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Conference wahoo::fishing

Title:Fishing Notes- Archived
Notice:See note 555.1 for a keyword directory of this conference
Moderator:DONMAC::MACINTYRE
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Sep 20 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1660
Total number of notes:20970

1557.0. "LARGE Catfish" by RANGER::MACINTYRE (Terminal Angler) Mon Mar 11 1991 13:08

    This topic is for the larger species of catfish, Blue, Channel,
    Flathead, etc..
    
    There is another topic in here that talks about catfish, but for the
    most part it covers the typical (small) local catfish.
    
    This note is for the big boys - the 50+ pounders that are found in
    other parts of the country.
    
    We're going to set aside some time for these monsters at Santee-Cooper
    SC in a couple weeks, and would appreciate any first hand experience
    on bait, tackle, etc..
    
    -donmac
    
    ps: largest cats at santee-cooper
    ---------------------------------
    Blue: 	86.4lbs
    Channel:	58.0lbs
    Flathead:	63.0lbs
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1557.1WAHOO::LEVESQUETurning CirclesMon Mar 11 1991 13:126
 2nd hand info-

 Catch some small sunfish, and use them for bait (slip sinker rig.) Be prepared
to wait. Use stout tackle.

 The Doctah
1557.2109lb Blue Cat at SanteeRANGER::MACINTYRETerminal AnglerTue Mar 19 1991 12:037
    Last night I was talking with Santee guide Jack Harrison (the guy bass 
    fishing with Roland on his Santee show a couple weeks ago, Harbormaster
    and I have him booked for this Friday, our first day at Santee) and he 
    mentioned that a couple of days ago the world record Blue catfish was 
    broken at Santee, with a 109 pounder weighed in! 
    
    -donmac
1557.3There's about 30 or so varieties of Cat...DELNI::JMCDONOUGHFri Mar 22 1991 12:1411
      I've also seen what we used to call "Mud-cats" taken out of the
    Mississippi River in Minnesota that went WELL over 100 pounds. There
    was a photo in the Minneapolis paper when I was a teen ager...a guy had
    a catfish with a rope attachet to it's head...the head was resting on
    the guy's shoulder, and the tail of the fish was dregging on the
    ground...
    
      Oh, yeah...the man was 5'10"......
    
    John Mcdonough
1557.4I'll second that last remark.SHRFAC::MASSICOTTEThu Apr 04 1991 19:5922
    
    Funny, we were just talking about catfish over morning coffee
    yesterday.  One of electricians here at SHR comes from southern
    Indiana and got to talking about the big ones, "the mudcats".
    
    Well, when I was in school for the U.S.of Navy at GLakes in '58
    one of my cube mates was always talking about them and how they
    used to reach over the banks into holes and pull them out, and of
    course being from New England and never hearing of these things
    I flat out told him his eyes were brown 'cause he was fulla sh**!!
    
    He was a few weeks ahead of me at school and when he got home he
    sent me a photo of himself and his dad standing aside thier '56
    ford crown victoria with 4 of these cats on the hood. Heads and
    tails hanging over the fenders.  I kept it long enough to bring
    it home and show the troops around here.  Wish I still had it.
    
    Anyway, maybe one of you guys (ladies included) just might know
    him.  David Pickle from Love, Miss.  Guess he showed me just who
    was fulla crapolla!!
    
    Fred