catfish salt water kind

[keen_2_learn]

hi to all it has been some time since i posted any thing the last post i think was about fishing in the tweed river where a chap was going for a holiday.

today though i have been browsing through the chat board and come across a post about a small catfish. what i would like to know is i have heard that catfish saltwater kind are poisoness to eat aswell as have a spike which can get very painful

could anybody confirm this for me please thank you all have a wonderful day

[Panda]

To my knowledge NO species of catfish are poisonous to eat.
But ALL species of catfish do have poisonous spines that inflict a very painfull wound.

[szopen]

I do not think that ALL species of catfish have poisonus spikes.

Plenty of different catfish worldwide.
I have caught plenty with no spikes.

[Panda]

I do not think that ALL species of catfish have poisonus spikes.

Plenty of different catfish worldwide.
I have caught plenty with no spikes.

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Caught any spikeless catfish in Aussie waters?

[ancienttinnie]

Many years ago before fisheries got into the act there were many people eating saltwater catfish and paying good money for it. It was marketed as Bay reef fish fillets and was sold skinned and boneless. Apparently it was pretty good to eat by thee amounts that were sold.

[fishingnottake]

I do not think that ALL species of catfish have poisonus spikes.

Plenty of different catfish worldwide.
I have caught plenty with no spikes.

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Caught any spikeless catfish in Aussie waters?

i'm not 100% sure they're native but i've caught salmon tail catfish like the ones you can get at pet stores and they don;t have spines, and the huge cafish they get in america seem to be spineless to.

[Motorman]

i'm not 100% sure they're native but i've caught salmon tail catfish like the ones you can get at pet stores and they don;t have spines, and the huge cafish they get in america seem to be spineless to

Yeah mate Salmontail Cats are Native
and yeah they do have spines
I have quiet a few in tanks and the spines are quite painful

Brad

[fishingnottake]

bugger i'm going to have to be more careful about how i grab them when i pull one up next time.

[Motorman]

LOL
i agree with you there
I have 2 about 35-40 cm in one tank and they are quite a handful trying to move them

Brad

[szopen]

I have not caught one in Australian waters.

Caught quite a few in Europe, a few in US and plenty in Asia.

None of them had spikes.

Still to get a really big one.

Best to date below.

[Bream_Reaper01]

The aussie ones are not poisonous at all to eat,the spines can cause painful puncture wounds,so handle carefully,the spines are not poisonous ,they build up a layer of algae on the spines and the pain comes more from this.

[Panda]

Dropped one in the boat a few years ago. The dorsal spine drove about 1.5cm into my ankle.
You can imagine the situation trying to hold the angry catfish still while I reached for the cutters to snip the spine off. Had a devil of a job pulling the spine out because they have backward raking barbs all along the spike. In the end one big wrench with the plyers and out it came. The spine is covered in a slimey skin, but the part that had been buried in my foot came out as clean white bone with the little barbs along its length clearly visible. I dont think I need to describe how painfull it was.

The Aboriginal people up here on the cape used to use catfish and stingray spines on their fighting spears back in the old days. Once the spear went in the spikes would break off if the victom tried to pull the spear out. And because of the barbs on the spines they would keep working their way through the body. So the only option if speared with one of these fighting spears was to push the spear right thru and out the other side. Even today the threat of being speared strikes more fear into peoples hearts than the threat of being shot or stabbed.

[Bream_Reaper01]

Panda,

OUCH ,like driving a nail into your own foot.

[white_boy]

hey guys i went fishing on saturday just out at cabbage tree point, now i am still getting to learn wat fish r wat wen it comes to salt water fishing but i caught wat i think was a catfish only a baby but i handled it and didnt get spiked at all, heres a pic if i am wrong and it is not a catfish can u tell me?

Shane

[Panda]

Thats what is locally known as a Putty Nosed Perch. Definately not a Catfish.

They used to be one of the main species in the Brisbane River many decades ago, but are now relatively rare. Good eating too.

[Panda]

Panda,

OUCH ,like driving a nail into your own foot.

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If I had a choice between a nail and a catfish spine I would take the nail every time. Much cleaner and easier to pull out. Plus you dont have a kilo of angry fish flapping about attached to the end of it! :)

[keen_2_learn]

8-) thank you all for the responses

[bidkev]

Thats what is locally known as a Putty Nosed Perch. Definately not a Catfish.

They used to be one of the main species in the Brisbane River many decades ago, but are now relatively rare. Good eating too.

Also known as striped threadfin salmon. Still get quite a few in the cast net around shorncliffe and strangely enough, a few burnett threadfin also.

kev

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[Louis]

G'day Keen 2 Learn,


Forktailed catfish are quite tasty although they are all head and guts so unfortunately you only get a small fillet off a large fish.

They are in plague proportions in Wivenhoe at the Moment.

Plenty in the Brisbane river also but I don't know about the polution levels in them so I personally don't eat them from the river.


Hope this helps


Louis