Fish story
 

My daughter-in-law's nephew landed this fish recently; apparently he was pretty surprised to catch a fish bigger than himself! No word on the weight or how much help he got from dad...

https://i.imgur.com/GwUQ1zjl.jpg

Sheesh, Phil, that young man looks like he could have been bait for that monster. Congrats to him!

Ever eaten catfish cheeks?

The cheeks are arguably the best piece of meat on Any fish.
A long time ago when I caught a really big bluefish I learned - do Not throw the head away!
The meat in the cheeks and top of the head are ‘fine dining’!





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Yeah, we always kept the walleye cheeks.

One of the great scams of bogus seafood traders was (and maybe still is) using a round punch to dowel out circular chunks of meat from the cheeks and crown of game and ground fish and sell them as scallops. A guy that used do come around to my inlaws cottage at Wellfleet on the Cape every day at 4PM in an old Good Humor ice cream truck would always tell us, "If they're all the same size, they ain't wild scallops!"

'The Proof of the pudding is in the eating'.