How do you skin and cook a catfish?

I take an electric fillet knife and fillet my catfish just like I do my bass. And the best way in the world to cook catfish is to season them up with cornmeal , salt and pepper and fry them up. If you do not wish to fillet them you hang the catfish by a nail, cut a circle around his gill plate, then take your knife point and make a slit along his back bone and take pliers and pull hide off. cut off fins and head, gut fish and slice into bone-in steaks. Then fry fish.

its rele easy on a small one but the bigger they get the harder plus u need special tools i think this is the perfect vid for u it tells u everything step-by-step real easy if u have a week stomach be careful it shows every thing and i mean EVERYTHING

If you want to go through the hassle of skinning them, what you need to do it get a piece of wood (2x4) and hammer a nail through the cats head and to the board. Then take a pair of pliers, you can get skinning pliers are the sports stores, but regular pliers work too. Cut around behind the gills all the way around, then cut a slit all the way down the spine. Now grab the skin near the head and pull it down toward the tail. The easier way is to just kill the fish, lay it on its side and cut behind the gill to about half way through. Now that you have a deep cut near the neck, aim your blade toward the tail and cut down the spine and belly to the tail. Don't cut all the way through the last bit of skin near the tail, but flip the loose piece of meat out and fillet the meat off the skin. This works better for me. Here is a demo. Once you get this all done and you have you fillets, you just bread it and fry it on both sides. Good luck.