Posted on 10/22/2020 8:20:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
We used to take some cans of cheap dog food, punch holes in them with a can opener, and lob them into the water 30 or 40 feet from shore. We’d wait two or three hours while we consumed adult beverages, then toss lines out with just about any bait and reel in as many catfish (and trout, which are also bottom feeders) as we cared to catch.
1st, Thanks for your service in the military,
Here in Florida we have countless wild pigs.
Sometimes we catch a 40 or 50 pounder and feed it corn for a bit to clean it out getting rid of the grubs.
Wonder if you can put that big cat in a clean pond for a while feeding it pellets of some darn thing to clean it out??
Have seen them 4 or 500 lbs, Pigs that is.
Don't need no line if you noodle for catfish.
By the way, his home town is pronounced HAY-vannah.
About half way between Tallahassee and Atapulgus.
Oops. Attapulgus. Been a while since I’ve been through there.
Near AL-benny?...................
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A cat that old, fat, and swimming around in the ‘Hooch for years, eating whatever’s on the bottom washed downstream from Atlanta, ain’t gonna be worth the oil it takes to cook it. It’s too bad he couldn’t have kept it alive another few days. There are Bass Pro Shops in Prattville, AL, and just north of Altanta off 316 that would have loved to have had it in one of their habitat aquariums onsite. I’ve seen bruisers in those tanks that I can only dream about on my bucket list.
Not as good as the one and two pounders.
Enough special sauce will make either edible, but a properly fed one pound catfish can be a taste to behold. It’s like it has it’s own butter.
Someone finally caught General Sherman!
You can pick up TV from AL-benny, and Dothan, and Tallahassee, as I recall. Maybe not now since it’s all gone digital. But Al-benny is pretty much considered north Georgia, or at least middle Georgia.
This waltz down memory lane now has me wondering whether they still have Mule Day in Calvary. And if so, if they still have one that will go off the high dive.
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