CAMELJ
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BLUE CATS
I'M GOING TO SOMERSET LAKE TONIGHT, THEY ARE CATCHING SOME REALLY NICE CHANNEL CATS AND BLUE CATS. NEVER CAUGHT OR FISHED FOR BLUES. ANY TIPS ON FISHING FOR THEM AND WHAT IS A GOOD BAIT FOR THEM? 
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Mountian Man
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 12:32:19
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Umm hate to burst your bubble but there are no blue cats in PA except in a few paylakes...Those are all channels in Somerset along with bullheads....And a big channel can be mistaken as a blue cat... Leave the livers and use creek chubs and cut bait from any oily/bloody fish....
post edited by Mountian Man - 2009/08/08 12:38:24
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Mountian Man
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 12:40:35
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Shrimp was working well in the spring but it had to have the head and guts or it wasn't worth sh*t.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 13:02:36
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WETHER THEY ARE BLUES OR NOT THEYARE CATCHING BIG ONES. THE GUYS WE WERE TALKING TO SAID THEY KEEP NOTHING UNDER 24 INCHES AND THEY ALWAY LEAVE WITH A PILE OF THEM.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 14:54:16
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If memory serves me right , a few clubs used to stock Blues in the Yough river also. in the West Newton area & downstream. Been a few years since I have been there though. sam
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Mountian Man
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 15:15:48
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There's a place in Maryland a few miles south of the Yough, a bunch of gravel pits where an older gent gets 5lb and bigger blue cats stocked...Charges $5 to fish and you can keep 10 catfish no matter the size...
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/08 17:38:30
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Got a nice blue at Shenango a couple years ago on a tube jig. Had I realized how rare they are I would've took a pic. Thinking I may not of had my camera with me ? 
Eat what you catch,troll for cows.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/09 09:02:13
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like mt man said, there are no blues in pa. now with that said doesn't mean you can't catch one once in a blue moon. cause they are in md and wv, and the mon does come up from md and the yough. so it's not impossable, but more than not if you think it's a blue, it's not just a channel. and leave the liver at the store, and go catch some bait like a real cat man!
your "game fish" is my bait.....got flathead!!
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/09 11:31:20
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caught one a few years ago darker blue color than bigger channel cat i thought it was a blue and yes i got it on liver i take blugills, chubs, and liver when i go never know what they want besides liver scents the water my brother uses worms gets alot but never any size
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/09 14:02:37
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big channels are 8# to 15#. big blues are 20# to 60#.
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SwimFishieSwim
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/10 10:20:45
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Mountian Man, What is the name of the place in Maryland you are tlaking about? I would be interested in going... Thanks
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/10 12:25:57
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Was not a channel, not really to close in comparison. A thread from last year I believe had some other info on them and where they were found. Regardless, was a ball on a tube jig !! Good fishing !
Eat what you catch,troll for cows.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/10 15:09:07
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ORIGINAL: SwimFishieSwim
Mountian Man,
What is the name of the place in Maryland you are tlaking about? I would be interested in going...
Thanks
Can't think of it off the top of my head, I'll ask my uncle what the name was with directions if I see him this week and I'll pm ya with the info... It's only $5 to fish sometimes free if the old guy doesn't walk around to collect the money and you can catch alot of nice cats.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/11 13:10:51
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Caught a 26.55 lb blue at seghi's on Friday on trout guts.
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/20 10:13:40
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Could be blues in Pennsylvania. I have a palm tree in my front yard, near Turtle Creek, that survived the winter.
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Travis46
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/08/23 11:25:34
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got a nice 45lb blue at paradise a couple years ago. quite a fight on a medium action rod and 8lb line. Got a pic
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RE: BLUE CATS
2009/09/13 21:40:11
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I'm suprised that no one has ever hooked a blue in the Ohio River, They catch them there not far down stream. I know that they catch the in Ohio and Kentucky.
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