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"The Yellow Perch Pattern is more so a Northern catcher I believe, Jeff. The Silver /Black Back and…"
Do you love big bluegill?
Any of you catch catfish while bluegill fishing?
I'm finding that the catfish sometimes outnumber my bluegill catch rate. At any rate I suspected there were bigger catfish in my waters and went on a handlining trip a couple week ago:
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Permalink Reply by carl hendrix on
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Damon;; Im constantly catching kittie fish when I go after blue gills ! then again;; I also catch bass; crappie; stripe; also ! these little foam bugs I make; I call a rascal;; tipped with a small piece of nite crawler;; have hammered some fish for me for the last few years
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neat little video you have on hand lining catfish Damon;; especially like your outboard motor!
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Permalink Reply by Slip Sinker on
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nice video Damon...
great way to put the fish in the cooler though on minimum tackle.
yes we catch some lunker cats fishing for the panfish.
heres a couple the past two years focused and fishing for the gill
the channel cat was caught on Carl's Rascal on a dropshot with worm bit... just short of Master Angler
the upper right pic was a BullHead Earl caught while we were positioned off a steep break with drop shot and crawler... the was a Master Angler for him.
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Permalink Reply by Damon Toney on
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Nice! Never caught a bullhead, don't even know if they're in my area. Every time I catch bluegill and use for bait I don't catch many cats.
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Permalink Reply by Lord of the Fly , Rods on
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Damon, I have been on spot just wearing them out then all of a sudden the bluegill turn off , well I continued fishing and and have put some big catfish in the boat and after this intruder was taken out of the area the bluegill came back and started biting again. . The biggest catfish I have caught on a flyrod doing this weighed 14 pounds. LOFR
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14 pounder on what sized fly rod?
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Damon, my main battle
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Sorry , that didn't post right, Damon , My main Battle Rod is a 25 year old Browning Graphite 8 -1/2 ft #6 weight , it enough to pull the big bluegill out of the brush and you never know when you are going to catch a big cat. LOFR
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lol, Browning. I was wondering: Goodness John Browning made fly rods too, lol.
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Permalink Reply by David, aka, "McScruff" on
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Ill catch channel cats when worm fishing near the bottom.
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Yeah, that's about how I ended up finding where the cats were hiding.
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During the summer the gills move away from shore to deeper water. These sites are creek channels, drop offs and humps/holes, mostly.
I usually have a a line down while Im jigging or spin fishing, and the cats will come to the worms. Its maybe the one problem with earthworms (if you can call it that) - they are universally taken by all fish.
And I never mind the catfish - its my favorite fish to eat.
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