Catfishin' Best of the Year

Go to your Photobucket picture and copy the IMG code, when back here click the add image box (last box on the right above your post entry) and paste the img code you copied from Photo bucket.
 
Pretty easy , good luck !!
 
If that does not work, email me your pic usabrian126@yahoo.com
 
 
 

hey, thanks for the help brian. when i copied the the IMG thing then pasted it, i had to erase the [img] at the beginning and end. Anyway.
I'm from the Capital District, all these pics are from down in waterford.
This year was the first year i ever fished for catfish. And me and one of my friends basically cracked out on it. It took me until october 18th, but i finally got my first ten pounder.


While i was getting pics of this one and releasing it, my other pole went off. My second 10 pounder.


And just recently, november 18th (25 degrees and snow showers) i got a 10 1/2 lb 31 inch Channel Cat.


Here's some of my friends big fish. 10 lbs. November 16th.


An 11 pounder 9-2-08


Slightly under 10 lbs. 30 inches October 7th.


9lbs. 11-18


a double header Mine (left 5 lbs) his (right) 7 1/2 lbs.


and finally a Cool litlle Mud Puppy



i Hate to think the season is over, been out a couple times in the last week and got skunked.

Yeah, when you hook into a big cat on a bass pole your definately in for a fight.
As for the cold weather, i've caught more big ones since it's gotten cold out. they are in shallow water this time of year. they seem to be moving around a lot though, one week we catch one after another and the next barely anything (except for mud puppies)

WTG man, nice kitty's ... a buddy of mine targets them all the time up that way from boat at night time. There are some big ones in there.
 
 

hey thanks brian, i'd love to target them in a boat some day, i'm definately limited when shore fishing.
i definately believe there are huge ones out there, i use a snelled striped bass leader with a big circle hook (premade in the saltwater section in dicks) and i hooked into a fish that felt like a log. it took off and snapped my leader like dental floss.
state record is 32 lbs. so i have some work to do!!

and all my cats were released to go out and make more big kitties.

welcome chuck. the only reason your fish look that big is my expert photographic skills. it's a skill.

i think we've used just about anything you can think of this year. we've used chunks of fish (sunfish),nightcrawlers (though you tend to get picked apart by silver perch), we've used live minnows from a bait shop, we've caught them on live minnows but it seems the dead minnows work better. once they have died just cut a few slices in them so they have a better blood trail for the cats to find. we also tried live crayfish, that works alright. with the crayfish you also have the chance of pulling in a smallmouth or a nice sheepshead. the sheepshead tend to bite the heads off the crayfish and leave the rest behind. i got 2 nice sheepshead this year 6 lb. and 5 lb. we've used salmon fillets from price chopper and that works really well because they have good tough skin to stay on the hook.
and we started the year off using herring chunks. we got a bunch from conroys in watervliet, he had fresh ones that hadn't been frozen yet. we got tons of cats with them.
 out of all the stuff we've tried i recommend chucks of dead fish, herring or sunfish. whatever is available.

Very nice channel ther pike!  you guys keep any the smaller ones ? heard they make a good fish fry?

I've been spending too much time over on 'The Shanty' with a few of you other dudes and needed to check in...

Pike- sweet fish, man!!!

Looks like we've got another Albany guy to party with!  You should come over this winter and hit the ice with us.  I live just across the Hudson near Wynantskill.  Some of us tend to hang out on occassion and chase fish now and then.  And sometimes we drink beer and stuff too.

Shoot- I might just skip Stripers all together and hammer Cats this Spring!  Oh wait- Brian said he's going to show me whats up with those Stripers, so nevermind

good for you pike, be careful with the ice, nj , where near nev did you or did you like for ice ? i only fished a handful of public lakes worth bothering..  white lk  and sebego ..we did so so ..nothing much.. that toronto blows.. we tried that and nothing.  tried that swinging bridge but that too is nothing to get excited about ..i i tried big pond little pond wanetia .. too small for such i drive imo  you have any suggestions? what kind of wine you like?