well guys..im exhausted. worked 8-5 today, came home ate dinner and rerigged all the cat rods and set up my gear and the whole 9yds. today i bought new line. 20lbtest berkly big game supreme. i forgot when i bought my walmart special "cat rod" i bought dad one too. i found it when i was getting my lantern from the shed..which i bought stuff to fix it too. so i relinned my cat rod and dads rod with the new line. im saving for a bow and ALMOST there so i didnt wanna spend 20 bucks to fill one rod of good braided line. i will buy some later on and use it for leaders..but i must say i like the big game supreme line. casts good and is strong stuff. i used it for my main line and leaders tonight. i was kinda disappointed that my bait trap only had about 10 baitfish in it. but the good news was that they were all mostly GOOD 3-5 inchers. so i ran and grabbed the ultra light and caught about 5 more for good measure. got to the spot around 815PM. soon as i casted both rods out and sat down one started twitching hard. set the hook and had on a good feeling fish. he wrapped me up in the same log jam that i lost what i think was a GOOD fish 2 days ago in. rebaited(he spit the hook in the log pile..he didnt bust me off!) and recasted. 10 minutes later the same rod bowed over..WHAM!! FISH ON!!! GOOD FISH ON!! he ran me into the SAME log pile yet again!! this time i played him smart. i let him do his thing. kept pressure on him and then gave him a quick slack line and a hard jerk. did that a few times till he came out..boy was he PI$$ED to get yanked outa there. line was flying off the reel. finally horsed him in and man i broke my record..yet again. if this one aint a 10+lber im quitting! someone PLEASE say hes a 10+ lber!! my buddy blew up his truck today so he was going to work on it. my cousin stood me up and never showed..so i had no camera men. tomarrow ill try to get measurements of the rod in the pic to try to get a legnth estimate..but its a 7 foot rod i think. reel is rated for 20lb test. the rod is rated for 25lb test...that gives you an idea of the size of the rod. i also landed another nice one...and a smaller one. all 3 were flatheads. also caught a white bass. i felt bad for him. i set the hook like i always do and i probably yanked him half way in! lol..here goes the pics...

the first and biggest one..






the other nicer one


sorry for the pics...they stink..im mad there wasnt a camera man...but hey..i caught them and had a blast doing it. if anyone ever watched the show "the best and worst of tred barta" you know his saying..something like " i do things the hard way..the Barta way!"..fishing and hunting alone doing it all himself etc. that was me tonight! but i had a blast!!

ps.....what do you think they weigh?!? lol. i know they are pretty decint cats for around here. keep in mind the state record flathead is only 43lbs and some change. im proud of myself..i think im doing pretty good for just getting into serious catfishing...breaking that record is allllllways in the back of my mind now! lol. i KNOW theres MUCH bigger cats in the river...there isnt too many diehard catchasers though..