Road trip for Catfish

[cspot]

Well the wife and I went over to Seneca Lake in Ohio since they have some blue cats over there. We had a pretty good day. Caught 6 in about 6 hrs. The one channel cat I caught was a little over 10 lb and she had a blue cat that was about 6 lb.



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[timberdoodle]

did a road trip for catfish my self....

Last week I hiked sgl 37 Park Hill Rd, saw 4 deer and 1 coyote... stopped at Florida Fryed chicken in Tioga and had catfish and sweet potato casserole, not quite as big as yours,  but delicious none the less.

[Loggy]

Nice catch!! Some fine eating there for sure if your a cat connoisseur!!

[cspot]

Apr 10, 2021 20:08:30 GMT -5 Loggy said:

Nice catch!! Some fine eating there for sure if your a cat connoisseur!!

Yep since that lake is clean we had a nice catfish dinner for the family.

Made the trip again yesterday and the wife and I caught 13 with a couple decent ones and the others were small. We returned them all unharmed to the lake though.

[Loggy]

What rigs/bait were you using?

[cspot]

Apr 13, 2021 5:46:36 GMT -5 Loggy said:

What rigs/bait were you using?

We were using a double hook rig with cut skipjack on one hook and chicken on the other. Had a peg float on in between the hooks with a couple foot leader attached to a 3 way swivel. On the drop leg of the swivel I was using a Dragging sinker (larry muse style). This keeps the bait a couple of feet off the bottom when dragging and helps prevent snags. We were dragging 2 directly behind the boat and then dragging the other two off of planer boards. Tried to keep our speed at about 0.5 MPH either using the trolling motor or a drift sock with the wind.

[Loggy]

Interesting read from MD DNR on the blue catfish:


MD DNR Blue Cat Report

[cspot]

Apr 13, 2021 19:36:49 GMT -5 Loggy said:

Interesting read from MD DNR on the blue catfish:


MD DNR Blue Cat Report

The Potomac is one of the better places to catch Blues from what I hear. The lake we are fishing at started stocking them about 4 years ago and they are doing well. Still will need some time to get to those whopper sizes. Over hear they were native to the Ohio River basin, but pollution had wiped them out..