You gotta be kidding me

[Rebbasser]

Well, Flyrod and I hit the lake this morning about 6:15 and thought we were having depthfinder problems-it was showing WAY deeper than it was supposed to. Turns out we both misjudged where we were-it WAS dark-and ended up over the main river channel, so the depthfinder was working fine-we weren't. Went back where we wanted to start and I got a couple LM and a smallie on a black/blue flake Senko. Worked down the bank, and as the sun came up I switched to a watermelon/cream laminate. Threw on the outside of a stickup, felt a thump, set the hook, and the fight was on. This was a BIG fish-bending the rod double and pulling drag but after a couple of surges we figured what it was-about a 15 lb catfish:


So, we took a picture and it went back in the lake. Cleaned up the slime, retied and went back to fishing. We left the area about 90 minutes later to fish some deeper flooded timber. Rigged up a smoke/red flake tube and started throwing at the timber. Felt a thump, set the hook, and this was another good fish. I thought I had a real big smallie. Nope, not a big smallie, but a big fish-another catfish, this one about 12 lbs. You gotta be kidding me-2 10 lb + catfish? On soft plastics? On the same day? Dang fish slimed me, the boat, the tackle on the deck, Flyrod-beats getting skunked, but given the choice I could have done without that !

[texasbasser]

Well that sucks! At least you got some bass and a nice fight... What lake were ya'll at?

tb

[Rebbasser]

Canyon-had some work done on the outboard and wanted to run it a little to check it out.

[texasbasser]

Cool, My uncle just bought a house down there so I'll be fishing it alot soon.

tb

[Marty]

I'd love to catch more catfish. I think they're great fighters and are much stronger than same-size largemouth. (I'm talking channel cats, never caught any other kind except for bullheads).

[zooker]

yep kitty slime in a carpeted boat.. ewww some thing is stinky.. try a carpet shampooer to get the ick out..

zooker

[keithdog]

Hey Reb, you wern't using any of the Yum Catnip attractant were you??????

[Raul]

Catfish are easy Reb, but two 10+ pound carp on senkos in the same day ....

[3dkicker]

I've done two around 20lbs on 4" ribworms on channel drops on the Potomac in 10 minutes. They're fun to battle. Sit back and enjoy the ride. The 20 lb carp pull harder though. Hooked one of them on a Baby 1 (not the same day).

[Rebbasser]

Originally Posted by keithdog

Hey Reb, you wern't using any of the Yum Catnip attractant were you??????

I didn't think so, but maybe I was. After all, Flyrod DOES have a couple cats

[Captmikestarrett]

Catfish boogers are fun.. Yea I like them and love to flick them off the boat..

The line gets slimed and you run the line between your index and thumb to collect the gooey boogers and just flick them as far as you can..

Talk about good fun..

Capt Mike

[bassfisher02]

Haha, new sport? Catfish booger flicking.

[flfireman]

Is that any different than the normal booger flickin you do??

[Denny_K]

Hey Reb,There nice cats you have there,wild on the way they were caught. Senko's ...breakfest of catpions...not champions ....lol .
Denny

[Jigger]

We catch a lot of cats while crappie fishing in the spring on crappie jigs. They are a bunch of fun for the first 10 minutes or so then I get tired of them. I had my wife and son out last Spring and I hooked into a big cat and handed the rod off to my wife and she fought it for about 15 minutes and then handed it off to my son for another 15 minute fight until we got a 30 lb blue cat to the boat. They had a ball and I was glad I didn't have to fight the danged thing. We released it after photos.

[Bass_fishing_girl]

Cool catfish!

San