Cutbait Size

Have you ever used or thought of using cutbait the size this guy used?
2#s??? I guess it would make sense if you want a back flat.

They left out some info that would have been nice, like length, girth, and weight. I just looked up the old record. It was 63-8, is this fish more than that? I am not a good judge of weight on catfish. It also looks like June is a hot month in South Dakota since the previous record was also caught in June.

that one nice fish

I am curious to know if it was top sirloin, bone-in ham or a whole chicken. Seriously, I’d like to know what the 2# fillet was.

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I am curious to know if it was top sirloin, bone-in ham or a whole chicken. Seriously, I’d like to know what the 2# fillet was.

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Probably sucker or carp would be my guess.

Yeah, probably carp. Where it’s legal, it’s dynamite cut bait.

Sounds a little fishy. Throws a 2 lb. piece of cut bait, but is using his cousins smallest rod and 9lb spiderwire? How could he throw a cut that big with that setup? And how big of a hook would he use to hold it? If he did have a hook big enough, how did he set the hook with the lightweight rod?

Sorry but I have to call BS on this one. Maybe it is supposed to be 2″ cutbait?

Agreed. A 2lb anything getting cast out from the ‘smallest rod’ with 10lb Spiderline would break that line in an instant!!!

Nice fish though.

2 pounds?

I hate to ask, but what are the regs on cutbait in MN? Why can’t you use carp if you catch it in the same water? Seems silly.

Seems odd to me too. If they’re dead, what’s the difference?

Seems silly, but that’s the regs. I am guessing that the DNR doesn’t want any grey area there–they just want to keep carp from getting in places they aren’t already in, so they just made it real simple.

Is there any lake where they aren’t already?
I was also thinking that you rarely catch a small carp. You’d probably have a nice carcass left over after fishing and they probably fear shorelines littered with carp carcasses. Oh I miss those days going down to the creek with the wonderful smell of 20 carp roting on the shoreline.

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Is there any lake where they aren’t already?
I was also thinking that you rarely catch a small carp. You’d probably have a nice carcass left over after fishing and they probably fear shorelines littered with carp carcasses. Oh I miss those days going down to the creek with the wonderful smell of 20 carp roting on the shoreline.

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I know of a few lakes that don’t have them

I have caught a few carp around 10 inches that I figured would make outstanding flathead bait…oh well

I know, I fish one regularly that doesn’t have any too. Actually, probably most of the outstate lakes are for the most part carp free.

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Actually, probably most of the outstate lakes are for the most part carp free.

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I wouldn’t got that far, but I would say that your chances of finding a carp-free lake are greater in the outstate.

You right. You put it to words better.