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December 15, 2012

Catfish Grabs Pigeon


2 comments:

Barb said...

Saw this just recently. Pretty smart fish if you ask me.

We never get cat fish that big up here. Must be the cold winters. But they were the first fish I learned how to catch in a little farm pond. Learned the bard way about the barbs they have too.

Mike said...

Me and a friend kicked around the idea of raising some catfish and I did a lot of research on them. They don't eat much during cold weather and consequently don't have much growth.

We finally decided against the enterprise; my friend thought you could just throw the fish in a stock tank and that was it. After I told him it would take much more time, effort and money, he backed out.

Plus, it's hard to compete against the Chinese imports. There are not that many US catfish farms left. You'd have to hold a gun on me to make me eat any fish imported from the Far East.

The barbs not only can deeply pierce the skin, they have some horrible bacteria on them. There's another YT video of "speed cleaning" catfish, basically taking an electric knife and filleting them; pretty darn cool and the only way I will ever do them in the future.