Catfish are running

www.vanity.com ^ | 3/27/07 | eastforker

[eastforker]

click the name for the latest catch,maybe some one can post the catch, at least 60 pounds.

[eastforker]

Shadd!!

[Repeal The 17th]

This is a for true real story. I got one about the size of (well maybe just a tad bit smaller but not much) the one here in eastforker's pictures many years ago. I went down below a hydro dam walking the rocks after the water had gone down and wading in the big pools of water and picking up a few smaller fish (5 to 10 pounders) when in this one pool I bumped up into what I thought was a big rock and it started thrashing around and scared the freaking crap out of me. I picked up a stone about the size of a grapefruit and beaned it in the head and dragged it out of there and carried it up to the jeep. I took it and it weighed in at about 35 pounds. Meat was tough and tasted gamey, though, I prefer the little bitty tender catfish filets. I wish I was with eastforker when he pulled that big sucker in. There ain't no other thrill like it.

[aft_lizard]

It's a Pelosi Fish, stuck on the bottom sucking in mud and crud.

Anyways it's body looks to be to fat for a Blue Cat, is it a FLathead?

[Larry Lucido]

Never mind that.

When's dinner???

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the pics, that's a whopper!

BumP for the Texas Cowboy shoot.

Ran across this..

FILE ** George Marzeck holds a painting of a channel catfish Monday, Jan. 31, 2000, in his West Burlington, Iowa, home. Marzeck, a longtime outdoors writer, is pushing Iowa lawmakers to name the channel catfish as the state's official fish. Nearly 40 years after he first suggested it, the state Senate last week unanimously approved a resolution honoring the catfish. If approved by the House, Iowa would give official status to a fish found in all of the state's 99 counties. But Marzeck won't join in the celebration. He died in September at age 82, never achieving his longtime dream. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

[aft_lizard]

IN Eastern Kansas we used to get some really big ones, 100+ pounds, I think at one time Eastern Kansas held the world record for blue cats.

[eastforker]

Yes., It is a flathead!!!

[Repeal The 17th]

When you say trot line, what do you mean?
Bush Hook? Jug fishing? Or what?
We used to do a lot of jug fishing, back home.
You know you got something good when you see a gallon
clorox jug taking off across the lake so fast you can
hardly catch up to it.

[aft_lizard]

I knew it!! don't get to fish much for cat fish here in southern arizona, but used to love going to try and catch the big bragging rights catfish in eastern kansas.

[JoeSixPack1]

DAMn!

[denco]

Where Are you catching these fish?Denco

[Deut28]

I grew up fishing Pomona Lake, home of some of the state record fish, and multiple 100 lb catches.

Also use to have some incredible crappie fishing, though that has not been quite as good lately.

Every child should know how to use a rod and reel.

[Mike Darancette]

Ever try noodling for muskies?
-Bobby "Stubbs" Smith

[Dominic Harr]

Niiiiiiiiccccccceeeeeeee.

God bless Texas!

[bobbyd]

Eastfork of Lake Houston.!! 34 posted on 03/27/2007 7:51:58 PM PDT by eastforker

Ya just had to get your own thread...lol

go'on....get your ninety pounder.....take those pics quick....gonna be heavy

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Here in Missouri, the regulatory agency allowed a one season, one year, experiment with noodling for big catfish. They've decided that practice takes the bigger brood stock out of the picture so one year will be it.

[eastforker]

It's a line of any length with hook stagings about 6 foot apart anchored at both ends and depth controlled with weights and floats. This big one was in 18 feet of water about 4 feet off the bottom.

[Repeal The 17th]

You done good, son.

[eastforker]

More fish stories four today. About a 160 pounds.http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t125/eastforker/Glennsfishing033107001.jpg

[Repeal The 17th]

Those are some good ones, too.