Catfish Stew

Catfish fill the local streams and rivers and are caught by youngsters on the end of cane poles and by good ol’ boys with fancy boats and gear. Most of the ones I see have ventured into an upriver crab trap and end up at my fishmonger’s. When the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department was putting together The South Carolina Wildlife Cookbook (now republished by the University of South Carolina Press as The Sout