Thread: Crappie bad, Flathead good. 8/12/20

Originally Posted by USMA65

How did y'all prepare the cat? My favorite way to eat catfish is steaks, but you rarely see anyone fix them that way anymore.

Steaks? Explain this to me please


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Originally Posted by GREENFISH

Steaks? Explain this to me please


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Greenfish, I have never steaked a catfish or any other fish for that matter, but what I think to steak a fish is to make vertical cuts across the back of a whole fish, down both sides to the desired thickness. Then cook it, how I don’t know? I don’t mess with the bones. Someone who knows please edify all of us and give us the reasons why this is so good. Grin.

Originally Posted by GREENFISH

Steaks? Explain this to me please


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I am from Memphis and many places around there served catfish steaks. A steak is where a whole fish is laid on its side and starting at the tail sections are cut all the way thru the fish and going all the way to the rib cage. Thinner steaks cook more quickly and are my favorite. The taste of any meat is better if cooked with the bone. This is true of beef, pork, chicken and fish. Yes, negotiating the bones can be tricky, but many enjoy whole fish, and all steaks are is mini sections of the whole fish. The old Tackle Box Restaurant in Harmontown, MS, just before you got to Holiday Lodge on Sardis was my favorite place for steaks. But I have had them at Reelfoot, Perryville, TN, on the TN River, down around Shiloh on the TN River, and in Arkansas over the years. We have become a filet culture, but give it a try next time you clean a catfish; you will not be disappointed.

Originally Posted by USMA65

I am from Memphis and many places around there served catfish steaks. A steak is where a whole fish is laid on its side and starting at the tail sections are cut all the way thru the fish and going all the way to the rib cage. Thinner steaks cook more quickly and are my favorite. The taste of any meat is better if cooked with the bone. This is true of beef, pork, chicken and fish. Yes, negotiating the bones can be tricky, but many enjoy whole fish, and all steaks are is mini sections of the whole fish. The old Tackle Box Restaurant in Harmontown, MS, just before you got to Holiday Lodge on Sardis was my favorite place for steaks. But I have had them at Reelfoot, Perryville, TN, on the TN River, down around Shiloh on the TN River, and in Arkansas over the years. We have become a filet culture, but give it a try next time you clean a catfish; you will not be disappointed.

How are they cooked?
Fried, baked, broiled, smoked?
I've never had catfish steak, but would like to give them a try.

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Originally Posted by slowhand

How are they cooked?
Fried, baked, broiled, smoked?
I've never had catfish steak, but would like to give them a try.

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Fried is the only way I have ever had them.

Drumking, I am not trying to hijack your thread, but your catching the cat started it all !!! Keep it up, we love your reports !!!