Pretty Cat!!

  • tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4749
    April 23, 2004 at 5:17 pm #1219109

    I am posting this picture because I was amazed at the bright yellow color of this catfish. I am very new to Cats and not sure what variety it is but I caught and released it Wed afternoon below the dam on Pool 4. It hammered a jig/plastic grub in about 12’of water on the Wisc. side and fought really hard. Is it a Channel cat

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4749
    April 23, 2004 at 5:21 pm #302221

    We also caught this big Flathead(?), also on a jig/plastic. It was about 40″ long we did not weigh it and released it. I could really get into these tremendous fighters.

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    April 23, 2004 at 5:27 pm #302222

    Tom, both those fish are flatheads. (mudcat) Nice fish too!

    woolybugger1
    W Wisconsin
    Posts: 276
    April 23, 2004 at 5:42 pm #302225

    The one probably hung out just a little too close to the nuke plant.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    April 23, 2004 at 6:26 pm #302231

    Thanks for posting those pics Tom…you know what they tell me?

    Time to go FISH’EN!

    lenny_jamison
    Bay City , WI
    Posts: 4001
    April 23, 2004 at 10:11 pm #302256

    I tell you what guys, I’ve been hammering the cats this week. Most of them have bit while walleye fishing but this morning I took the time for a little channel catting. We caught six of them in two hours on leeches. The biggest one went about 10LBS. Yesterday a 25LBS. flathead pounded my jig just above Evert’s. All in all, we probably caught 15 cats in the last two days.

    Gaor Hunter

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4749
    April 24, 2004 at 1:36 am #302266

    Not long after we netted Ken’s cat(at dusk) Jim hooked a monster about 1/4 mile above Evert’s. We followed it downriver almost to Evert’s for about 20 minutes. The guy had an Ugly stick and 10# Fireline and was pulling his @ss off on that rod. He could not get that one off the bottom…no way. His knot gave out and it was history. I would have loved to get a look at that one!

    stevew
    Burnsville, MN
    Posts: 412
    April 24, 2004 at 9:33 pm #302301

    Those are both nice, but I win. . .

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    April 25, 2004 at 11:13 am #302331

    Steve…your cat may win in the picture contest…but for eating….and staying married…the other cats win…hands down

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4749
    April 25, 2004 at 11:05 pm #302398

    Amen Brother!

    mudcatkid
    On water
    Posts: 663
    April 26, 2004 at 10:17 pm #302195

    ya…………… that is a great example of why many people call flatheads “YELLOW CATS” …

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