Bob, you talking Peltier Dam off 35? Ive been there long ago, too bad you don’t have a pic, yeah channel’s will hit a lure, Ive caught a few in fast water on a mepps spinner

Great information, never give up!
is that girth x girth x length / 800 ?

Iowa josh, Yeah I seen that someplace, that anal fin does look like a blue but same old argument “blues that far north?” but hybrid channel-blue catfish maybe? Damn big fish anyway

Very cool, when I was a kid with my dad down at blow-horn I seen a guy snag the biggest channel I ever seen had to be 25 plus, big female in the spring I’m guessing, he pulls up, grabs a big rod and treble hook and starts ripping the bottom, its all sand there, he pulls this big channel up and throws it in his trunk and takes off, I think he had did this before, of course I wanted to do the same and my Dad said ” Don’t even think about it, that’s Illegal” so I never did.

Smoker, wow I wonder if its still around, yeah one of the guys I was talking to last week at the river said his brother knew fussy. Mr bead, yes there is a lot of good looking spots on that stretch of river, one of my favorites is that big snag just north of lowry bridge on the west side. any of you guys notice that weird spot next to the north Island next to NSP, its in the middle of the main river channel, I spent a good hour floating over that thing this last summer, years before I thought it was a discharge pipe from NSP because my depth finder (flasher then) would break up, now with this depth finder I see it gets deep in front and to the east and shallow to the south and west, there’s a spot that my depth finder says it like 2ft but when I try to touch bottom with a ore it’s deep? I now think its big boulders or a sunken Island or something natural, really gets boiling, hard to stay on it, it will push you around very strange place, kind of spooky. but if it is that shallow someones going to lose a lower unit, people fly across it wide open all the time

Mr.beads great info, this is great to talk to people that know the river, love this stuff. so your talking closer to the bridge and more in the heavy current?

Smoker, so it was just the head mount? how did it look? that fish and the story just stays in my head. thanks

Haa you got it Andy I’ll try corn or anything and yes that’s a cool book. I think I’m going to spend the money and see if I can find that old newspaper story. thanks for the reply

It’s great at night, same here as far as size had one channel just over 10lb but I was looking for flathead all summer with live bait, decoy suckers, next year going to try cut bait. and yes a lot of small mouth, some walleye’s but I got that Damn cat fish bug! I do better below the lock and dam from shore, use to go through the locks and that was great til they closed em. I got a 18lb flathead under the 10 ave bridge back then. thought about coming up river from hidden falls but they close the ford lock at 8 pm and that just blows, I don’t need to be told when to get off the river so now it’s boom Island to just north of camden in the boat. well maybe I’ll see you on the river. thanks for the reply.

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