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How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning #14349708 04/22/22 12:42 PM
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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14349867 04/22/22 03:56 PM
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Ok, now this is getting stupid.
Jack Crevalle was bad, nobody ever eats on of those bloody nasty things.

HARDHEAD? I'll scrape the mold off a cheese sandwich before I'd eat hardhead.


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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14349911 04/22/22 04:49 PM
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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14349922 04/22/22 05:02 PM
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Actually, there are quite a few people that eat H-Heads. Maybe not around here but on the East Coast they do. First ya got to cut the tail off and let it bleed.....Geek didn't do this or fillet it right anyway. The fish has a rib cage and the meat on the inner (Belly meat) side is good also. No bones and makes for a good third fillet!!

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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14349971 04/22/22 05:55 PM
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It might taste like chocolate cake.

I'll never know.


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horrid & not worth it
the only good thing is
he killed them

Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14350444 04/23/22 04:07 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DbbZ6bNlx4

Lots of examples on YouTube.... eeks

Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14350619 04/23/22 03:40 PM
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I’d eat a seagull before a hardhead.


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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14355697 04/29/22 12:57 PM
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Something to keep in mind if times get tough.


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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14359955 05/04/22 07:36 PM
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That is exactly the way I fillet channel cats. I have never cleaned a hardhead. My stepson kept some gafftop from our last Louisiana trip.
He said they were " OK " not as good as channels.

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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: Mo] #14361337 05/06/22 12:27 PM
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My wife trims out the red meat carefully from the gafftops, and we like them slightly better than channels.


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Big heads, low on meat, but gafftops are good eating. I'd only eat a hard head if I had to.

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Originally Posted by malibu6501
Big heads, low on meat, but gafftops are good eating. I'd only eat a hard head if I had to.


Good points.


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Re: How to Fillet Hardhead Catfish Quickly Without Skinning [Re: MathGeek] #14368788 05/16/22 03:05 AM
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I've still got knots in my fingers from getting harpooned by hardheads as a kid. Other than taking care of a dead body dumped in the bay, I find no redeeming qualities of a hardhead.


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