eel tailed catfish

[hero]

Can you eat eel tailed catfish, hate waste.....

[bakes]

Yeh you can eat them they arent to bad a bit muddy but they are a pain cause u have gotta skin them but try ripping the skin off

[budgebass]

Hey Hero

Eel tail catfish some people love them to eat, some people don't.....but here is a tip from the rellies....little fish are sweet...anything over about 45cm gets too fatty.....hence the muddy taste...

Cheers
;D ;D 8)

[Jim_Tait]

You can enjoy eating eel tailed catfish of any size if your cook them properly - they are a bit fatty / oily but that is a good thing if you smoke or grill them.

You don't have to skin them, just cook the whole fish but put verticle cuts (to the back bone) about 4 cm apart down the full length of both flanks before grilling or smoking and most of the fat and oil will drain out leaving ypur with moist flaking flesh - very seldom taste too muddy if you do it this way - It is a Papua New Guinean style of cooking them - in the bush cook slowly on a piece of ark mesh or green sapling grill rack just out of reach of the lick of the flame over a open fire (half smoking, half grilling) make sure you rub a bit of salt into the open cuts before hand - take as long as possible to cook them slowly and you'' end up with a delicious feed in the end.

Regards - Jim

[fishingtictac]

I smoke them most of the time but have also pan fried them.Have eaten them since I was a boy.Most of the time that was all we seem to catch.
The muddy taste usually depends on on the area where your catching them.I fillet them and soak the fillets in milk overnight.I have never had a muddy taste after soaking them in milk.

[Codswallop]

G'Day Hero.

I have been eating these slimy buggers for years, and find them quite palatable. I skin the flesh using a set of pliers, then fillet the fish. Soak the fillets overnight (if you have the milk to do so), and pan fry as you would any other. Have caught two large fish (over 70 cm) in the last two weekends at Cressbrook. Gave one to a mate, and he cooked it for his children. They loved it! No bones to worry them, and minimal mud/weed taste. I guess when all is said and done, it all comes down to preferred taste. Cheers mate,
Codswallop

[Codswallop]

G'Day Hero.

I have been eating these slimy buggers for years, and find them quite palatable. I skin the flesh using a set of pliers, then fillet the fish. Soak the fillets overnight (if you have the milk to do so), and pan fry as you would any other. Have caught two large fish (over 70 cm) in the last two weekends at Cressbrook. Gave one to a mate, and he cooked it for his children. They loved it! No bones to worry them, and minimal mud/weed taste. I guess when all is said and done, it all comes down to preferred taste. Cheers mate,
Codswallop

[Squizy]

Bloody oath you can eat Cat fish!!
I am the luckey recipiant of Codswallop's Catty.
If you Bleed and clean the fish on site you will have beautiful white flesh. To skin them slice around the head going behind the Pec fins and slice allong either side of the dorsal finn, using a pair of plyers peel the skin of in two pices then fillet.
I do mine up in a Beer (Mmmmm Beer) Batter. It is very similar to Flake if prepaired properly. No need to soak in milk if bled.
Enjoy. :D :D :D

[fishin]

hey yeh i catch them a fair bit they are good eatin i find as long as u skin them fresh like as soon and u catch them and if u cook them in alfoil with some bacon it is real nice

[fishy_phil]

gday
the way i do it is similar but i just catch em, skinem and fillet them on the river...much easier and less slime!!! put the fillets in plastic bags then on ice till they get coated in seasoning and flour then pan fried, bloody beautiful. or i just catch em take off the head take out the backbone skin on and cook em over a fire. but it also helps that where i catch em is in a crystal clean stream and sight fish em, spot em and cast a bait to em and wait till they take the bait and there we have it. ready to get eaten beautiful!!!
cheers
phil
ps with saltwater eeltail catfish :-X i find some smoth rocks put cleaned fish in billy with rocks boil till rocks soft, throw away catfish and eat the rocks!!! ;D ;D :o :o