Catfishermen? How many of you catfish?

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Catfishermen? How many of you catfish?

#1 Post by Homer Lee » Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:29 am

I love to cat fish, My personal best is a 30 pounder, but the bigger one will come.

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#2 Post by mike » Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:00 am

I have never tried it, but it sounds fun! I have caught a 58lb king salmon on the Kenai River back in the day, that was a great fight!
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#3 Post by badmoonrising » Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:38 pm

I do in the Upper Chesapeake, keep the smaller but legal ones for dinner and let the big ones go.
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#4 Post by BassFrequency » Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:26 pm

hey anyone ever caught a brady? :rofl heres one i caught last fall. ugly sobs aint they :biggrin2

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#5 Post by WaltF » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:48 pm

Youre right. Those Brady fish are ugly som-a-bitches...

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#6 Post by BassFrequency » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:16 pm

nice one walt :rofl :rofl :rofl

if anyone wants the hi res brady i drew up off his avatar, let me know :rofl :rofl :rofl
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#7 Post by Uncle Doug » Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:32 pm

Catfishing is all I do. Grew up using trott lines but they are a little difficult to run from a pontoon boat. We started jug/ fun noodle fishing this year. You can get just as many hooks in the water as a trott line but easier to work from a toon.

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#8 Post by toondog » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:29 pm

Uncle Doug wrote:Catfishing is all I do. Grew up using trott lines but they are a little difficult to run from a pontoon boat. We started jug/ fun noodle fishing this year. You can get just as many hooks in the water as a trott line but easier to work from a toon.
It really does help to have a front porch on your toon when doing the trot line thing. A trolling motor, grab/push pole and my extra long paddle really get a work out too.
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#9 Post by toondog » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:01 am

WaltF wrote:Youre right. Those Brady fish are ugly som-a-bitches...

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#10 Post by JMBroussard83 » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:15 pm

I do a good bit of catfishing on the rivers in Louisiana. We mostly jug/noodle them from the toon, it's pretty easy when you have lots of room to menuever. On a good day we can put 200-300# of fish on the boat.

We also do a lot of saltwater fishing with the toon, it handles much better than I expected in the South LA bays and marshes.
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#11 Post by BassFrequency » Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:28 pm

toondog wrote:
WaltF wrote:Youre right. Those Brady fish are ugly som-a-bitches...

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#12 Post by WaltF » Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:56 am

Doh!!! :rofl :devillol :rofl
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#13 Post by Lumpia » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:46 pm

I catfish as much as I can, however not having a boat is a problem. Personal best was a 42 pound flathead when I was 16.

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#14 Post by the bear » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:07 am

Not me but the wife does every weekend, I bought her a fishing boat for mothers day, her best is 36lb, with a hand full in the 20s....
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#15 Post by The_Hellbilly » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:46 am

I used to noodle and I still run a trot line from time to time. I've had several in the 40lb-50lb range. If you have ever seen "Okie Noodlin" you'll know what I am talking about. And, yes the majority of the population in Southeastern Oklahoma is well represented by the people in that movie :drink4
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