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Here's some local grouper with creamy seafood sauce that Mrs. Fury had last weekend at Bad to the Bone in Lumberton, Mississippi, of all places!



I had a perfect catfish PO-BOY on Leidenheimer French bread. We find good, local seafood in some out of the way places!

I am a recent subscriber to ATT Uverse TV. Last week on one of the "specialty sports channels" there was a program on "Good Ole Boy Catfish Fishing".

These robust "fisherman" were wading around in chest-deep water. They would suddenly duck down and under water, and come up with one hand and arm going into the catfish's mouth and out its gill. The fish were in excess of 30 lbs, 3 feet long, and a foot in diameter at the fattest part.

Thats what I call a CATFISH.

That is an old school way of catching catfish. I first heard of this when I was a child. We had a housekeeper whose husband and sons fished that way. they were from Morgan City, if I remember correctly. The term used for that is "noodling".

I have it on good authority from some Okie friends that you are correct, and it is called noodling.

Back to the subject: The best thing about living in Houston is that it is pretty close to New Orleans.

The second best thing about living in Houston is that it is even closer to my inlaws who live right on the coast and I can go fishing with them (or just take what they don't have room for home) and get fresh fish right out of the gulf.

If you want to run a seafood place on the coast and you want to use fish from Asia, why not just buy a franchise? Clearly, your intent is to compete on price, not provide the best of what we have to offer.

If I were you, I'd be disappointed, if not PO'd.

sore_bluto wrote:With all of the low cost, high quality locally farmed catfish, this seems insane. It's even more insane considering all of the great wild caught local fish available in that area. I guess it is all about $$$. They're hoping most patrons aren't like you and won't bother asking what they're eating.

It's so funny, most people are clueless. We are always eavesdropping (hey you can't help it most of the time) in restaurants. The amount of misinformation being passed around is ridiculous.

Schuarta wrote:I am a recent subscriber to ATT Uverse TV. Last week on one of the "specialty sports channels" there was a program on "Good Ole Boy Catfish Fishing".

These robust "fisherman" were wading around in chest-deep water. They would suddenly duck down and under water, and come up with one hand and arm going into the catfish's mouth and out its gill. The fish were in excess of 30 lbs, 3 feet long, and a foot in diameter at the fattest part.

Thats what I call a CATFISH.

I first saw the Noodling on cable TV also. Had never heard of it before that. Most of it seems to be more upcountry, although I have heard of people here that would dig them out of logs. Here the problem is, if you get in the wate, you have to beat off the gators before you ever get a chance to noodle a damned thing!

Or, you can go up to the Miss River levee a few houses from me, and catch all the catfish you want. Last week, I was talking to 2 guys trying to carry two 60+LB stingers each. They had 3 over 20lbs, and while I was talking to them, another guy latched a 30lb. Now that is right in the Miss River, so no gator problem there, but watch out for those currents if you want to noodle.

That being said, nice for them to enjoy, but I'm not going to eat them out of the Miss River! It kind of has a "smell" to it!

I like "wild caught", but I have to know where it was "live caught" at!

Now if you want REAL excitement, the best I've seen was a show Jamie Shannon from Commanders Palace did chasing down Wild Boar in the Pearl River Swamp in airboats. They would chase them down, then jump out of the boats and bulldog them, butcher them, bring them back to Commanders Palace and cook them up!

You are pretty tough to noodle, but you are VERY tough AND crazy to tackle a Wild Boar!

Not sure if it's the same thing but I once saw a video of a couple rednecks standing in a pond. They put a 55 ga. barrel on the bottom and waited for the huge catfish to be trapped in the barrel. Then they went under water and stuck their arm, up to their forearm, into the mouth and pulled it up. When they took the fish off his arm was nice and bloody.

Not too bright getting abrasions in a filthy, muddy pond.

Darwinism at it's best...

Commander's Palace has the "right idea" with serving wild boar!

While still in the SF Bay area, my nearest neighbor (I'll try to be short) was a very liberal doctor, who had been run off the road and robbed one night, turned staunch conservative, came to me for initial handgun tutoring, followed up with more advanced training from others, eventually winding up with a very rare California CCW. To hone his handgun skills he took up wild boar hunting.

Twice a year or so, he would bring home a "big one". A local Italian butcher would do the work for him and he would wind up with a freezer full of "cuts", including about 50 feet of sausage. Each success would bring about a cookout for us neighbors, and I also always wound up with a couple feet of the sausage.

That stuff was really good eating!