i thought it was dead

[slimmer]

[mad] two days in the fridge. the bull head is still alive. what do i have to kill it? it starting to freak me out. how long can they live out of water?
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[wiperhunter2]

I have never heard of one living after being frozen for two days but cutting off it's head will put a quick end to it. Cats can live out of the water longer than most fish but two days is crazy.
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[cutter4]

Ahhh maybe clean it.
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[flygoddess]

See if Jennifer Love Hewitt is available....that could be a win win for any guy[]
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[Duckbutter]

Fill up your bathtub and try to revive it!
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[MR.PIKE]

[quote flygoddess]See if Jennifer Love Hewitt is available....that could be a win win for any guy[][/quote]


I like your style.
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[remo_5_0]

Why not kill it and clean it? And why is your user name Slimmer? Did you lose weight?
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[slimmer]

[cool] ya just a little slimmer than i used to be. thanks for asking. as for the mudder i was just going to cut it up for bait on my next fishing trip for pike. i guess that is illegal so i think bury it in the garden. it deserves it.
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[fishing4thehog]

[quote cutter4]Ahhh maybe clean it.[/quote]
Clean it ?? Its lived in water its entire life.. How clean do you need it ?? [laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh]
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[cutter4]

Ahh ha ha ho hee hee[]
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[ChubbyChaser]

How about kill it so it doesnt have to suffer? How would you like to be forced to drown slowly over several days? [mad]
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[fishnate]

Burying it in the garden is also illegal as is keeping a live game fish away from the water it was taken from. Read the regs, it in there[]. Eat it! Mud cats taste about as good as channel cats.
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[Fishrmn]

[quote fishnate]Burying it in the garden is also illegal as is keeping a live game fish away from the water it was taken from. Read the regs, it in there[]. Eat it! Mud cats taste about as good as channel cats.[/quote]

Well….?

In 2013, however, the Utah Legislature passed a new law that allows anglers to dispose of carp and a few other species—particularly species under catch-and-kill orders at certain waterbodies—without violating the state’s wasting statute. If you visit any of the following waters and catch any of the species listed for those waters, you may dispose of them:
• Deer Creek Reservoir: white bass and black bullhead

I'm thinking that Bullheads from any other water cannot be wasted, or used in a manner that is not normally associated with its beneficial use. However, from Deer Creek they are exempt from that regulation.


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[adam19]

I cut through right behind its head just through the spine... I resorted to that after getting a knife stuck in its head and then hitting it with a hammer that launched it across the kitchen. Or put a drill and bit through its head?
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[doggonefishin]

Why not just fillet it?

That always does the trick.
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[fishnate]

I don't see "Deer Creek" mentioned prior to my response. No way to determine if the fish was caught from DC. However if it was...

From 2014 Fishing Guide Book

Deer Creek Reservoir, Wasatch County
• No limit on white bass or black bullhead
catfish. Anglers must not release any
white bass or black bullhead catfish they
catch. All white bass or black bullhead
catfish must be immediately killed.

(emphasis added).

Stick a knife in its gills and it won't survive long. You are correct that mandatory kill species are allowed to be discarded.
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[pezvela]

There was a time long, long ago when the apache Indians of what is now northern Mexico caught one that wouldn't give up the ghost, as your particular specimen didn't, so they staked it to an ant hill to suffer, but the muddie ate all of the ants and gained enough strength to escape.

Nearly 150 years later that very same fish, of which your muddie is no doubt progeny, still lives having taken up residence under the London Bridge on Lake Havasua .

Local residents tell tales of seeing this diminutive mud cat walking the desert under the full Arizona moon still lamenting its loss of its beloved Tijuana and its momma kitty. Adios and Via Condios.

"A kitty in the ice box is worth two in the rose garden"

[slimmer]

[frown] thanks for making it so i cant sleep at nights. i am sure i will have nightmares of the thing. today after 3 days in the fridge i took it out . guess what sill alive but not to active. but when you touched it would wiggle and gasp for air. i have had enough. fillet it and its heart was still moving. freaked me out big time. burried in garden. hoping it wont haunt me
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[carplips]

Catfish are one tough fish.
When they transplanted them out of the Green to Utah Lake, they put them in a semi layered.... starting with a row of fish, some wet burlap, a piece of plywood, a row of fish, burlap, plywood, repeat.
They lasted lots of hours with very few lost.
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[brookieguy1]

[quote carplips]Catfish are one tough fish.
When they transplanted them out of the Green to Utah Lake, they put them in a semi layered.... starting with a row of fish, some wet burlap, a piece of plywood, a row of fish, burlap, plywood, repeat.
They lasted lots of hours with very few lost.[/quote]Huh?
Not doubting you, but could you bring up some data on this stocking event?
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