YoYo setup on pier yields - 6 lb Channel Catfish

(Video theme: shows yo-yo setup for my fishing pier)
A rain shower moved thru yesterday and cooled things off - so I 'guessed' that it might get the fish to moving in the shallow water. Well I went bream fishing (late) and got about 10 for bait + a couple keepers - but I need 22 to bait the trotline so I got lazy and just set up the 5 yo-yo's and 3 noodles on my fishing pier (I vary amount I use) This heat makes me lazier every day :)

I baited 2 yo-yo's with magic bait - and three with bream - figured I'd re-bait a couple time during night after turtles got full. But when I checked a couple times the turtles were not very hungry - so when I woke up a couple times in middle of night - I didn't bother to go check yo-yo's (lazy as usual)


This morning when I went out to check I saw that something was tangled up in one of the yo-yo's and one noodle - I watched - expecting it to be a turtle - but they usually swim straight out - in a straight line - so I was happy when I saw the lines going around and really running the line off the yo-yo

I had to get in the boat to get this nice channel catfish off the yo-yo - it was running too much and it was tangled in noodle line. I knew my net handle was too short to get the fish from the fishing pier.

AnyWho - I got the fish and he's now vacuum sealed / packed in the freezer

The video shows some of my yo-yo setups - I was using the one with the 5' long pole - instead of the short poles. And the other yo-yo's were just hanging off the side on a string i.e. I have different methods for putting out yo-yo's - and I took the easy route on 4 of them e.g. hung them off side of pier. Then of course the yo-yo on the pole got the catfish

I had really big shad on the noodles - that may have kept the turtles busy and had magic bait on 2 of the yo-yo's

Here is video showing yo-yo setups: