Catfish.

[DuaneWessels]

Free swimming baber is lovely to eat....those fatties from the dams not so much, you can actually taste the mud. We used to go to Harrismith for school holidays and my uncle would take us to Sterkfontein and we would target the babers with some chicken hearts. They tasted kak.

But these days I catch and release and do not target baber so much anymore. Catching a good size carp in the river is much more fun, last weekend I had a nice fight to land a 8kg carp.

[treeman]

Barbel Carp -= getting old.

[SBB]

Catfish Recipe.

Gut the catfish
Nail the catfish through the head to a tree and cut the skin just behind the head and with a pair of pliers pull the skin away from the head towards the tail.
Now the catfish is clean and skinned.
Light a fire and crack an ice cold one.
Take two planks the size of the catfish and lay the catfish on the one.
Season with garlic salt, freshly ground black pepper and fill the stomach cavity with a mixture of chopped onion and tomato.
Place the second plank on the catfish and bind the two together with the catfish in the middle with binding wire.
Leave the catfish to bake in the sun for 5 hours.
Remove the binding wire then remove the catfish and throw the catfish away.
Slice up the planks and serve with lemon wedges and a fresh salad, they will be tastier than the catfish.

Hahaha.

So kinda the same recipe as Egyptian Goose then, just substituting a 44 Gallon drum for 2 planks ;)

[Horsey031]

So awesome! The biggest fish I've ever caught looks like a guppie!

[WhiteCottonFluff]

My dad used to cook carp and catfish for my family all the time when I was young, it was amazing.

I always wanted to cook some myself, anyone knows whether the fish at hartbeespoort are edible? I was last there when the sluices were opened so the water was covered in shit.

(ok just googled it...I'm not fond of sewerage and apparent nuclear waste so I'll pass)

[Maroelas]

and apparent nuclear waste so I'll pass)

Could lead to some monster fish...in all senses of the word

[Messor]

Could lead to some monster fish...in all senses of the word

The catfish living at chernobyl are doing just fine, so I doubt it.

Those living in GP I'd avoid even more.

[Trompie 04]

For a fish to be a record, the angler must comply with the fishing rules, which includes line weight and whatnot.

That 42.5 is not a record of the largest specimen ever found, which I doubt have been documented, it's a record under a fishing discipline/sport.

Fish over 30kg are plentiful in the orange, at T-stone's location much bigger stuff than 42.5kg's are swimming around.

In one of Charles Norman's books he stated the biggest catfish ever found in SA was 1941 when the vaal dam overflowed. A 140kg dead catfish with a Coot stuck in its throat was found floating somewhere.

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[Antlion]

Those were hippos, Antlion.

[Gert Odendaal]

Heard some stories of excellent fish cakes made from barbell, also carp.

But heard once that you can keep you steaks, crayfish, etc, Tigerfish takes them all.

Edit: With that said, I do not think it is in everyone to make a good fish, takes some good knowledge / experience and know how ( not the type where all snowflakes of today think they know everything)

No,no,you will make a big mistake when trying to use Tigerfish for making fishcakes.Tiger fish is too full of "vis grate " or fish bones ...and way too much oil/fat tissue in the meat...

I caught a lot of Tiger fish in the Komati/Lomati /Crocodile river at Komatipoort , I grew up there and can assure you Tiger fish was never use for fish cakes. We frequently deep fried blue kurper, yellow fish had a lot of "grate " as well, we always put them back.

Paling/Mozambique eel/paling was delicious to bake in the oven as well...first a halve an hour in the pressure cooker, then bake with lemon juice /jam ...

Buy Babel was a great fish to eat...
This size carp I release...to grow bigger...


This size bass I fillet and braai with the skin/scales on :

These ones I swam out :