On 3/14/2017 3:05 PM, dsi1 wrote:

>> A catfish is what put me off a lot of river fish. we used to fish for them
>> just about every night in the Sacramento River using clams for bait, caught
>> a fairly large one one evening and when it was cut open to clean, it was the
>> worst smelling thing I had ever smelled up to that point, absolutely
>> nauseating smell that I hope never to smell again. No more catfish for me,
>> and many other fish types too. DH is a fisherman so he eats all of his
>> catches, not me.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Catfish is very easy to filet - once you skin 'em. They're really beautiful pieces of meat too. It cooks up great. The taste made me gag though. My guess is that some (lucky) people are not able to taste that flavor component. Tilapia has that taste too. My understanding is that tilapia raised in salt water will taste fine. Well, lets start doing that then.
>

I've had farmed catfish and it was OK. Not my first choice, but if
served, I'll eat it. Tilapia eats crap too so I avoid it.