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anyone catching any just wondering

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everytime i go i catch them. i cheat a little though. i take a trebble hook and put a big fat night crawler on it, catch some big bluegill that was too.

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tried makeing some stink bait to day might go see if it works later tonite i got ahold of some rotten cheese so rotten it was turning into liquid. mixed with garlic and flour to thicken up. man that stuff is ripe. maybe it will work

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My hunting buddy caught this one about two weeks ago or so. We eat him tonight at his fish fry. Good eating!

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been catching quite a few just using red wigglers ,15 to 20 averaging 3 to 5 pounds,,,,,,and a few mixed in up to 8 lbs.... use surf rods with a 3 oz weight so i can cast out to the deep water at Leesylvania State Park ,Va...

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My hunting buddy caught this one about two weeks ago or so. We eat him tonight at his fish fry. Good eating!

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If there's a Catalpa tree anywhere near you, get you some Catalpa worms. Them or Danny Kings punch bait are about as close to a sure bet for summertime channels as you can get...

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thats cat fish hunter from grumpy old men! haha. dont know what id do if i caught one that big

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My hunting buddy caught this one about two weeks ago or so. We eat him tonight at his fish fry. Good eating!

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My cats are channels and they do not grow as big as flatheads, but I catch a lot of nice channels. These videos just show a few of the many I have caught this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Su...mp;feature=plcp


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYiB...t7LMTquBH0CvBwg


As you can see, I fish fore more than just catfish.

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them were some nice fish we getting some rain today maybe it will cool things off a lil

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what are you guys catching your big cats on , havent got a chance to get out and catfish yet took kids bluegill fishing and caught several small ones on red worms . for small catfish i always liked using shinners or shrimp and night crawler combo , for the big daddies i like bluegill about size of your hand , goldfish , or a 5 to 8 inch creek chub , or a creek sucker . i also really like shark fishing at the beach reminds me alot of catfishing , we go out and catch anything we can during the day and hit the pier at night and cut up all our days catch in big chunks and put on a 200lb mustad steel liter with 80 lb spider wire mono line , now thats fun ! we can usually get some 4 and 5 footers in but sometimes we get broke off and sometimes we get stuff on we cant handle and get broke off right away !!!

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We almost always use perch or bluegill the bigger the better on big fish. If you want to catch alot of channal cats use perch 3 to 4 in long and you will catch more numbers and ocassionaly a big one. Good rule of thumb flatheads are a predator fish and almost always only hit on live bait.

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i have always heard that bullheads/mudcats were the best for flatheaden but never tried them but we also use perch,bluegill,goldfish,and carp. we like all these baits about as big as your hand or bigger a flathead has such a wide mouth that a 2lb has no problem eating a bait that big and not to mention when useing big baits like that you know its going to be a nice fish and channel will hardly hit baits that large

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ive caught small channels and some bigger blue cats on just plain cut bait or cut blue gill heads , i buy the packs of dead shad at walmart sometimes and use em on a double 2 hook rig on bottom like in a pond if iam bottom fishing they work pretty good on 5 lb and smaller channels , but i like using a slip catfish float with live bait , or river fishing on bottom with live bait for big boys

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a guy caught a 41 pound channel a week ago were i go fishing on worms.....

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We have done good with bullheads too

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Are you sure the 41# channel was not actually a blue cat? That would be a record channel. Around here when someone catches a big blue colored channel, they call it a blue cat. And, folks often call blue cats channels. They look very similar but there is a difference.

I have used goldfish to catch flatheads. I like ground leaches for channel cats. I often get out my seine and seine small creeks in the area I am going to fish. Whatever I catch in the seine is what I use for bait. That will be what they are feeding on naturally.

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yeah i think the record is like 38 lbs for a channel and around here you get one that is 10lb thats a big channel

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