Catt’en Bragg’en Board

From popular demand, here’s our In-DepthAngling Bragg’en Board!

Your place to post your Channel Cat, Flathead or Blue Cat photos.

The post should include (if you have it)

Weight

Lenght

Girth

Date

Equipment

Body of water caught in

Anything else that pertains to the catch of the fish.

Even if you’ve posted them before..this will be our one stop shop for photos of you, your friends and of course the cats.

Let’s try to keep this thread “clean” by start another thread for conversation about the pictures posted here.

If you are haveing trouble posting pictures, please send me a Private Message and I can either help you or post them for you!

Good Ol’ Eye-Guide!

Don’t have much info on this one.

Pool 3 – Summer of ’05

And a great time!

The summer of 2005 was a great year for meeting new friends and getting a little catten in too.

These are just a handful of the IDA folks I was lucky enough to share the boat with this year (and my ugly mug of course).

Here ya go Dude!!

35″ 20lb Channel Cat

26lb Flathead Cat
Look familiar Brian???

36″ 20lb Channel Cat

It was a good summer!

Here’s a few of my pics from ’05

36 lbs flathead on cut sucker, Mississippi River “pool 1”

28 lbs flathead on live sucker, Pool 2 on 8-16-05

37″ 25 lbs channel on cut tullibee, Red River at Lockport on 9-17-05

’05 was a great year, my best year cattin’, hands down! Had a blast fishing with friends, both old and new, learning a few new tricks, tippin’ a few, and of course, catching some fish. One can only dream of what ’06 may have in store

2005 was a slow flathead year for me on the St Croix River. I started chasing cats on 4 April and prior to catching this fish I had been out 37 times and had been skunked 14 of those times and had only boated one other small flathead from the St Croix all summer. When I fished Pool 3 I could manage a few flatheads but the St Croix really stumped me. I was catching channels pretty regular on the St Croix but I could not find the flatheads. My luck changed on 14 August. I got this beauty and she weighed in at 55#, was 48″ long and had a 29″ girth. I got her on a 7″ bullhead and she just hammered it. When she finally came up along side the boat she looked like some kind of monster. My other cut bait rod took off while I was trying to boat her. I finally got her in the boat and caught a huge soft shell turtle on the cut bait rod. What a night!! It made all the work worth it – I cannot wait for next summer.

These 3 cats came off pool 8.
The best thing about it all, it was there first time cattin’ for flatties and I helped

This is Naomi with her 18lbs of kitty

My buddy Mike with his 20lb Flat

And Wats with his 30 pounder
We all had a blast

Pay no attention to the Chia Pet behind the Flat. 30 lb. on cut sucka July 4th at 9 a.m. on the Upper Croix

Found a few more…

For Mr. Bill Cadwell.
Smaller but still fun to catch flatties!

2

3

Bill, check out this hog

You guys have nothing on me

From Slob’s Monster to Big Times Monster!

Kevin, give us the details.

52″ long with a 32″ girth

This fish is my pride and joy… actully it was caught may 18th 2000 about 10 minutes b4 the rise of the full moon on a live bullhead. I fought it for about what felt like an hour (probably 10-15min) It was anawesome fish. I hurt my back holding it for the pics. My best friend who played football at Iowa state (o-line) had to go tippy toes to just get it over the side of the boat. Funny thing is it was our first time out ever flathead fishing in a boat…catdad had let us use his other boat for the summer and this was the first time we took it out. I had the spot booked marked in my head as a priority spot to hit since I got a boat… worked out great that night…cpuld have been the new state recordd.hmmmm keep in mind I ma 6’3″ and 265lbs in the pic

More BIG TIME cats!

Kevin, is this the same area the In-Fisherman video was shot on the MN River?

Another ear to ear smile!

Hey! I know that spot on the Great Red River of the North!

to the top for Ralph W!

I forgot to add some photo’s to this in the past!

*fisher Tyler* got his 1st cats of a lifetime in the 2005 season. These fish were both caught by him..

1st Flathead

Biggest cat to date (about 7 pounds)

He already has RW beat and he was only 4!

This is only a few of the fish from the 2005 season of mine. All of these fish are over 30#, many close to 40#, and the largest at 40.5# .. I’m still looking for that 60 this year.. but these little guys can keep a person busy and help overlook all the bullhead wounds!

40.5# on Sylvania sucker…………nice channel

OH .. and there are no catfish in the metro

Uh, my flathead is bigger than that, as are some of the channels I posted. Although, I have had Tyler outfish me on occasion.

For the record, I’m 6’2″ and 240 lbs. Tyler is much smaller than that. Mine’s definitely bigger

In fact, are you sure that Tyler’s not just holding one of your bullheads, Dave

Ok.. you got a bigger flathead

I think his channel might have you though

I think I may have him with this one

Yeah…but your hands are pretty small Ralph!

Yeah, small for a grizzly bear