A couple of my Wisconsin buddies and myself tried a little cat fish trolling at Petenwell a couple weeks ago. My friends all wanted to learn the ins and outs of trolling for cats as I had told them that is THE method to use to put lake cats in the boat. Sure enough, we had pretty good sucess as we caught about 60 in the day and a half of trolling we did. Used cut baits (sucker and blue gills) and a SSantee Cooper style float rig. I was using my usual Whisker Seeker Tackle floats ans was some of the other guys and others were using small slip bobbers above the hook…both were working well.
Even though we did catch 60 or so, none were bigger than 4 pounds. Kind of disappointing as far as sport fishing goes, but we did keep some and they were just the right size. We considered our adventure a completed sucess.
The boys returned last weekend to catch over fourty on Saturday. I think it is safe to say they are sold on Trolling for cats in lakes.
L8R…Ken