Thread: A week at Santee

glad you had a good time in the swamp Ray I know you love the place and its
always good to get to go to one of favorite spots
hope to see you soon bud.
ps your pics didn't show up


oops !! maybe its my computer didn't show them
didn't see lloakley replytill after I made mine
well they did show up nice pics
thanks for sharing

OK here is the now I've seen everything part. Henry has a rather eccentric, but likeable neighbor down the street who stops by at all hours for a visit, usually after dark and most times on horseback. Henry had promised him some fish but he insisted that they not be cleaned, he would do that he said. He stopped by while we were cleaning a batch and Henry gave him a mess of fish straight out of the water. We were putting the carcasses in a 5 gallon bucket which we normally carried out into the lake and discarded. He said he wanted the scraps to feed to Wilbur, his 300+ pound pig. He has a good bit of land across from his house and he has a barn with horses and now, I learn, a 300 lb pig named Wilbur.
Anyway Henry promised to run the bucket of fish carcasses down to him when we finished cleaning he fish which he later did.

We had a fish fry that night and had just finished a great meal of fried fish, Santee Potatoes, slaw and apple cobbler with ice cream when in pops the neighbor with a platter covered in foil and announced his wife had prepared a delicacy especially for Henry. When he uncovered the platter, it was whole battered and fried fish skeletons. Henry is seldom at a loss for words but this was one occasion. He insisted we try them so Henry took a tiny bite off the tail fin and told him it was good, but we were all full from just eating a meal and we would save for later.
If anyone is interested in a platter of fried fish carcasses send me a PM and we will mail them to you.

Those are all yours Ray! I have seen others cook fish that way but for myself I'll pass.

Ray, I'm sure that if they were served at my house back when I was young they would have been nibbled on. We had 13 people at the table most times at supper when I was growing up. We wouldn't have thought of it as a joke! My cousins lived with us until we all got big enough to leave on our own. We had a lot of things put on the table in front of us that were questionable but we ate it anyway and it didn't kill us. Could have been possum

Ray we used to do that all the time. We would cut the heads off and fry the skeleton. I still do it if I leave a bunch of meat on the bones when I filet crappie.

Ray , Looks like ya'll had a great time.But as far as the skinny fish go....Well .....I pass...

think ill pass on that one too Ray "Sweetie" got a good laugh out of though
said she would pass too so looks like you and Henry get um all

I always liked fried tail fin, but that's a bit over the edge for me