anybody ever eat one? we caught a bunch of them sunday and my buddy said he has cooked them before. they were pretty decent sized. are they any good? we cleaned them, and they don't look too bad. but dang those things were slimy. my boat is filthy now!

My coworker says they are good will get the info and post it later this evening!

thanks, we cleaned a ton of them, bunch of them in the 7-10lb range

I have a coworker who steaks them and grills them and use your personal preference for seasoning like a shark or make a good gumbo with them fully skinned and cut into thick nuggets. I am going to have to try them myself.

I have eaten them fried in Louisiana fish fry and they were fine. Similar to a freshwater channel cat in my opinion.

Gaftops are really good eating...they fry up really nice.

They just slime everything in sight - that slime is a pain to get off the boat and your hands.

I've heard if you lick the slime you'll have hallucinations!! LOL!!

i think we are gonna fry some and grill some. kind of curious to try em. i was wishing my boat didn't have carpet after this weekend. we had the slime everywhere.....I may have to throw my net away.

Gafftops are plenty good on the plate. I've fried them, grilled them, put them in gumbo, and basically used them the same way I would a channel cat in fresh water. They have enough gorilla snot on them to grease a bulldozer, though.

Catfish slime is no problem. Just let it dry & it'll brush right off your carpet.

quote=SAK]Catfish slime is no problem. Just let it dry & it'll brush right off your carpet.[/quote]

Good luck with that! Gaftop slime is like...well, kinda like baby batter if you know what I mean.

i hate gaftops, they taste like they smell. and they do have a distinctive smell.

Uverse - I guess you must have got ahold of a bad one.

I have caught many gaftops before and fried them just like I would freshwater fish and they taste great. They taste very similar to bluecat.

Allot of people cant get past the slime - when you catch them.

I've eaten gaftop all my life and they cook up just fine. I've eaten them almost anyway that you can cook a fish.

Yep very good eating fish after you fillet them you will see some dark red meat in the fillets well cut that part out and it will taste lot better.

Good eatin' fish, nothing wrong with them at all. I generally dont keep'em cuz i dont like to clean them but they are good to eat.