Forum: Catfish

Anyone hit the Crow yet for channel cats? Im going out this Sat and was wondering if they are starting to turn on or not.

question for u cat guys. i have been fishing kittys for 2 years now. I have not found the perfect rod. I was just wondering what u guys are using for flatheads in timber. I fish 4-8 oz weights with bullys. I am looking for a affordable rod, i would like it to have a strong back bone and a...

Well, maybe not a Lindy rig, but something close to it...:) Just curious, I have had some luck with a set up for carp that has a slip weight (bell sinker, 5/8ths nut, whatever) run on the main line, then attaching a swivel to keep the weight from going off the end of the line and then a 18-24"...

Use that graphite or graphite composite rod instead. It's far more sensitive than your typical fiberglass catfish rod. Feeling the difference between bait and sinker in the water tumbling around on the bottom to a soft tap or inhaled bait is what you're going to differentiate. Fishing in smaller...

For those who are looking for something to do Saturday, and like to river fish maybe try this. http://www.idofishing.com/forum/showflat.php/Number/902873/fpart/1/helping-the-dnr-help-the-catfishers-must-read The DNR is asking for help in tagging catfish, here's your chance to help the DNR and...

Its been slow for me. We got out for an over-nighter on Memorial weekend and only picked up one small Flatty. IARiverrat took this one just before dark. Only about 8 lbs but he smacked a 9" smoothie like it was a minnow and had the hook pretty deep all things considered. We fished some nice looking...

Well im bout to get back into the swing of things with the fishing. I kinda dissapeared for a couple months here. I usually take a coupld months off from end of feb to opener weekend n do some other stuff for spring. But I was just wondering since I just started getting into Cattin last year...

Pete and I fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and had decent action each night. Lots of small flats but we did get a few good nice ones too. Biggest was 45.5x28.5, 40x23.5 and a few more around 35"-36" All flats caught on bullies. Pete has a some better pics on his camera of the...

Wife and I are planning our first vacation in a long time this year, and thinking about trying Vermillion, never been there, they tell me its nice....:) Anyway, she's thinking the second week in June, as musky will be open and it looks like that week is open for her. Just wondering, we also...

(For whatever reason youtube distorted the sound in this video) YouTube- SSPX0194.3g2 I had it set in my mind that I would be going fishing this Sunday. I’m not sure why, but I decided I was going to go come hell or high water. The weather report was continuously being downgraded by the...

Here are a couple pics of a couple channels caught this w/e on cut sucker and cut smelt. No flat heads though. They have been pretty tough to find for me lately. Also hard to find is water with any amount of current with enough water to boat there! This little bit of rain was great but its just too...

I would THINK it would be a good night with the warmer temps and being on the front side of a low pressure system with the barrometer dropping for the fish to be snapping BUT like anyother night its jsut the right place right time. If you are out feel free to call... gonna be out a bit later...

Anybody thinking of hitting the river during the week, we're thinking of trying our luck for cats and whatever prob Wednesday or Thursday during the day. al

Andy and I went out and hit the SAME spots as JAson and I did the night before and we didnt get ONE RUN all night. Started at 5 pm and by the time 930 came around and not a bite yet I was DONE. Hopefull we can get out again and have some better luck Andy... Im gonna be on the river AGAIN with...

I have now fished down river of the SHakopee landing a few times and got a few decent spots we have done ok on. How is the fishing upriver between the landing and carver trestle? Is it worth the venture upriver or does the fishing tend to be better downriver? Im going out tonight with JohnWayne...

A few of camped this weekend on the Minnesota. We ended up getting into a nice mixed bag of fish over the weekend. Some drum, carp, buffalo, shovelnose, channels and even got into a handful of flats once again. Our best bite was late friday night after midnight through saturday morning. Pat and...

So we decided to fish some cats near shakopee tongiht and we spent 5 hours out there and tried 5 promising spots at the great time of night... I DIDNT HAVE A SINGLE TUG on my line for the first time this year. Didnt use bullies just used cutbait as its seems to always produce something. BUT on...

how many would someone suggest to take out on a evening? I figure 2 people fishing and we all know its unpredictable but my concern is how long do the bullies live? Ive never used them and if I stop and get some i dont wana run out by having to change them every 15 min or so. You think 6 a piece...

Came out to Hutchinson to spend a few days with lil sis and took her catfishing. Just used cut bait and fished off shore. Fishing was very slow. 2 gar and a small 2lb channel in 4 hours. But it was good brother sister time well spent. Maybe go tomorrow again and hopefully she can land her first...

Well, as we all know the rain was coming down for a few days and it was some nice cold rain, cold front, etc. I thought the river would have been up a lot more than it was actually. It did drop nearly 10 degrees in less than a week but it didn't seem to matter. To tell you the truth I talked myself...