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Catfish barbs hurt like a *******. Ouch.

And you gotta get it out of there or it will keep going deeper. A lot like a porcupine quill.
 
I bet she had some serious complications after the fact. Even a small scrape from a catfish spine can do major damage and cause severe pain. Saltwater cats have poison in their spikes, so there's that bit of fun to think about too. The worst part, however, is that if not treated quickly, you get secondary infections that will put you down. Hard. Catfish are scavengers and bottom feeders, which mean they eat the vilest, grossest, and deadest stuff in the lake/body of water. They are covered with bacteria, so even a small poke will likely spread gobs of the unwanted **** into your body. I've had small puncture wounds on my hands many times over the years and they hurt like the wolf. I can count on that part of my hand to be sore for up to a week in most cases. I can't imagine what a full on, deep tissue, knife-poke like that chick got is going to feel like a few days after the fact. That **** should have been pulled out immediately! I bet she had to have surgery to get the fragments of spine out of there.

Old time remedies say that if you get poked, you should rub the slime from the body of the fish into the wound. I think I will pass on that one, thanks.
 
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E.J. Wells said:
I bet she had some serious complications after the fact. Even a small scrape from a catfish spine can do major damage and cause severe pain. Saltwater cats have poison in their spikes, so there's that bit of fun to think about too. The worst part, however, is that if not treated quickly, you get secondary infections that will put you down. Hard. Catfish are scavengers and bottom feeders, which mean they eat the vilest, grossest, and deadest stuff in the lake/body of water. They are covered with bacteria, so even a small poke will likely spread gobs of the unwanted **** into your body. I've had small puncture wounds on my hands many times over the years and they hurt like the wolf. I can count on that part of my hand to be sore for up to a week in most cases. I can't imagine what a full on, deep tissue, knife-poke like that chick got is going to feel like a few days after the fact. That **** should have been pulled out immediately! I bet she had to have surgery to get the fragments of spine out of there.

Old time remedies say that if you get poked, you should rub the slime from the body of the fish into the wound. I think I will pass on that one, thanks.
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you eat those catfish?
 
DutchJazzer said:
in short you are a redneck?
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Riiiiight. I know tons of rednecks who take the time to stalk, fool, catch, clean, prepare, and eat a fairly elusive fish (for Utah at least) that is world famous for it's flavor.

In short, you are a dumbass Euro (with rotten teeth)?
 
E.J. Wells said:
Riiiiight. I know tons of rednecks who take the time to stalk, fool, catch, clean, prepare, and eat a fairly elusive fish (for Utah at least) that is world famous for it's flavor.

In short, you are a dumbass Euro (with rotten teeth)?
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I can fix the elusive part for you....Pineview Reservoir at the north end of the lake in the shallows and just beyond into deeper water, and the Weber river as it goes through farm country west of Ogden. Channel cats and one other variety iirc. At pineview just be prepared to go through a fair share of carp in between the catfish.

edit: Pineview apparently has bullhead, but I seem to remember catching more than a few channel cats there as well. Anyway, there are cats there and they used to be fairly abundant anyway (say 6 or 7 years ago).
 
Catfish are also incredibly hard to kill. I remember catching a ton of them with my cousins and my grandpa when I was about 14. We had them in a gunny sack in his trunk for the next 3 hours after clubbing most of them because they wouldn't stop flipping around. We went back to my grandpa's house where he had a piece of property and in a shallow depression in his back yard we dumped out the gunny sack, maybe 20 fish among us all, and when we put water in the depression with them every single one started trying to swim around. Crazy. And, in the end, delicious.
 
E.J. Wells said:
Riiiiight. I know tons of rednecks who take the time to stalk, fool, catch, clean, prepare, and eat a fairly elusive fish (for Utah at least) that is world famous for it's flavor.

In short, you are a dumbass Euro (with rotten teeth)?
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do you see it as an insult?

did not mean it as an insult.

rednecks are awesome. they know how toh have a good time
 
LogGrad98 said:
I can fix the elusive part for you....Pineview Reservoir at the north end of the lake in the shallows and just beyond into deeper water, and the Weber river as it goes through farm country west of Ogden. Channel cats and one other variety iirc. At pineview just be prepared to go through a fair share of carp in between the catfish.

edit: Pineview apparently has bullhead, but I seem to remember catching more than a few channel cats there as well. Anyway, there are cats there and they used to be fairly abundant anyway (say 6 or 7 years ago).
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I don't think there are any channel cats in Pineview. If there are, I've never seen one. I have caught thousands of bullhead there, including one that missed the state record by an eight of an inch.

Bullhead are horribly gross to eat, so they don't count.

LogGrad98 said:
Catfish are also incredibly hard to kill. I remember catching a ton of them with my cousins and my grandpa when I was about 14. We had them in a gunny sack in his trunk for the next 3 hours after clubbing most of them because they wouldn't stop flipping around. We went back to my grandpa's house where he had a piece of property and in a shallow depression in his back yard we dumped out the gunny sack, maybe 20 fish among us all, and when we put water in the depression with them every single one started trying to swim around. Crazy. And, in the end, delicious.
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I can agree with this. To say they are hearty would be a massive understatement. Catfish, Carp, and Cockroaches will eventually rule the multiverse.
 
I grew up handfishin.. probably caught 2000+ catfish by reachin under rocks, roots, etc.. and pulling them out and tossin'm in a cooler for later cookin. This whole term, 'noodlin'.. bugs the **** out of me. Noodlin? That's the best ****ing word they could come up with for redneck badassery??
 
I will fish for any species, on any water, at any time. I will NEVER noodle.

I've had a 3lb channel cat bite down on my thumb and it damn near broke it off.
 
E.J. Wells said:
I will fish for any species, on any water, at any time. I will NEVER noodle.

I've had a 3lb channel cat bite down on my thumb and it damn near broke it off.
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lolololol... what a damn puss.

Srsly. You gotta go out with me and let me show you how it's done, son. I'll catch more fish in 10 minutes, with my hands, than you will all day. Bet.
 
Whatever catfish skulls are made out of is what we should make tanks out of.
 
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