The secret of cooking catfish right is a hot pan! For this reason, it is best to use salad oil, as butter or margarine burns if it gets too hot.

Soak fish in milk for one hour before cooking. If you flour your fish about 1/2 hour before you cook it, the coating will stay on the fish better.

Towel dry fish. Shake in a paper bag into which you have put Bisquick, salt and pepper. Let stand 1/2 hour.

In frying pan, pour enough oil to just cover the bottom of the pan. Heat until it sizzles when you put a drop of water in it.Fry fish on one side until brown and crisp. Turn, fry other side the same way. Drain on paper towels, serve hot.