Hello, new to the forum

[hunteroffish]

Hello everyone, looking forward to learning a lot here. I'm in the Nampa, Id area and plan to fish the snake river to start. looking for anything but catfish till i learn how to prepare them
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[albinotrout]

Welcome to the boards. Here is a link to the Idaho boards. I will also move it to the Idaho board so that others will be able to know you're here as well.

[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?category=22"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?category=22[/url]

Also a link to the freshwater fishing board

[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/gforum.cgi?category=70"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/gforum.cgi?category=70[/url]
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[Kodiak1]

Anyone who has caught a 49 lb. king is my kind of fisherman! Welcome to the site. I am from Boise, so any questions, just drop me a PM. Mike
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[windriver]

Welcome to BFT.

Windriver
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[hunteroffish]

Thank you !
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[hunteroffish]

Thank you
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[drowning_flys]

welcome aboard [cool]
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[Bassnbob]

Welcome to BFT Idaho!! Glad to see more joining up. I'm over in the Meridian area and mostly fish for bass.
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[mr.jigr12]

Anything but cats? You have some awesome catfishing right there in your back yard! Easy for kids to catch tons of them as well! I drive from Twin Falls just to fish for them! Fillet the smaller ones and just make sure you remove the blood line and any meat that has a yellow tint! Don't keep any fish above about 3- 4 lbs and they won't have any mud taste! You can also target huge fish over there instead of numbers if you want to!
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[hunteroffish]

Thanks, I have heard they are tasty but never cooked one up so I've been a little intimidated by them. I hate to admit it but i have been letting them go. Next one I get I'll try it.
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[cpierce]

Catfish are a little different to cook. They take a lot longer time. So if you are grilling etc cook them at least twice as long as you would a bass or trout etc. They are very good eating!
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[hunteroffish]

I have heard I should bleed them out good too. Is that true? Watching a few noodlers on TV that cut them at the tail and hang them for a few hours. I haved always just pulled the gills on bigger fish so I'm wondering. Appreciate the feedback, Thank you
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[hooknhunter]

A good friend of mine schooled me on how to do it. Until I tried taking care of it using his method, I didn't like it.

Fillet as normal, remove any meat that is not the best/purest white meat (removing any grey, pink, yellow, etc), then soak the meat in salt water for at least 24 hours. Don't be shy on the salt. I suppose you could over do it, but I have a tendency to under do it. The soaking will firm up the meat and help to remove oils.

After a good soaking, rinse off the remaining salt water and cook to your favorite method/recipe. I prefer deep frying, but I'm sure it would be good BBQ'd, baked or ????
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[cpierce]

I bleed out and ice any fish that I am going to eat.

On catfish first cut the spines off with a pair of wire cutters. It saves wear and tear on me. Bleed them, Then fillet and skin them.

Also as was mentioned before, remove any of the darker colored flesh.

TubeDude from Utah is one of BFT's resident specialist on catfish. Take a look at the pfds he posted in this forum post. Also if you have a smoker, search for his "smokin catfish" pfd.

[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=748103 "]www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=748103 [/url]
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