These last two channel catfish were fun - I was catching a bunch of little ones and was using the light rod n reel for one setup. The little ones would float the big slip cork so I was lazy watching cork float without ever going under and then decided to check bait - well this 'little one floating the cord' was 2.75 lbs and on the light weight (crappie) rig it felt like a 5 lb fish and I had to reset the drag while working it to boat - good thing I have a strong heart - it took 5 minutes to get the mean catfish in the boat because I was afraid to force it - plus the 'floating bite' fooled me and I never really set the hook - which made me more nervous / cautious about force it.
The other one was a 2 lb 1 oz but on heavy line so no 'racing heart' / nervous breakdown
All bites - were secret-7 - and I decided to put up the light rod n reel - no more stress - I fished with the 10 lb line - so of course I started catching baby catfish again :(
I went this AM - between 10AM - noon - but I would have fished longer than my 2 hours except my stomach decided I needed to come home (hopefully I can get gut under control and go back> Those that know me - understand what happens when I get nervous stomach but I'm going to try to calm my gut and go again later today
P.S. Found out that bait shop (Hacket's Jack) which is 13 miles from me - now carries the Secret-7 bait (after I had already ordered a case from teamcatfish.com to be FedEx tomorrow i.e. already ordered several months worth of bait plus shipping cost to FedEx :(
Monday, August 31, 2009
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October
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- Forget Football
- BTW: Been lazy
- 1lb 13oz Catfish - 10.5" Crappie - 9" Crappie
- Keeper a day
- Bream - Yellow bass - Crappie
- Same story next day
- Clean one throw one
- 2.75 lb Blue Catfish
- 4 lb Channel Cat - Secret-7
- Lost big catfish - cleaned 6
- Bad Weather
- Almost forgot
- Still slow n babies
- Catch up - only catching little cats
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September
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- Had to clean catfish
- How I use Secret-7 (stinky hands)
- Secret-7 still wins
- Finally got to fish = 2 at 1.75lb each
- 2 rainy days - 5 cats 2 2 2.5 2 5/8 3 lb
- Another slow day - another keeper
- Sunday-Monday - slow = 1 keeper
- Bunch of Cat's - one 2.5 lb keeper
- Misc Stuff
- Bunch of little cats
- 4 Lb Channel Catfish - Secret-7
- Gave 3 lb away
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August
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- Picked up 2 more
- 2 more for neighbor
- Still catching some Channel Catfish Keepers
- More 1.5 to 2 lb channel cats
- Fishing Spot cooled off
- One small catfish
- Lost the big one (cleaned 5 Channels)
- Sunday is day of rest
- 1.5 and 2.5 Channel using Magic Bait + Garlic
- Nice Size Channels for light rod n reel
- Channel Cats 1 lb 9oz n 2 lb 10oz on Danny King
- 1.0 lb ; 1 lb 15oz and 3 lb 1oz Channel Catfish
- Lost a big one
- Channel Catfish on Secret-7 bait
- More worms n fish
- More worms
- Catawba Worms (second crop)
- Catfish moved
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- Lake Conway Arkansas fisherman - cleans catfish only when he has too - most of my youtube.com/arkieprince video are catfish video
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