I thought I would put up a quick report of our recent trip to Selkirk. 4 of us made the voyage here from MN across the border (3 adults and 1 6yr old). We basically fished 3.5 days and caught fish the entire time we had a line in the water. It sure is a lot of fun when fishing is so good that it just becomes a numbers game! It got pretty crazy at times with doubles and triples, but I’m very confident that we weighed and accounted for nearly every fish. We generally fished in the time frame of 3pm to 1am every day but the stupid crazy action was from about 9pm-midnight. Day 4 was a bit different from the rest as it was nonstop action right when we first got there about 2pm and then really tapered off at night. In the end the grand total was 165 cats what weighed an astonishing 2818lbs. That’s an average of over 17lbs! Our biggest fish was 26.4lbs but we also caught 2 other 26lbers. Almost half the fish were over 20lbs (53 total) and only about 10 were under 10lbs. We also caught 2 tagged fish. Here is a breakdown of fish by weight day by day: (oh and for those reading this that might not know, these are all channel catfish, no flatheads or blues in this river).
Day 1 (half day): 21 18 16 22 15 18 23 26 21 11 22 21 12 12 11 24 20 8
Day 2: 22 12 21 20 26 15 18 18 24 12 21 21 22 19 2 3 17 20 19 18 21 21 21 19 14 16 18 18 14 22 20 5 19 19 21 18 17 13 18 22 19 17 26 5 11 15 17 22 16 23 3 15 19
Day 3: 18 18 15 14 20 11 17 14 15 15 18 20 17 17 20 5 21 23 19 8 23 22 16 18 17 21 19 19 18 12 12 17 2 23 21 17 22 21 25 15 20 16 12 21 12 21 22 23 21 24 23 17 2
Day 4: 13 14 15 20 19 4 8 19 18 18 17 17 20 10 17 14 18 16 11 18 18 18 13 17 17 18 24 16 13 18 18 19 15 21 17 19 19 20 10 20 16
We didn’t measure many fish, just the biggest one or two which was about 37.5 x 24.5.
As with past Selkirk trips/reports I’ve made, its tough to describe the experience unless you just do it yourself first hand. One of the guys with us was there for the first time and I think I recall him at one point during a triple, saying “All I can say is this is just out of hand”. LOL The best part of the whole deal is that you don’t need much catfish knowledge to catch fish in Selkirk. A little general knowledge goes a long way up there. Sure we have learned some valuable things over the past 4 or 5 trips, but during the latter part of August, IMO, it is about the closest thing you can get to “a sure thing” when it comes to catching fish. Get yourself some Frogs, a heavy set up, and find an outside bend. Not much else to it really. Once the fish let you know where they are in relation to the main channel, just make a few fine tune adjustments with either your casts or anchor position so that everyone in the boat can catch fish, and then just sit back and wait for the mayhem.
By the way, 6yr old Adam outfished the rest of us, with a total of 49 fish. We set up a little fighting chair for him and he winched every one of them in all by himself, The only thing we did was cast for him. To me this was truly amazing considering how hard these fish fight! A lot of fun to watch!
If you enjoy catfishing, this trip really needs
Video here
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