thanks....Rango... now is the red like meat stripes in the meat, or veins? I sure love catfish nuggets. Ate about a 4 pound channel cat the other evening, I stumbled on crappie fishing... it was some kind of good. I just fillet it like a crappie and took the skin off the same way. But I don't recall any red meat...I guess I didn't know to look for it. Everything I ate was good, nothing bad about the taste at all.