FTR Visitor Pic-Monster Pool 6 Flathead!

Caught on a crankbait! Last week EFN Pro-Staff’er Dustin Stewart had a 40+Lb’er on a big kalin tail. Maybe people need to re-think the catfish’s image as a scavenger or bottom feeder and give it the consideration as a “chase it down” type predator that it obviously is at times.

Anyway, got off the track here a bit. The pic is sent out to us by Mike Rain and shows his fishing buddy, Dave Williamson, with a 44 inch – 45 pound flathead caught on a craw colored bomber fished on a pool 6 wingdam. Heck of a fish!

Thanks for the pic!

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Good fishin’,

EFN Webstaff

Ive mentioned this before… Ive nailed a few cats on artificials too… and some darn big ones….. and it makes me wonder if you could hone some of these techniques and end up with a way to really score on these fish with artificials….. if you were fishing with BIG lures… BIG Cranks, Big Plastics/Jigs… tipped with BIG bait….. using big 3-ways… moving your bait… looking for aggressive fish….. Im SURE you would nail fish…. and when you refined it… who knows? its kind of an unexplored ground…… maybe its like fly fishing for walleyes… it CAN be done….. but its probably never going to be a prime time tactic…. OR… maybe there is a really effective method waiting to be found!….

In-Fisherman did a show last year where they were fishing plastics in the wintertime, I believe it was on pool 2. They didn’t seem to have any problems getting the bigguns to latch on.

Do you suppose they’re more aggressive in the winter due to lack of forage?

Nice fish man!

They’re much less agressive in winter. It is the high density of fish in one hole that can make the fishing so unbelieveable at times. When you have 50 big flatheads fin to fin, it’s not going to take a perfect cast to get a fish. The key is actually finding them though. That can be pretty tough.

Matt

dude… thats a big turd! that had to be a hella fight!