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This is the first of two smallmouth caught on cutbait. The second one caught at dusk went about 2.5 lbs. This is pretty typical when I go channel cating in swift water.
…and no whiskers! 
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Is this a gotcha thread for me?
I did tinker with using your name in the title…
You might say your a bass guy, but your not fooling us. I’ve seen you bleed cat slime. 
Are you really talking about bass? 
There must be something better to talk about.
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Is this a gotcha thread for me?
I did tinker with using your name in the title…
You might say your a bass guy, but your not fooling us. I’ve seen you bleed cat slime.
2 completely different types of fishing. I like casting because it keeps me busy and from becoming impatient. And I like the challenge of both. But given a chance to hold either in my hands, I’ll take a flathead. Something magical about them, literally.
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It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a bass would nail something dancing in the current that smelled like a minnow.
What about catching a smallie at the Ruins on a doughball? Got one while carpin’ there back in the day before it was a park. 
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What about catching a smallie at the Ruins on a doughball? Got one while carpin’ there back in the day before it was a park.
No story from the ruins would shock me. I am guessing that bass had issues.
About two weeks ago, while fishing for bowfin, I caught a 12″ tiger musky on cutbait. Followed it up 15 minutes later with a big perch, also on cutbait. A couple days later, a walleye and a largemouth bass also took my cutbait. It has me reconsidering the versatility of cut sucker.
Makes you wonder under what conditions would fish that are primarily hunters scavenge and why.
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Makes you wonder under what conditions would fish that are primarily hunters scavenge and why.
I think your assuming bass are part of the fish family, which may be your first mistake…
Al
Besides cats, I have one Long Nose Gar one eel and one sauger on my list of cut bait catches.
Well one 7 pound walleye too if you call 5 dead fatheads on a circle hook cut bait. 
The strangest for me was a northern out of the Mississippi on cut bait. Of course, it hit as soon as the bait hit the water, so it was probably just being aggressive.
I’ve told the story on here before of the pike that stole my cutbait and hook several times over 2 evening. That was before I put on a leader and discoverded pike will eat cutbait. It doesn’t have to be fresh and moving either.
Here I always though it only worked in winter and right after ice out. This was the dead of summer when it happened.
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The strangest for me was a northern out of the Mississippi on cut bait. Of course, it hit as soon as the bait hit the water, so it was probably just being aggressive.
A buddy’s kid caught a 5# Northern on the Mississippi on, get this:
Chicken liver.
Our guess is that a bit of connective tissue was hanging off the hook looking a lot like a spinner bait as the kid reeled it in.
Apparently it made quite the tasty meal! The fish, that is, not the chicken liver. Eeew.
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From an Ido viewer:
This is the first of two smallmouth caught on cutbait. The second one caught at dusk went about 2.5 lbs. This is pretty typical when I go channel cating in swift water.
…and no whiskers!
You had me, then you lost me…I THOUGHT you said “Smallmouth FOR cutbait.”
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From an Ido viewer:
This is the first of two smallmouth caught on cutbait. The second one caught at dusk went about 2.5 lbs. This is pretty typical when I go channel cating in swift water.
…and no whiskers!
You had me, then you lost me…I THOUGHT you said “Smallmouth FOR cutbait.”
We are walking on tender ground…
I know that spot
Here’s my “caught on cut” list:
Flathead
Channel cat
Walleye
Sauger
Sheephead
Smallies
Largies
Crappie
Perch
Bluegill (ran out of worms)
Northern Pike (at least 5 just last year)
Mooneye
Dogfish
Gar
Turtles of at least three species
Crayfish
The fish I’ve caught on cut bait for cats are:
smallmouth
walleye
northern pike
sheepshead
sturgeon
bullhead
and there’s always turtles
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The fish I’ve caught on cut bait for cats are:
smallmouth
walleye
northern pike
sheepshead
sturgeon
bullheadand there’s always turtles
And no catfish at all?? That’s crazy!
Yeah, I know, no catfish when that usually happens.
It can be a big dissappointment, then again, catching something other than your targetted species is always a bonus. 
and here I though ‘gills eating my fatheads was weird. Ive actually caught more turtles than cats this year, four compared to the big zip-o
I pulled another graveyard shift for cats. There was lots of hit and runs immediately within the first few minutes of placing my cutbaits in the water. Somehow no hookups for the first hour. Then when I finally caught a fish, it turned out to be a walleye. The following 20 minutes later, I had a tap, tap, tap, and gave it a good hook set. Heavy weight and this thing wasn’t really moving at all. Felt almost like dead weight with a few pull here and there. After a 5 minute tug or so, I new it was gonna be a snapping turtle. That’s how they are. Got it up to the edge of shore and saw the big head and open jaw of that thing. I couldn’t drag it onto the bank, it was just too big and scary looking too. After some real tug of war with that thing, the hook unbuckled from it’s mouth and it slipped back into the depths. All night long, nothing else after the snapping turtle incident. No catfish.
So I decided to pull the morning shift too. Well, what didya’know. The catfish were biting with the sun hitting the water. It was a furious bite for about an hour. I was gonna log into another catless night, wait I did. LOL’s just turned out more to be a daylight bite.
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