Eveyone says hard heads and gaftops are not worth eating.. Idk alot of people say the same about anything that's not a trout or flounder or soem.other high faluten' fish. So caught one tonight that swallowed the hook so





Filleted skinned ,brined for a bit , tonys seasoning kinda sauteed them i guess in some olive oils then wrapped them with some butter and tossed them in the oven for a bit


Shouldn't be too terrible , whish they where bigger though so I could get that ref meat out but egh

Well ..... TASTES PRETTY GOOD

If you plan on eating a lot of that stuff you need to cut out all that dark meat along the lateral line. That's where all the bad stuff accumulates

I have tried most fish & crab. Fresh & saltwater. Seafood is good stuff !

Yes just run your filet knife down the side and most of the red meat cones off There will be a narrow strip where the lateral line is Just cut that out then you have 2 strips of all white meat

Looks good

I've never heard of a hard head or a gaftops, but your's sure looks good enough to try.

" You's lucky! I hear that down in Andersonville they's eating rats"

Just fry it; it's better. Never ate a hard head, but ate quite a few gaff-top. Not my favorite.

very little in the way of fresh fish that taste bad when made well.

fish that sat to long , but good and fresh and from cooler water generally good

I’ll take an order stuff looks good to me but I’m not picky

'Gaftops' are saltwater sailfin catfish. Correct?

Not sure what exactly 'hard heads' are. What fish is that?

Looks good, nice white meat.

Smaller variety of salt water catfish. I akin them to bull heads

Thank you for the explanation, wolfdog91.

They are good eating. Not the equal of freshwater cats but still very good. I think they got the trash fish stigma from being catfish, their ability to slime everything, bait stealing especially when there are so many other good eating fish available.

Grand dad would slit them open and toss them back.

I've eaten both (the hardheads were a drunken experiment that turned out surprisingly good). In S. Texas gaftops are somewhat considered game fish while hardheads are the low of the low, mostly because they are pretty small and present in unbelievable numbers in certain aread