i have only eaten one fried like catfish but i can remember my grandad catching them,they were a couple feet long,,and he'd draw water from the well and put them in an oldtime washtub in the yard with cats,carp,buffalo,white perch or whatever.They lived farming the river bottoms here,i don't remember them buying much of anything unless they couldn't make it.he never had a drivers liscense,he traveled on a farmall "h" tractor.those were the good days..
talk about fresh chicken.me and my cousin always laugh about how when we asked what something was it was always chicken.wether it be ground hogg,opossum,racoon or whatever..