36lb flathead caught yesterday

Got your alls attention didn’t I? No really I did catch this fish lastnight. But the thing was is that I was throwing a castnet in my pond trying to get bait for todays trip. It was a heck of a fight in the castnet. It sure gave me the itch to get out and get a hold of one of those big boys after just holding that one. Our water temp is 52 degrees today on the main river. I have a cooler full of live bait and going to give those guys a try later today. I’ll post and let you know how I do. I’m sure the smaller ones should be bitting by now. There usually the first to come out of the winter holes to feed.

Jeremy Leach

http://www.tanglingwithcatfish.com

I’m ready! Hopefully I’ll find some suckers while trout fishing this week end…Flatty bait is hard to find right now.

Hey Dark – A word of caution, I was also going to be looking for chubs on a local trout stream. I ran across this on page 27 of the Minnesota Fishing Regulations under Stream Trout Regulations. “Taking minnows or leeches from designated trout waters, except under special permit, is prohibited.” I had this perfect spot for chubs but it is in a designated trout stream, I guess I will have to scratch it from my list of bait spots. Getting flathead bait keeps getting harder and harder.

Ya, I’m aware of that. There are plenty of “non-designated” areas that hold bait fish if you want them alive. I think its legal to keep suckers if you want too as long as they are dead. A big “rearranged” sucker would work for flathead bait right now anyway. I wonder how hard it would be to get a special permit to catch n keep live ones?