They can be caught in lakes, rivers, ponds, and reservoirs throughout the state. The state's second most popular species is catfish. Largemouth bass are the most popular sportfish for anglers in Texas because they are caught year-round. Whatever your desire, opinion, or interest level of catfish, with Aquascape Environmental, you “know a guy” that can hook you up with or unhook you from catfish, provide you with catfish information, or if you’re a particularly good friend, fry up a mess for you.Author Anietra Hamper fished the inland lakes of Texas and the Gulf Coast for some of the top species in the Lone Star state.Įverything is bigger in Texas, and that includes the fish that come out of the state's more than 1,100 public lakes, each with unique characteristics that create ideal habitats for a wide range of species, from largemouth bass and catfish to crappie and alligator gar. The catfish also has many detractors that may even go after him with poison! Some will go for them with hooks and lines baited with unimaginably putrescent baits, some with bare hands, some with knives and forks, and some with SBA loans. Advocates will pay to stock their ponds with them. A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it adds up to some serious money. That’s just Mississippi don’t forget to add Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina.
Without getting too deep in the muddy waters of economics, or SEC rivalry, the Mississippi catfish industry continually employs over 10,000 workers, with incomes over $200 million and a total economic impact pushing into the billions, making it the No. 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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