uncadonego on 7/7/2009 at 17:10
This may sound like a load, because it's not typical bait for catfish, but one day when I caught the most catfish they were going nuts over a sinking Rapala mini fat rap MFR-3 CW. Now I know they like leeches or stink bait etc., but this day they went nuts on it. I'm not sure if it was the conditions or what, but they attacked a sinking bait time after time as I reeled it in quickly. I must have put 15 or more cats in the pond that day, others I released. It was after a lot of rain in early summer under a no longer used rail bridge built in 1893. In the wet season the water falls about two feet down into a pool about 70 or 80 ft. round, then continues trickling toward lake Erie. The pool has overhanging trees, so there is good shade. Maybe give it a try for 20 minutes or so.
My buddy collects his own snails, puts a couple on a hook, then squeezes the shells to make the take softer and more tempting. He says cats love them.
gunsmoke on 9/7/2009 at 17:37
WOW :eek:!!! Great catches. Were you with him there? I take it is northern Lake Erie? God, now you're making me want a new boat! :)
Gussss on 9/7/2009 at 19:04
:eek:
uncadonego on 9/7/2009 at 19:13
I wasn't with him that day, but a couple of times last year I went with his dad and we caught our limits that size. I went perch fishing with the guy in the pic a couple of weeks ago and we caught a whole mess of nice ones. We could have kept going but we forgot to bring a light source to see what we were doing after dark. You'll need an Ontario fishing licence just to be safe if you come over to the northern side, but there are some really good rainbow/steelhead. This pic is good/normal. Of course there are smaller ones as well. We have really nice walleyes too.
gunsmoke on 10/7/2009 at 06:10
Isn't Erie deeper on the northern side? I know it is pretty damn shallow over here.
uncadonego on 10/7/2009 at 17:25
We were in 65 feet of water when we caught our rainbows last year. It's way deep in some areas but that's about the average depth.
Well, my boy Jonah and I went to the dock for perch, but the wind was wrong and nobody reeled anything for half and hour, so we went to Hillman Marsh this morning.
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http://www.3dgathome.com/theadams/cgi-bin/hillman marsh.jpgThe carp were rolling, but I couldn't get any to take a nibble. All we had were minnows and worms, no stinky stuff. Jonah had one suck it in but spit it out immediately. There's no way a carp is going to keep anything in his mouth if he feels metal. They're not psycho inhalers like perch in the winter. So we had to settle for fresh catfish for lunch instead. My wife gets the batter golden and light better than I can so she cooked it for us. It was delicious.
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http://www.3dgathome.com/theadams/cgi-bin/lunch.jpgEven though I didn't get myself a carp to eat today, it was a really nice morning. There was a nice light breeze, it wasn't too warm, fish were jumping, carp were rolling, terns and great blue herons were fishing, lots of frog calls and redwing blackbirds song, turtles sunning on rocks, saw a mom deer with two kids, an eastern fox snake about a metre long, and a nice time between father and son. There's more to fishing than just catching fish.
gunsmoke on 11/7/2009 at 09:16
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Even though I didn't get myself a carp to eat today, it was a really nice morning. There was a nice light breeze, it wasn't too warm, fish were jumping, carp were rolling, terns and great blue herons were fishing, lots of frog calls and redwing blackbirds song, turtles sunning on rocks, saw a mom deer with two kids, an eastern fox snake about a metre long, and a nice time between father and son. There's more to fishing than just catching fish.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing that story with me. And, yeah, fishing is SO much more than just catching fish. As a Certified Nature Lover (TM), the rod and reel is only part of the experience for me. I see something amazing or interesting every trip, and always have some sort of story, no matter how insignificant from some experience that left an imprint in my mind. And some of my fondest childhood memories with my step-dad were when he was teaching me the ins-and-outs of fishing on a simple Zebco 202.
Ever seen the Mekong Catfish?
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http://www.vinaminh.com/wp-content/uploads/mekong-catfish.jpgI have been watching 'River Monsters' on Animal Planet this morning. I just saw the Kali River Maneater ep. The host caught this 161 lb. monster.
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http://www.fishchannel.com/images/fish-news/goonch-500.jpgOH and the catfish nuggets look great! Thumbs up to the little lady!
uncadonego on 11/7/2009 at 14:29
If I call her "the little lady"....she will HURT me!
Those suckers are huge! Big, big, bonus if they are considered edible!
Have you ever seen pics in fishing magazines of Nile Perch? They're edible and you can barely lift them! Sometimes two men can barely lift them. I'm sure their are some are big enough to angle for YOU!
According to (
http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/11/amazingly_huge.php) this website, this catfish had human remains in him! It may just be a whale shark though according to the post.
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http://www.3dgathome.com/theadams/cgi-bin/catfish1.jpgScrew Jaws, they ought to make a movie called Catfish!
EDIT: Holy crap, I just looked up the record largest.....the largest wels catfish was 800 lbs. and 13 ft. long, and the largest Mekong was 646 lbs. Even at one third that weight filleted, that's over 200 lbs of catfish in the freezer! Whoa! Catfish nuggets for a year in the freezer from one fish!!!!!
