Somebody already did- called epoxy. At least it's the equivalent of epoxy when it dries on a boat deck.

See there- natures provisional generic for polyurethane. Satisfies the new green deal issue.

My Pops used to call them “Yodelin’ Trout”

Tourist trout some folks around here call them.

They are a pain when you are going for Reds!

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Can’t stand them. They are a real PITA. Like someone else stated if I never caught another I would a happy…

Hardhead catfish taste _exactly_ like catfish, because they are catfish. They're curiously about half head tho, so you get much smaller fillets than you're expecting. I recommend keeping every single one you catch and either eating it or using as bait. They have a spring migration, so if you're unlucky enough to be fishing near a pass at that time you will catch nothing else.

A note on the stings, all catfish have venomous and barbed spines. Heating renders the toxins. Personal experience can attest.
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/catfish-sting

People only hate catching hardheads because they've spoiled by the fantastic fishing on the Texas coast.

They might taste like Momma’s pecan pie.
I’ll never know.

But please go catch a dumpster load. And talk as many people as you can in them catching all they can too.

Nasty slimy things are a pain in the tail. Luckily I only fish the surf in saltwater and don’t seem to run in to too many of them when fishing with live bait, especially if I’m using bigger 6-8” mullet. Getting finned by one can be nasty, potentially deadly if it gets infected, getting stuck by a channel cat is not even close to getting stuck by one of those nasty things. I’ve never eaten one, however, I have eaten gaftop and they’re not too bad.

One did a double back flip off my hook and stuck a fin all the way thru my shoe and out the bottom of my foot. A few days later, it turned green. I had a Vietnamese doc and she took it seriously.

We've eaten a number of them. They are not nearly as good as gafftops. We'll keep every gafftop we catch over about a pound.

We need to be in a tight spot for dinner to keep hardheads - much fishier flavor - and not fishy in a way we like like mackerel.

For reference, we'll keep Jack Crevalle before hard heads.

Anyone who eats a Jack is for sure hard up fish hungry. And anyone who actually has an opinion that ranks hard head below a jack is someone who knows what nasty tastes like.

There is a good fishy taste. I would put Bluefish in the category of good fishy taste.

The more I read about fish the more I realize how fish are handled after the catch makes a big difference on flavor and storage potential.

Ike Jime, the way to get the best out of fish.
https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en/article/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime