Back in the day in Cape Coral, smoked mullet was a common dining experience. I preferred it to catfish, but rarely got it as my father loved that vile catfish and didn't know how to smoke them.
I hear you. I just need two vacuum lines and run some carb cleaner through.
Of course, selling it is another story. With this covid business, I'm not looking forward to a 3 hr line.
Blackened catfish is really good. I don't understand how people can complain about catfish and then eat tilapia. It has the taste and texture of library paste.
As a kid in Cape Coral, eating salt water catfish was commonplace. I hated it. It's a big part of the reason I didn't want to eat fish at all until I was an adult.
I was just going to warn you if you had a ceramic like a big green egg. The smoker "seasons" with the things you cook on it and a unique fish like amberjack might leave a funk behind for the next few cooks.