While Dad was in training for the Army somewhere down South he found some folks fishing and joined them.
There’s catten in my blood!
If I recall, they were using limb lines. Either way it wasn’t hook and line.
Cool pictures Brian and good post, I don’t have any pictures of my folks fishing but alot of memories. Both my mom and dad were avid fishermen and caught my first fish, a carp, when I was around 5 years old and still remember doing it, from then on we fished all the time. We fished catfish all the time in the local river. My old man was a wader and I remember wading with him fishing catfish with shrimp under an old spring pencil bobber drifting over rocks many times. My dad and I would get a few and then go home and clean them and mom would fry them up. We fished catfish in quite a few local spots, Good memories and again good post. 
Nice pic BK
I miss the days where it was the nrom to where a button down shirt and dress slacks fishing!! No Joke LOVE the pics!!!!
Those are some awesome old pics Brian. Thanks for sharing.
He is a handsome guy, what happened………. 
Great Picture Buddy
Great pics. Civil war?
Quote:
Great pics. Civil war?
I was seriously expecting these to be paintings..
Quote:
He is a handsome guy, what happened……….
Great Picture Buddy
X2
I was going to say the same thing,but then some wierd feeling came over me and told me to be nice to the Brian.
I’m over it
Somebuddy got wupped with the ugly stick 
Jesh, you guys made me feel so bad I’m going back to the Green Bay thread to feel better.
That is cool stuff Mr. K
Quote:
Quote:
Great pics. Civil war?
I was seriously expecting these to be paintings..
Quote:
That is a monster channel. Do you have the GPS location?
Great pix Beeks!
It would be if it was a channel.
I’m not sure if they are the same fish in both pics. The first pic looks like a flat and the second looks like a strange channel.
Is that what your thinking Matt?
I think the second one is a blue cat
Quote:
I’m not sure if they are the same fish in both pics. The first pic looks like a flat and the second looks like a strange channel.
Is that what your thinking Matt?
Same spot, I’m thinking same fish and a flat. The shape of the underside of the head is distinctly flathead in the first photo, and the second photo is just a weird angle, but it’s the same size fish and the broad back around the dorsal fin sure looks familiar…
Thats what I’m thinking too Flathead. If you look at the tree in the background it branches off to the right in both pictures. I’m pretty darned sure its the same fish and its forsure a flathead and Brians dad is holding it in another spot a few feet away and a diffrent hold, again nice picture Brian. Its what that fish would look like turned 90 degrees and forsure the same fish.
You know what, on closer look it might be a blue cat, the mouth width isn’t like the flatheads we have up here.
fwiw, I thought flathead in both pictures too. Nice fish, great pictures and memories!!! 
Saw a picture of my great Uncle once with a huge flathead maybe late ’40s-early 50s… Mississippi river. Definitely agree the fishing bug tends to run in families…
At quick glance I thought so as well Ryan.
Doesn’t really matter since I can’t verify anyway.
They have whiskers and that’s all that matters to me.
Well, I wish I had one of him kissing it.
Shawn, he wasn’t into the whiskered wonders, except for the bullheads in some gravel pits. A kettle of hot oil and butter and lots of beer was the menu. Forgot. Bread dipped in the grease.
Those are GREAT pics BK!! Thanks for sharing!
Quote:
While Dad was in training for the Army somewhere down South he found some folks fishing and joined them.
There’s catten in my blood!
If I recall, they were using limb lines. Either way it wasn’t hook and line.
By far the coolest pics ever PRICELESS!
Blue cat on both counts… I offer as evidence the following two photographs randomly snatched off the interwebs. ONLY as educational items, which is, as I understand it, fair use. 
Exhibit one: the belly view:
Slightly different angle but you can still see the flattie-like shape tapering to a very slender tail.
Exhibit two: Nearly identical angle top shot:
So yeah… blue cat on both counts. Besides that, they tend to be far more numerous than other species in certain parts of the south and for certain fishing styles. I’ve got a friend in AR that catches blues almost exclusively on the Arkansas River.
And yeah, those are some precious pics, BK.
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
