catfishing today
 

first off i didnt snag em or make those marks on them they got in fight with other cats. and afterwards i got to see them give birth to thousands of babies. i caught 2 speckled cats around 4-6 lbs. each. i was also using small laker bait hook and i slpit shot sinker and 2 small minnows on the smae small hook


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cool having babies eh- nice picts Childers- i have seen 2 box turtles now laying eggs in my yard.

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nice the geese here are laying eggs also.

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Those speckled cats sound intresting& a good size to- i dont know what those of cats are off hand( do they have other names?)

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not that i know of.

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The speckled cat is a channel cat it seems.


CHANNEL CATFISH
Scientific Name: Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)
Other Common Names: spotted catfish, silver catfish, speckled catfish, forked-tail catfish, fiddler

( fiddler?)

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Take a closer look at the tail. Channel cats have a forked tail. Channel cats vary in colour but always have the forked tail. I have caught them black as coal w/mottled belly, tones of green/brown and varying shades of gray/blue. Here's pics of the 2 bigger channel we caught last night B4 the bty's died in my camera[&o]. The one w/me is greenish w/white bellyand the one of my buddy is grey. We also caught 12 drum and I got 1 bullhead. We got 5 cats total all over 30"....... luckily we got the pics of the biggest 2:)mine was 33.25 and my buddies was 34.5.
How are those cats to eat and have you ever fished there at dusk/night. Cats in my area tend hit at dusk and then again at 1-2am. Thats from shore........ from a boat you can hit the right spots and they hit all day. You just have to search for the spot that is most active in a given hole. 3-4 guys in a boat can hook 100 fish or more on a good day....... with a good capt.;)

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Forgot to mention......... Nice fish childers, dems is what I look for, for the table mmmmmm. And I like the look of them too. Pond, creek, lake or river????? Ever try shrimp or cut-bait? And how big is big for those guys. I've hooked good fish this yr but not big by local standards. Its all relative.

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i dont think its a channel. its a pond. not that good of fishing this year with the weather. and a neighborhood being built thats letting mud flow into our pond

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That speckled cat kind of looks like a relative of a bullhead.