The three best knots for Catfishing. - Bluegill - Big Bluegill2024-03-28T14:34:38Zhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/forum/topics/the-three-best-knots-for-catfishing?groupUrl=bigbullhead&commentId=2036984%3AComment%3A735818&groupId=2036984%3AGroup%3A67278&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSounds much more exciting the…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-07:2036984:Comment:7363312017-09-07T13:42:42.046ZJohn Sheehanhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/JohnSheehan
<p>Sounds much more exciting then my exploits .LOL!</p>
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<p>Sounds much more exciting then my exploits .LOL!</p>
<p></p> I have the mold to pour bank…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-07:2036984:Comment:7361762017-09-07T01:28:30.326ZAllen Morganhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/AllenMorgan
<p>I have the mold to pour bank sinkers in 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-oz. I also have a stash of 6- and 8-oz bank sinkers. Whatever it takes to hold in current.</p>
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<p>Of course, sometimes you don't want the bait to stay in one spot. I typically threw a Kentucky rig with a 5-oz weight, on my 12' surf rod. 40 lbs test braid and leader. No shock leader, although with a 40 lbs test leader and a 5-oz weight, you don't really need a shock leader. I would fish this rig below Keystone Dam, OK, in…</p>
<p>I have the mold to pour bank sinkers in 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-oz. I also have a stash of 6- and 8-oz bank sinkers. Whatever it takes to hold in current.</p>
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<p>Of course, sometimes you don't want the bait to stay in one spot. I typically threw a Kentucky rig with a 5-oz weight, on my 12' surf rod. 40 lbs test braid and leader. No shock leader, although with a 40 lbs test leader and a 5-oz weight, you don't really need a shock leader. I would fish this rig below Keystone Dam, OK, in the turbine outlet when they were generating with 12,200 cfs. This looks like a boiling cauldron of Hell. The goal was to throw the rig up against a concrete wall, where there is just a little bit of slack water. Once it splashed down, flip the bail closed and start reeling slowly. You'll feel it hit bottom, and start to slide across the bottom from the force of the current. You didn't want to let the line come out of the outflow before you start reeling like a madman, or you'd hang up on a rock pile right at the mouth. You were feeling for the THUMP! of a cat hitting your bait. With a circle hook, it's pretty much an instant hookup. Due to the size of the area I was fishing, and the force of the current, I'd get maybe 60 - 120 seconds in the strike zone.</p>
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<p>You have to hit an area maybe 3' wide and a hundred feet long. You want to hit that zone as far away as you can, to give your bait more time in the strike zone. Cats are holding in that zone, waiting for stunned and mortally-wounded bait to come through the turbines. Make that cast, over and over and over again, until either your arms give out, or you catch what you want/need.</p>
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<p>I caught a 24 lbs Blue doing that. Hung into at least one, probably two, large Spoonbill Paddlefish as well. Striped Bass would be INSIDE the roiling waters. A live Bluegill on a large circle hook, either tossed out with minimal weight, or a large float, would get Stripers in that roiling mess.</p> WOW a 4 oz Sinker .I use 3/8…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7359992017-09-06T12:44:57.197ZJohn Sheehanhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/JohnSheehan
<p><strong>WOW a 4 oz Sinker .I use 3/8 oz LOL but I can see for Blues in Big Rivers like fishing High Tide in an inlet for Fluke ,the need for bigger weights.It's just so different from what I'</strong></p>
<p><strong>m doing now for Channel Cats and Bullheads.I am all ears here though Allen and thanks!</strong></p>
<p><strong> Need to practice the Twisted Dropper Loop Knot .</strong></p>
<p><strong>WOW a 4 oz Sinker .I use 3/8 oz LOL but I can see for Blues in Big Rivers like fishing High Tide in an inlet for Fluke ,the need for bigger weights.It's just so different from what I'</strong></p>
<p><strong>m doing now for Channel Cats and Bullheads.I am all ears here though Allen and thanks!</strong></p>
<p><strong> Need to practice the Twisted Dropper Loop Knot .</strong></p> The Kentucky Rig. Tied with…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7358182017-09-06T12:36:29.155ZAllen Morganhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/AllenMorgan
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2167486469?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2167486469?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721"></img></a> The Kentucky Rig. Tied with 20 lbs test Big Game. Swivel on one end, tied with a Clinch Knot. Twisted Dropper Loop a few inches away. The hook is attached via a loop-to-loop method between the hook eye and the dropper loop. This works well with an upturned eye. I wouldn't recommend a straight-eye hook for this, the direction of pull isn't straight and you won't get good…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2167486469?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2167486469?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="721"/></a>The Kentucky Rig. Tied with 20 lbs test Big Game. Swivel on one end, tied with a Clinch Knot. Twisted Dropper Loop a few inches away. The hook is attached via a loop-to-loop method between the hook eye and the dropper loop. This works well with an upturned eye. I wouldn't recommend a straight-eye hook for this, the direction of pull isn't straight and you won't get good hookups. Bottom end has a 4 oz bank sinker tied with a Palomar knot. I find that easier to do than a Clinch knot, but a Surgeon's Loop and doing a loop-to-loop connection will work as well.</p> Thanks!
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p></p> AH AH Bullhead thief !
tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7359962017-09-06T12:20:45.061ZJohn Sheehanhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/JohnSheehan
<p>AH AH Bullhead thief !</p>
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<p>AH AH Bullhead thief !</p>
<p></p> Well, I guess since I have mu…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7359952017-09-06T12:18:22.722ZAllen Morganhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/AllenMorgan
<p>Well, I guess since I have multiple responses in this thread, I'm still getting notifications :)</p>
<p>Well, I guess since I have multiple responses in this thread, I'm still getting notifications :)</p> Think "dropshot", only super-…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7358962017-09-06T12:17:48.312ZAllen Morganhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/AllenMorgan
<p>Think "dropshot", only super-sized. Leader between 2 - 5 feet long, bank sinker on the bottom, with a hook on a dropper loop somewhere between the swivel and sinker. I usually tied them about 4' long, with the hook about 12" from the swivel. It's best used in deeper water, to keep the bait up off bottom. Blues have a hard time getting bait on bottom, as their pot belly gets in the way.</p>
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<p>If you're having success with a slip-rig, put a small float on the leader a few inches…</p>
<p>Think "dropshot", only super-sized. Leader between 2 - 5 feet long, bank sinker on the bottom, with a hook on a dropper loop somewhere between the swivel and sinker. I usually tied them about 4' long, with the hook about 12" from the swivel. It's best used in deeper water, to keep the bait up off bottom. Blues have a hard time getting bait on bottom, as their pot belly gets in the way.</p>
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<p>If you're having success with a slip-rig, put a small float on the leader a few inches away from the hook. This will help hold the bait up off bottom somewhat, depending on current speed. I used the smallest styrofoam slip-float I could get at Wal-Mart back in OK, but haven't seen those floats up here. I could probably use a small ice-fishing float; they're about the size of a marble.</p> I'll have to look. It was 6…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7357512017-09-06T12:09:51.363ZAllen Morganhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/AllenMorgan
<p>I'll have to look. It was 6 or 7 years ago, and the only time I caught a couple in that creek. Normally it's Yellow Bullheads only in OK, and they don't get much bigger thank 9". Bigger catfish tend to kill them as Bullheads are nest-robbers.</p>
<p>I'll have to look. It was 6 or 7 years ago, and the only time I caught a couple in that creek. Normally it's Yellow Bullheads only in OK, and they don't get much bigger thank 9". Bigger catfish tend to kill them as Bullheads are nest-robbers.</p> Would love to catch Blue Cats…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2017-09-06:2036984:Comment:7358172017-09-06T11:52:38.823ZJohn Sheehanhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/JohnSheehan
<p><strong>Would love to catch Blue Cats ! I am digging your Oklahoma Catfishing Lore Allen.My wife's grandparents on her mothers side were from Norman OK.</strong></p>
<p><strong> We have invasive Flatheads in NJ but I haven't seen any .White Catfish too but again I haven't seen them .I am told no Black Bullheads in NJ .I catch Yellows and Browns only ,up to 14". If you have a pic of one of your Black Bullheads I'd like to see that !</strong></p>
<p><strong>Would love to catch Blue Cats ! I am digging your Oklahoma Catfishing Lore Allen.My wife's grandparents on her mothers side were from Norman OK.</strong></p>
<p><strong> We have invasive Flatheads in NJ but I haven't seen any .White Catfish too but again I haven't seen them .I am told no Black Bullheads in NJ .I catch Yellows and Browns only ,up to 14". If you have a pic of one of your Black Bullheads I'd like to see that !</strong></p>