"Muddy" tastes like dirt. That simple.

North Texas Catfish Guide Service has a lot of information (not the best photos, though).

Frogprince, if you ate something that looked like a catfish but cooked up like slime then it was a bullhead. The Sheepshead looks a lot different than the catfish, and it looks like it is a good eating fish.

Best catfish I ever ate was at a little restaurant a friend took me to in Elvis' home town of Tupelo, Mississippi. A lot of the restaurant and market fish is pond raised.

In doing a search it looks like "Yellow Cat" under the strobe of Google brings up that--yellow felines. :) Yellow Catfish as a search brings up a lot of bullheads, some of them labled "yellow bullhead catfish." Kind of backs up my earlier statement (I grew up catching and tossing back bullheads in the Puget Sound area in fresh and salt water. They seem to be everywhere). I think the yellow cats are the ones that get to be the leviathans of local lake legend here in Texas. The scuba divers in the lakes will see them near the dams. I worked as a park naturalist for the Corps of Engineers at Belton and Stillhouse Hollow Lakes in Central Texas many years ago and heard about them. (The real fish stories I have are of the huge alligator gars that came out of the bayous and lakes where I worked for the Corps in the Vicksburg District in Northeastern Louisiana).

Blue cats look a lot more tasty.

Here is a fisheries photo of a carp, a blue cat and a channel cat. That might help a little.

SRS