How do you kill a catfish?

[Bassnajr]

Easy...just sic a DOGFISH on it!!!!!! :

[Big Bait Fishing]

i don't wait for them to die , i will just start to fillet them !!!! i guess i have no longer the patience to wait for them to die  

[NewAngler]

Easy...just sic a DOGFISH on it!!!!!! :

ha, so corny i had to laugh.

[Triton21]

Run over them with a TANK.

KELLEY

[Bassin for Walleye]

2 words...twelve gauge

[bass or bass ?]

A good solid whack on the top of the head with a short "billy" club will do it in .

[Elite Image Fishing]

Put a nail through its head and into a tree. Make a 1/16 incision around the head, below the gills. Grab skin with pliers and pull down. Once skinned, cut off head.

bingo!

[LCpointerKILLA]

if your fishing for a meal bring a cooler and throw your catches on ice

[bass or bass ?]

Any fish I plan on eating gets cleaned immediately and put on ice.

[burleytog]

Filet, toss carcass back, watch it swim away.

[microman]

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[airborne_angler]

Be mean to it,say insulting things,tease it,tell it that its mom never loved it,give it a guilt trip about being alive and a bottom feeder.

The catfish will kill itself!!

[dave]

Filet, toss carcass back, watch it swim away.

Exactly. I never know why people don't fillet and throw away. The heck with all that nailing and skinning and cleaning.

[little_stephen]

sharp knife tip the the center of the head. hold the fish firmly around the midsection on something hard, like the deck, and with one stiff blow to the back of the knife handle, puncture the tip down into the fishs brain....... and end of fishy.......    or just smack the thing really hard with a rock. ;D

or try drowning it     lol

[little_stephen]

Filet, toss carcass back, watch it swim away.

Exactly. I never know why people don't fillet and throw away. The heck with all that nailing and skinning and cleaning.

ive watched people get in DEEP trouble for that. for some reason, something about it being against the law for people to clean fish in, on, or near the lake where i lived is chiming in the back of my mind. idk why tho?! seems stupid, but i can clearly remember reading somewhere in a rules and regulations brochure on a local lake that u cant clean or fillet fish on, near or in the lakes waters?! :-?

[Eternal Angler]

Cut the head off.

[TommyBass]

Filet, toss carcass back, watch it swim away.

Exactly. I never know why people don't fillet and throw away. The heck with all that nailing and skinning and cleaning.

ive watched people get in DEEP trouble for that. for some reason, something about it being against the law for people to clean fish in, on, or near the lake where i lived is chiming in the back of my mind. idk why tho?! seems stupid, but i can clearly remember reading somewhere in a rules and regulations brochure on a local lake that u cant clean or fillet fish on, near or in the lakes waters?! :-?

Yes be careful with that, there are many laws prohibiting such things, especially in public areas.

Remains attract unwanted pests, give off bad smells, and can make the nearby water very unattractive.  There are alot of people who don't want to see that.

Personally, I just put them on ice (or in a livewell) and clean them at home.  Its easier that way.  Its not like a gut shot deer.  As long as its cold or alive your meat will be fine until you get where you need to be.

[airborne_angler]

Doesnt keeping the fish alive ,like on a stringer,cause the fish to stress,thus affecting the flavor?

[kikstand454]

.22 right behind the ear.

"two in the head... you know theyre dead"

[Whizzer]

Put a nail through its head and into a tree. Make a 1/16 incision around the head, below the gills. Grab skin with pliers and pull down. Once skinned, cut off head.

I have to laugh. I grew up in Florida, and on a Boy Scout camping trip someone caught a catfish and someone else caught an eel. Both got the nail to the tree treatment.

Whizzer

[IwillChooseFreeWill]

Doesnt keeping the fish alive ,like on a stringer,cause the fish to stress,thus affecting the flavor?

its a catfish... it sits on the bottom swallowing mud and whatever junk it can find down there... I doubt you can change the taste of it aside from leaving it out in the sun for a few hours.

[burleytog]

Doesnt keeping the fish alive ,like on a stringer,cause the fish to stress,thus affecting the flavor?

its a catfish... it sits on the bottom swallowing mud and whatever junk it can find down there... I doubt you can change the taste of it aside from leaving it out in the sun for a few hours.

You don't know just how uninformed that statement is.   :

[Dan:]

who in their right mind would eat a mud eating, garbage chewing catfish?!?

[Kowen117]

ME you have to clean them right and they taste great  ;D ;D ;D

[simplejoe]

Doesnt keeping the fish alive ,like on a stringer,cause the fish to stress,thus affecting the flavor?

its a catfish... it sits on the bottom swallowing mud and whatever junk it can find down there... I doubt you can change the taste of it aside from leaving it out in the sun for a few hours.

You don't know just how uninformed that statement is. :

That's what I was thinking.  ;D

I had a catfish crush a crankbait 5' below the surface in 15' of water.    How about that for a bottom dweller. ;D