Quote Originally Posted by cricket george View Post
If you will feel for a small indentation in the middle of catfish’s head there you will find the entrance to the brain. Take a sharp knife and put a tiny slit in the skin. Next take a broom straw and insert the straw in the channel and push it into the brain. Spin the straw in your fingers and the catfish will shudder and be dead humanely. You just scrambled it’s brain.
My mom, how is 84 now, had grown up in the country in east TX. She taught me this when I was a kid. Works like a charm...only trouble I have is finding long stiff broom straws for bigger catfish. I'm thinking of using weed trimmer string next time if it's a big enough fish.