St Croix Summertime Catfish Bite is on!!

  • steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    July 19, 2007 at 4:14 pm #1228102

    The St Croix is at it’s summertime levels (675.4′) and the water temp is 78-80 degrees and the catfish seem to have finished up with their spawning and are hungry. Outdoors4Life has a great post showing some good channel cat action. StCroixer had a good night drifting for channels on Monday and hopefully he will make a report with some pictures.

    It looks like the St Croix summertime catfish season is set to go.

    I spent Tuesday and Wednesday evening chasing flatheads and had good success both nights. Tuesday I missed a nice fish at 10:41 after a heated 5 minute struggle. At 11:15 I caught a 32″ flathead that went about 15 pounds. I was pumped by finally getting into some flathead action so I stayed out until 1:30am but didn’t have any other runs for the night. It was a fun night even though the Twins lost a tough game to Detroit 1-0.

    Wednesday night I headed out again and tried out a new spot that I have been wanting to fish. The Twins game was driving me nuts and I was yelling at the radio in the bottom of the ninth inning when my clicker went into a screaming run. I hooked into a nice fish and missed the end of the game (they lost so I didn’t miss much). I boated a nice 39″ flathead about 26 pounds. All the flatheads were caught on bullheads.

    It looks like the St Croix flathead and channel cats are ready for some action. Let the games begin.

    Here is a picture of the Tuesday night flathead.

    steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    July 19, 2007 at 4:16 pm #591940

    Here is a picture of the Wednesday night fish.

    mark_johnson
    St. Croix River
    Posts: 940
    July 19, 2007 at 4:43 pm #591952

    Nice report and fish Steve
    I gotta get out and fish for some kitties soon!! Where are you getting the bullheads?

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    July 19, 2007 at 4:44 pm #591954

    Nice looking fish you found there Steve

    steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    July 19, 2007 at 5:18 pm #591970

    Mark – I’ve found a couple of small ponds that have bullheads in them. I keep a 100 gallon stock tank rigged up with an large aquarium filter and aerators and try to keep about 50 – 75 bullheads on hand. When my stock gets low I run out and catch a bunch of bullheads with hook and line. As a matter of fact I will need to make a restocking run this weekend. I usually go through 8 – 10 bullheads on each flathead trip.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59988
    July 19, 2007 at 6:45 pm #592021

    Nice fish and report Steve!

    mark_johnson
    St. Croix River
    Posts: 940
    July 19, 2007 at 7:03 pm #592029

    Quote:

    Mark – I’ve found a couple of small ponds that have bullheads in them. I keep a 100 gallon stock tank rigged up with an large aquarium filter and aerators and try to keep about 50 – 75 bullheads on hand. When my stock gets low I run out and catch a bunch of bullheads with hook and line. As a matter of fact I will need to make a restocking run this weekend. I usually go through 8 – 10 bullheads on each flathead trip.


    I normally get mine from that red cooler in BrianK’s garage, but the last few times that I snuck in there it was empty???
    …..Any idea which bait shop carries them?

    haywardbound
    New Brighton, MN
    Posts: 1107
    July 19, 2007 at 9:07 pm #592095

    Great report, Steve. See you out there.

    Jon

    protourbaits
    stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2466
    July 20, 2007 at 3:51 am #592235

    Steve- i haven’t seen you at Jimmy’s in awhile to buy suckers….now i know why

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