There's a damn good chance I'm going to go catfishing tonight.

[jeremys]

when i fish, it's mostly on a pretty large lake (up here in wisconsin). i've always caught cats when i've been fishing for walleyes. but now when i want to catch a cat, i catch all the damn walleyes. all i catch on crawlers is carp, and little stock walleyes are all over the minnows..

 

[poultrygeist]

Re: Re: Re: There's a damn good chance I'm going to go catfishing tonight.

Damn straight.

A friend's dad just went fishing in Oklahoma and caught an assload of cats on limb lines, including a 50 pound flathead. I saw a picture of it yesterday...

It almost turned me on.

Saw in a magazine a picture of two guys from alabama or arkasas holding up a 90 pound flathead that was impaled by two sticks. Unbelievable.

Have you tried the milk jug method for catfishing? put a heavy line on a milk jug, bait the hook and wait for the jug to move around. Fun to do while your fishing regular. pick up the jug and haul him in the boat.

 

[Testosterone boy]

These stories remind me of the Fisherman Johnny days at my grandparents farm. best days of my life. Catching snapping turtles with jugs and perch filets is interesting. So is swimming nekkid in a pond with them turtles.

 

[XBiker]

Real men noodle for cats.

 

[Ish]

lol, to me, noodling just sounds weird. I'm not going to randomly stick my arm in holes hoping a fish will bite it and not something else. I'm just chicken.

Real men noodle for cats.

 

[big4life]

lol, to me, noodling just sounds weird. I'm not going to randomly stick my arm in holes hoping a fish will bite it and not something else. I'm just chicken.

What's the matter, this doesn't look like fun to you?

And no, there is no way in hell that I would do that either.

 

[biteme]

My grandfather and uncle use to do it. Said they pulled out a catfish that weighed nearly 100 pds.

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Fuckin'A Cas...Hope you kill those bad boys.Post us up some pics if you do well!I love fishing for Cats at night.I always attach a bell to my rod tip and stay within arms reach of it.I learned the hard way on that shit after watching a couple of poles shoot out into the water like giant bottle rockets,lol.

 

[beefybull]

I have a feeling Cas got owned by the fish!

 

[casavant]

Well, I caught two channel cats. One was about three pounds, and the other was a fiddler, but still big enough to filet.

It was a good time to chill out on the cheap:

Chicken livers: $0.97

Size 2/0 fish hooks: $0.67

Split shot and egg sinkers: $1.50

Cheap-ass flashlight w/ batteries: $1.97

I drove out to my little hometown and fished on the river that borders the municipal children's park. I used two poles. One I cast into a calm area bordering a feeder creek. The other I cast into a deeper part 100 yards away with pretty strong current. Surprisingly, both fish came out of the current. Maybe if I'd gotten there earlier than 2am they would have been hitting in the still shallows by the feeder creek. It's a prime place for them to prowl for food (I've caught 'em there before), but as it was I got my bait stolen constantly. Probably bream and suckers. Anyway, I cracked both my catfish over the head with a big stick and took them home and fileted them up.

I don't have to work tomorrow, so I think I'll head out to a different part of the river tonight and try my luck there. Maybe even haul a little brother or two with me.

I'll run some jug and limb lines later on in the year, but that's a much bigger production that involves hauling a boat and seining live bream out of our farm pond for bait. I'll stick with the fishing poles and the chicken livers for now.