Catfishin tonight...

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I have a bag of cut up perch out in the sun right now getting nice and ripe for the hook tonight. I am looking to catch a 20+ pounder in about 80 feet of water.

Will it happen?

Probably not. Throw that slop out, get some fresh cut, and hit the edge of a large flat where it drops off into 20+ feet.

If you're fishing in the day, then you wanna hit deep water with fresh cut. But at night they leave the holes and head to where the baitfish are.

[dimbee]

Didn't catch the 20+ pounder I was hoping for. Did catch about a 15 pounder.

bump for PSC

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Sorry.

I bet it was a nasty channel cat too.

EDIT: I keep live bream if I can with an aerator. Sometimes they like them live, sometimes they like them dead, so I use a little of both. But the key to big flatties and blues is fresh bait, regardless.

Just remember that you can stick both fists into the mouth of a 20+ lb catfish, so you're probably gonna need bigger bait too.

[Zod]

That's a flathead not a channel. Was hoping for a blue.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I didn't see the pic. Ugly flathead.

Think my fishing pics are too large to post on here.

[Zod]

20 feet is shallow on Norman, the dish finder rarely spots anything above 30 feet in the summer out there.

[dimbee]

20 feet is shallow on Norman, the dish finder rarely spots anything above 30 feet in the summer out there.

Does it distinguish between bowls and plates? How accurate is it?

I've been looking for some nice dinnerware....

[Zod]

The bowl was in the boat with me

[dimbee]

The bowl was in the boat with me

Smart

[Porn Shop Clerk]

20 feet is shallow on Norman, the dish finder rarely spots anything above 30 feet in the summer out there.

Day or night? I'm just saying you have to be in 20+ feet in the daytime. That's all the way up to 40-50 feet. For active feeding you want to find an expansive shallow flat that has a steep edge that drops into 20+ feet. Or an area where there are a lot of little 3-4 foot ridges on the bottom in 20+ feet. Or a bottleneck, like where 150 crosses the lake. I've always wanted to fish that spot in May or September for big cats, because they're truckin' through there.

Right now, I'd be hitting the flats or the mouth of a big shallow cove. Or a creek outlet. They're all over the place right now.

Oh, and mussel beds. They're hogging up the mussel beds right now.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09132002-090010/unrestricted/GristJDThesis1.prn.pdf

ANALYSIS OF A BLUE CATFISH POPULATION IN A SOUTHEASTERN

RESERVOIR: LAKE NORMAN, NORTH CAROLINA

By

Joseph Daniel Grist

Thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

MASTER OF SCIENCE

in

Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its a sekrit.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Oh, the biggest catfish I ever caught came out of 4 foot of water. You could actually see the water break and swirl when it picked up the bait and started swimming off with it.

Too bad I don't have a pic of that one, it was easily 35-40lbs +. As long as my leg and 3 times as big around. That fish was the very reason I got a camera to take fishing with me.

[Zod]

I had 2 hooks out, one with the nasty rotten cut fish, the other with a fresh one with a hook through it we had just caught. The rotten one got the fish's attention. It was putrid.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I've had more luck on cut bait than live bait myself. But I hardly ever get a hit off of something that's been laying around on the shore in the sun for more than 10 minutes.

Flathead lore suggests they only take live bait, and will rarely take dead bait, but the two nice flattie's I've caught were both on cut up bream, one was 17lbs, the other was 26lbs.

Believe it or not, but I think the best local lake for blue catfish is Mountain Island. But you won't catch a state record there.