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Originally Posted by Mako19
Great to eat.
Tough to clean.
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yep, if you have a regular fillet knife its dull after only 3 or 4 of em. we used to use those curved carpet cutting knives to get it started cutting along the fins so the fillet knife can get to the fish
the dang skin is as tough as alligator hide and that's the whole battle, getting through that leather hide they have, after that they are one of the best eating fish out there.
as for catching them they eat anything that moves from a bubble gum wrapper to a cigarette butt, just move it around and they attack like pirana.
we used to sling baits as far as we could away from the rig to get away from them so they don't steal the bait before it gets to the bottom.
if you want some fun put a swim bait on a plain hook tied to a flyrod and sight fish, pulling it away from the ones you don't want to catch
