2018 Channel Cat Thread

  • Charlie Vaughan
    On the river
    Posts: 190
    April 22, 2018 at 7:49 pm #1769761

    Thought I’d start this off with the biggest chan I’ve ever seen.

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    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    April 23, 2018 at 7:11 am #1769805

    You get a length on that fattie?

    Giant, nice catch.

    peace

    Charlie Vaughan
    On the river
    Posts: 190
    April 23, 2018 at 7:17 am #1769811

    It was the length above. Not sure how those question marks got there

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    April 23, 2018 at 7:48 am #1769815

    37″!!!!!

    bow bow

    mahtofire14
    Mahtomedi, MN
    Posts: 11040
    April 24, 2018 at 5:38 am #1770045

    That’s a great channel!

    BrianF
    Posts: 787
    May 4, 2018 at 9:33 am #1772524

    The kitties were sure littering the shoreline last night.

    My target was crappie, but 9 of these decided to crash the party. Slip bobber with a small jighead and Gulp minnow. Is it a coincidence that I was using Gulp minnows that have been marinading in JB fish sauce crayfish scent? That stuff is phewy.

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    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    May 14, 2018 at 8:07 am #1774529

    Finally broke 20# yesterday. An 18# too.

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    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    May 24, 2018 at 8:57 am #1776616

    The tug is the drug!

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    Keith
    Posts: 6
    June 1, 2018 at 9:05 pm #1778096

    37”-PB

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    Ryan Speers
    Waconia, MN
    Posts: 513
    August 8, 2018 at 3:39 pm #1790376

    Red River, end of May, we started the day with this double. If memory serves they were both in the 13-15lb range.

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    Ryan Speers
    Waconia, MN
    Posts: 513
    August 8, 2018 at 3:41 pm #1790378

    This past weekend in Iowa on the Little Sioux River we got this 23.5lb channel for my brother in law.

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    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    August 9, 2018 at 7:56 am #1790495

    Kitty not special at all other than absolutely blasted with leeches. Never have seen so many in my life. Leeches on both eyes blinding the poor fella.

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    mahtofire14
    Mahtomedi, MN
    Posts: 11040
    August 13, 2018 at 6:23 pm #1791330

    Had a really fun first night back out shorefishing since the rivers went down. Was on the Minnesota near Savage. Night started out slow with 3 guys, two rods with cut sucker and mine with a live bullhead (trying to get lucky). Once 1030 hit our bells we’re going crazy. Caught around ten channels from 1030-1200. Nothin big but a couple decent 5-8 lbers. Just fun to get out and sit on shore with a couple drinks and a nice fire again.

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    Ryan Speers
    Waconia, MN
    Posts: 513
    August 13, 2018 at 6:36 pm #1791334

    10# P4

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    Deleted
    Posts: 959
    August 13, 2018 at 8:07 pm #1791354

    Got this nice one last week on pool 5. No weight on it but it was screaming line off, with the drag set pretty tight. Nice fight. Night crawler on the bottom in 14 fow. Released it to grow some more.

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    Jeff mattingly
    Lonsdale, Mn
    Posts: 515
    August 16, 2018 at 2:19 pm #1791950

    Not my biggest, but sure was a pretty looking channel on p4.

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    riverbasher
    Posts: 28
    August 16, 2018 at 2:42 pm #1791956

    Certainly not my biggest, but I haven’t been chasing them much this year. Not that the river levels have calmed down, I may get back after them.

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    Bearcat89
    North branch, mn
    Posts: 20815
    August 19, 2018 at 8:33 am #1792375

    I haven’t been able to target cats much this year, but here’s one from the st croix near franconia

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    riverbasher
    Posts: 28
    September 5, 2018 at 9:19 am #1795539

    My wife and I got into some nice channel cats over Labor Day weekend. All caught on fresh cut sucker on current seams in about 7-9 feet of water. Also got a carp while fishing for bass along a shoreline. Had to take pictures of it with the jig in it’s mouth. Fun fight on a medium action spinning rod.

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