I’ve heard that they are caught trolling cranks on the weed edges by guys fishing for walleyes.
Fish around any of the bridges with a hunk of crawler or cut bait on the bottom and you will catch fish.
Pug,
Go to the tackle shop and get some splash bright bobbers. Find some weeds that have current or wave action on them. Use cut bait or sonny’s or something 3.5 feet down on the weed edge. or a foot off the bottom if you are fishing the bridge pilings. Have fun. Your bobbers will move a certain direction. You want to move your boat so you can fish out the side and have your bobbers stop where you wan them to stop. Oh that is right you don’t have a boat. 
Is this the horseshoe chain by st. cloud? If so you can catch catfish on anything and everything you throw. Any place in any lake. Any bait you want to fish with, from waxworms to topwater frogs.
We were just there for a week and caught over 250 catfish fishing for walleye, bass, and panfish.
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Is this the horseshoe chain by st. cloud? If so you can catch catfish on anything and everything you throw. Any place in any lake. Any bait you want to fish with, from waxworms to topwater frogs.
Obviously not familiar with Pug, eh?
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I’m sure there are bigger fish there. You just have to fish bigger fish spots while presenting a proper bait fish meal a bigger cat would want like a 1.5 inch cube of sucker. Maybe we should get pug a life boat or something.
I know there are nice cats in there. There have been some pics through the years of some iced cats out that way that were probably pushing 10 lbs.
I’m not familiar with the Horseshoe. The bigger fish will bite at night. You can get one once in a while during the day. It sounds like this place is full of cats which would make it a nice place to get some fish for the table. I’d clean one or two to see if the meat is white or yellow. If it is not yellow I’d clean a bunch of them. If this place has a river channel in it, run a jig with a nice big chunk of cutbait on it. Look for arcs anywhere the river was. They often suspend if the oxygen is low down deep. Be careful Pug catfish have spines on their pectoral and dorsal fins that can produce a nasty sting when handled without care.
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I’m not familiar with the Horseshoe. The bigger fish will bite at night. You can get one once in a while during the day. It sounds like this place is full of cats which would make it a nice place to get some fish for the table. I’d clean one or two to see if the meat is white or yellow. If it is not yellow I’d clean a bunch of them. If this place has a river channel in it, run a jig with a nice big chunk of cutbait on it. Look for arcs anywhere the river was. They often suspend if the oxygen is low down deep. Be careful Pug catfish have spines on their pectoral and dorsal fins that can produce a nasty sting when handled without care.
The place is so full of catfish you cant fish and NOT catch one. Its stupid, and it is ruining the rest of the fishery. The fish can NOT be eaten. The meat is yellow as pee and smells like week old fish slime. The one guy with us last week just had to clean one and try it, after I told him dont do it. It stunk up the cabin to the point we had to sit outside the rest of the night. And when he put the fork to it, it turned to catfish gravy. I had the dry heaves for 20 minutes.
Trust me, even the 4 and 5 year olds in the resort were pulling in 3-5lb cats consistently off the resort dock. Doesnt matter what time of day or what bait you use, you will catch more cats in the 2-6lb range than you want to. Dont mess with stinkbait or any expensive bait, just ask the bait shops for their dead suckers/fatheads and throw them out.
There really is no river channel, the place the river funnels through is about 3-3.5′ deep and little to no current. Just fish along any weedline in any lake and you will catch plenty of them.
It’s true, they’ll hit everything up there. I even caught a few fishing spinnerbaits in the lilly pads! You can’t miss if you fish cut-bait, especially around any the bridges/channels where there’s a little current.
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It’s true, they’ll hit everything up there. I even caught a few fishing spinnerbaits in the lilly pads! You can’t miss if you fish cut-bait, especially around any the bridges/channels where there’s a little current.
If you like catching them. White single willow spinnerbait with red trailer fished around in East lake. You will catch plenty of cats. I caught 7 or 8 in about 20 minutes then high-tailed it out of there. The ones that hit spinnerbaits are the 5-6lbers too.
B BK did you stay at Riverside?
I am glad to hear they are easy to catch aside from the obvious reason. I won’t be fishing hard because it is a get away with our friends and mothers.
We”ll have a Pontoon (sorry Kev) so catching a few cats while anchored and relaxing should be a hoot! I’ve seen some dandy pictures of bass from there as well.
Thanks guys. Now I have to restrain myself from talking about it or Michelle’s going to get pissed off hearing about it.
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B BK did you stay at Riverside?
I am glad to hear they are easy to catch aside from the obvious reason. I won’t be fishing hard because it is a get away with our friends and mothers.
We”ll have a Pontoon (sorry Kev) so catching a few cats while anchored and relaxing should be a hoot! I’ve seen some dandy pictures of bass from there as well.
Thanks guys. Now I have to restrain myself from talking about it or Michelle’s going to get pissed off hearing about it.
No, we stayed at the other one.. Island View.
I’m serious when I say you can anchor anywhere you want and catch catfish steadily. Its like no place I have ever seen, probably millions of catfish in there.
That’s cool. Maybe the first time these people going with me catch one, they’ll be hooked and want to find a monster.
Der, I just realized there is a Horseshoe Chain section. 
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Is this the horseshoe chain by st. cloud? If so you can catch catfish on anything and everything you throw. Any place in any lake. Any bait you want to fish with, from waxworms to topwater frogs.
Obviously not familiar with Pug, eh?
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