How do you hold a catfish?

[Santaaa]

catfish are not terribly hard to hold. Smaller ones grab them around the belly and hold on tight. Bigger ones take your index and middle finger and put them in the the gill on one side and then put your thumb on the other side and grasp the part in between the gills. If you do that he will have a hard time getting you. I suggest getting a large net too. A fillet board would be good. Don't bother hitting them or freezing them to death. They won't die you just have to let them die on their own time as cruel as it may sound I have hit them on the noggin with hammers and large rocks and it won't kill them. I split ones head open with a hammer and it just would not die.
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