Catfish Pictures 2017

mahtofire14 wrote:

One of the saddest channel cats I’ve seen. Very black, very skinny, very roughed up. On the St Croix tonight.

Hopefully he is just running thin from watching his babies for the last couple weeks and will be fine.

Nice!

nhamm wrote:

Finally get to join the big boy flat club

Congrats.

Friday, end of sand bar on P3?

300yd from landing?
I seen ya

mplspug wrote:

Hopefully he is just running thin from watching his babies for the last couple weeks and will be fine.

Channels are finishing up, I think your spot on!

FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mplspug wrote:</div>
Hopefully he is just running thin from watching his babies for the last couple weeks and will be fine.

Channels are finishing up, I think your spot on!

That’s what I was hoping.

First Flattie, 9.5 #. Nothing to brag about but after 2 yrs of trying it’s OK. Thanks to Sharptailer (Nauti Santa) for taking me to “the dark side)!

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There’s that flathead I heard about. Nice work Gregg. First flathead is a lot more fun than the beach towel your guide caught

Oh and a stick and a log besides the towel. Thanks Andy!

Rod Bent wrote:

First Flattie, 9.5 #. Nothing to brag about but after 2 yrs of trying it’s OK.

You contradicted yourself. Your first flathead is always something to brag about!

Its been slow on the St Croix for me this year but I finally found a nice flathead. Just got to keep after them – sooner or later you will stumble on one. This one measured out at 40″ X 25″. Missed another big one on Wednesday night – pulled the hook right at the boat – damn that hurts.

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Nice Steve!

Wow, great fish Steve. I’m hoping the bite heats up in the next couple of weeks. Haven’t run into a flathead yet this year. Although I find myself getting frustrated and switching back to cut bait when I don’t get any action after a couple hours. Need to work on my ADD…..

The channel cat fishing has been great. Occasional flatheads as well.

Here’s SharpTailer and grandson.

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Channel cats have been riding some very specific structure, for me.
Neck down areas of the Mississippi where one side of main channel consists of both deep and shallow rip rap and two different current seams as well. Anchoring on the edge of the rocks and the main channel 15-28′ and putting baits on the last two to three feet of rocks before hitting the main channel has kept me busy the past two weeks.

Literally running baits behind each other as the money zone is narrow.

Watch barges closely and move when necessary as this bite is right on the edge of the main channel, not the navigational channel.

Here’s some flats and channels from this weekend. Biggest flathead 40″, 30#

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Here’s a few on the smaller side of life.

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Things not working so well today posting pictures. Will try again here.

The yellow shirt cat came off a closing dam. Behind the dam is a large hole/eddy. Only behind one side of the closing dam of course. ON that side is a noticeable V in the current. I dumped two baits into that V and waited. 3.5 minutes later 1st rod doubled over with a nice channel. Once landed, other rod doubled over with a flathead. ~ 1 afternoon. Then it was 10-20# turtles for the next 20 minutes.

When you catch a fish, take some time to recognize the structure. Then run to the next spot with similar structure.

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Now that’s weird!!

Guess ya’ll get double of my ugly mug!

Here’s my buddy’s personal best 33″ channel out of Everts about a week and a half ago. This thing was a pig and looked like it should live in the Red:

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Pool 2 hefty. 18.23 lbs x34″

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new to cats looking for a little advice as to where you go to target on p4 if you care to give advice thanks

The SCRATCHER wrote:

new to cats looking for a little advice as to where you go to target on p4 if you care to give advice thanks

That one I posted came from the wingdams on WI side of the Y, don’t remember which one it was though.

The SCRATCHER wrote:

new to cats looking for a little advice as to where you go to target on p4 if you care to give advice thanks

Get into current. Edges of main channel… But then again I haven’t fished since weather cooled down Thursday.

Great info and great catches fellas

My wife and unborn son caught their personal best channel cat last night. Actually her biggest fish ever. 13 lbs came from pool 2.

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The kid with a cute little daylight 30″ channel

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Took an old college buddy out Saturday for his first time Catfishing. Bite was surprisingly out of the current and it took some time to figure out. Our biggest was only 15# but Corey was impressed with the fish!

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Nice cat (and shorts) Andy!

41″, 36#

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Nice bro. ????

Not sure why it put ??? marks cuz I was doin a smiley lol