Posted on 07/24/2009 7:19:19 PM PDT by eastforker
I only wish that before I die I could hookup on a catch like this. I found this old photo dated 1951 going through boxes from a storage lot I bought. On the back of the photo it states fiesh caught at Romayor Texas, Liberty County below an around RR bridge.It is my guess that the larger one there would probably go 140 pounds or better.
This is how it is supposed to be done!
“The ones that didn’t get away” - ping
What else is there to say?
Fried catfish, anyone?
I guess that’s from the Trinity River?
I would imagine so.I just about fell out of my chair when I discovered this pic.Those are some huge flatheads.
>> I only wish that before I die I could hookup on a catch like this.
Gotta tell ya — with that line, I was expecting a girl ... not a fish.
SnakeDoc
WOW!!!
When my uncles and my granddad would talk with each about their recent catches from the Trinity, the would often places fists together with their index fingers pointing outwards, a few inches apart. When I asked granddad what was so special about a six inch fish, he replied, ‘We measure them between the eyes’.
“each” = “each other”
saturday morning bump.
I don’t have a pic, but about 10 years ago my step father caught a catfish at Lake Arrowhead that looked like a shark! Huge fish
Hey, thought this might be of some interest to you.
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Not that size. The state record is only about 114 pounds, two of them in that pic would well exceed that by the looks of it.As stated earlier those two would probably exceed 140 pounds each.
Wow, what a catch.
I have heard stories from my great aunts and uncles about the big catfish caught on trotlines in the Nolichucky River, near here in east Tennessee.
One told me a big family would eat off one cat for a week, during the Great Depression, when food was scarce, unless you killed or caught it.
I sure would like to be catching some fish right now.
Thanks for the ping. I have been needing a fishing trip for my sanity. This is encouraging. Right now I’d settle for a few good bluegills, something to take my mind off things and give me a fair fight (LOL)
Wow, what a catch.
I have heard stories from my great aunts and uncles about the big catfish caught on trotlines in the Nolichucky River, near here in east Tennessee.
One told me a big family would eat off one cat for a week, during the Great Depression, when food was scarce, unless you killed or caught it.
I sure would like to be catching some fish right now.
Thanks for the ping. I have been needing a fishing trip for my sanity. This is encouraging. Right now I’d settle for a few good bluegills, something to take my mind off things and give me a fair fight (LOL)
Speaking of fishing in the Trinity River, this week’s Barbers Hill/Dayton newspaper carried a story of Bull Sharks coming up the Trinity. A five footer was caught on a trotline below the Livingston Dam. (Bull Sharks can easily survive in Fresh Water and are notorious Man Eaters).
It seems as though the drought is causing the estuaries around the Galveston/Trinity Bay complex to become too salty and fish are migrating North up the river. The Sharks are following their normal prey.
The story didn’t mention the San Jacinto or Neches Rivers, but WTH, anything is possible. (If they could survive the chemical plants and refineries on their way up those two rivers. LOL!)
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