Species Spin-Off Post

From FishMongers post (about what you fish for). I was just curious about how many of you all will go out specifically to target catfish?

I do :wink: , but not opposed to going early to catch some crappie or 'gills, even if they're just for live-bait.

ST

I go for cats and I also go for bass,crappie,bluegill,and bream.

When down in Texas with my in-laws we will go to the Guadalupe River and target catfish occasionally. Around here they are an incidental catch for me.

about once a month

I'm in the beginning stage of fishing for them, so I've still got a bit to go as far as learning to locate them. My largest to date is a 15 lb channel, but want to more than double the weight.

I'm not sure why I seem to have lost interest in bass fishing? Maybe I'll give it a whirl again sometime (well, I'm sure I will). Sometimes it's nice to have a lake nearly all to yourself at night. Catfish are fighters, that's for sure :wink:

ST

I caught one on a spinnerbait once in the sudbury River.

I go strictly for bass . Maybe that's why my catch ratio sux, lol :roll:

Jim, was it a channel by chance?

WW-lol, you don't have to fish strictly for bass to have that ratio #-o

ST

I catfish and if you do a search through my older posts and fishing reports you will find photos of several "senko" channel cats. jim made a bunch of senko type baits and his purple was a channel cat favorite.

i now target Flatheads just becuase they get so much bigger - but the Channel is still my favorite

Captain Ahab said:

I catfish and if you do a search through my older posts and fishing reports

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lol....yeah, right.....all 3200 of them :shock: :wink:

ST

I fish for anything that bites. The boat I just purchased will be used mainly as a catfishing machine with the occasional crappie/bass/sandie being chased. But I bought the boat for my dad and he fishs for catfish and nothing else unless the cats aren't biting and then we whip out the Wheaties and make up a few dough balls to see if we can at least catch a carp.

I have a 10' Pelican Bass Raider that I use to pond hop and strip pit fish for bass, and it has seen big water a time or two and caught a few catfish out of it also.

Started on catts, found fake bait and Bass-haven't went back.

I mostly just stick to bass these days, however I catch plenty while bass fishing, senkos, spinnerbaits, rat-l-traps, swimbaits, they'll bite just about anything.