It was the first time Craig had eaten catfish.

In the Grocery Store at Tarpley we ate huge steaks and catfish fresh from the river.

"It's an easier sell to get people to eat catfish more often than to get someone to try it for the first time," Mr. Allen said.

Harry Rex ate catfish twice a week; Ray, once every five years.

Lake had no time for stumping or walking neighborhoods or eating catfish or standing in the rain outside busy factories.

We eat catfish, fried chicken, corn on the cob and peach cobbler, washed down with iced tea.

"I ain't no green horn, I'm still sitting tight," he sang, drawing laughter from the crowd that was eating fried catfish from paper plates.

People sat on the grass, listened to a blues band and ate catfish at $7 a plate.

The same size as the living Shoebill, it likely ate lungfish and catfish.