Mississippi is a particular beneficiary of this boon. Whatever the catfish stirs inside you, it is also an economic engine. They’re low in calories and fat, high in protein and taste pretty darn good. There’s fried, stewed, blackened, broiled, curried, baked, encrusted, jerked, but mostly fried. It’s said that catfish are just bottom feeding trash fish, but there are more recipes for catfish than Forrest’s friend, Bubba, had for shrimp. For this writing, we’ll leave out the sins of greed, envy and lust. Surely pride goeth before and cometh after a surfacing noodler, gasping for breath, with a slippery 20 pounder in his grasp. A devoted bass fisherman who pulls a bewhiskered Bullhead from the pond he has managed for trophy bass is possibly the best example of wrath that one could ever wish to never witness. ![]() Have a better example of sloth than a snoozer, in the shade, on a summer’s day, “watching” a milk jug trot line? I didn’t think so. There is certainly a case for gluttony, when it involves the Friday night all you can eat, fried kind of catfish. ![]() Next to the snake, few of God’s creatures evoke such passion as the catfish, even to the point of sin.
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