The Catfish Diaries

No, it isn’t a new show on the Discovery Channel, but instead an article in the Oakdale Lake Elmo Review.

Whose that guy pictured there?

And didn’t the record come out of the Croix?

Just for the record, your use case is a contraction of who and is, therefore the correct form is “who’s”.

And OOH LOOK! It’s Joel, our very own supastar of DNR Hero, the Amazing Catafishing Game for PS2, PS3, XBox and your nearest Lund dealership.

Ruh-roh! The grammar police!
If I didn’t have my spellcheck add-on, my posts would be (even more) illegible.

thats a will Hong fish

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Good article to get the diary info out!

Not the best article for promoting CPR in the catfishing comunity…

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Are you saying I should have read the article. I only like looking at the pictures.

Are you saying I should have read the article. I only like looking at the pictures.

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There was a fish in the story? I was looking at pics to and only saw Ms. Hong

That’s the third different paper I have seen that story run in. Oops, grammar police might get me for ending that sentence with a preposition. Yeah, she made a mistake on the record flathead. It was from St Croix and not the Miss. Don’t know if I made a mistake when I was giving a presentation or if she heard it wrong or what. It happens.

Joel

Weighing an impressive 70 pounds, the record-winning catfish could have made a whole lot of good po’ boy sandwiches.

Sorry Angie, gotta give ya one of these

Joel, if I recall correctly the record was first recorded as Pool 2 but then later “corrected” to the St. Croix. The record holder was trying to divert fishing pressure or something like that.

Since the cats are “averaging 50 pounds” on Pool 2, I’m thinking I’ll have to move my camper a little closer to Cottage Grove.

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Oops, grammar police might get me for ending that sentence with a preposition.

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I waste so much time editing my posts before submitting by trying to edit out hanging prepositions!!!

A curse on the English teacher who taught me that rule!

I like to hang a participle from my rear view mirror sometimes.

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Joel, if I recall correctly the record was first recorded as Pool 2 but then later “corrected” to the St. Croix. The record holder was trying to divert fishing pressure or something like that.

Since the cats are “averaging 50 pounds” on Pool 2, I’m thinking I’ll have to move my camper a little closer to Cottage Grove.

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I wasn’t aware of that possible misleading for that record. Seems weird since the guy that caught it was from Iowa.
I wish those flatheads were averaging 50 pounds. Biggest I have tagged this year has been 33 pounds.

Steve DeMars did some research on this a few years back. I’ll see if I can find his post.

We’ll both have to talk to Ms Hong and see where she’s fishing!

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Since the cats are “averaging 50 pounds” on Pool 2, I’m thinking I’ll have to move my camper a little closer to Cottage Grove.

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I’m watching you BK….

I did a little math this morning…..

Diary Stats

April
46 boat hours
4 cats
catch rate of .09 per hour or 11.1 hrs/cat

May
213.5 boat hours
29 cats
catch rate of .14 per hour or 7.1 hrs/cat

June
154 boat hours
26 cats
catch rate of .17 per hour or 5.9 hrs/cat

Totals so far
413.5 boat hours
59 cats average length of 29.6″
catch rate of .14 per hour or 7.14 hrs/cat