prefer and deep fry it or pan fry t....My favorite is in regular olive oil....Sometimes ifry just with th spices or somtimes i do a egg wash and bread crumb dip before frying it...

Congrats on the beast and try to post some pics before you chop it up

[gnuisance]

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[acabtp]

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[Eskimo]

Originally Posted by zhitoman

I was lucky enough to get a 18 lb channel catfish.

PICS or it never happened.

Check with Youtube. They always have good fish preparation videos.

I have never had this problem. From what I gather, you gut and skin the catfish. Then, starting from behind the head, you cut the fish into 1" wide steaks until you get to a portion of the fish where the filleted meat would be under 1" in thickness. Then you cut the fillets off the fish.

[dboyd101]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

PICS or it never happened.

Check with Youtube. They always have good fish preparation videos.

I have never had this problem. From what I gather, you gut and skin the catfish. Then, starting from behind the head, you cut the fish into 1" wide steaks until you get to a portion of the fish where the filleted meat would be under 1" in thickness. Then you cut the fillets off the fish.

Nom. Catfish filets. Nom.

[Fish n Jeep]

From what I've read, they are tastier if you cut the gills and bleed them out on ice before fileting them. I would think this is probably true for most fish.

[nutleysigns]

in a BIG PAN lol

[zhitoman]

Here the picture, i know it sucks but that's the best i could do.

[june181901]

Skin it, filet it cut in chunks and dip it in corn meal. Fry it covered in corn oil or vegetable oil after heating the oil.
Learned that when I was stationed in SC.