Not your common catch...

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norm289
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2010/07/19 18:35:12 (permalink)

Not your common catch...

Me and a bud decided to go to a local stream for some warmwater action. Water was pretty dirty so I threw big streamers. Varying between just swinging them and random strip retrieves. We caught the usual smallmouth and some walleyes. After a long stretch of no action(at least for me), I got a massive hit. The way it fought, I thought I had hooked into a big walleye or a nice smallmouth. After a couple minutes I brought the fish to hand and this was it...



Catfish on the fly!

"If I'm not going to catch anything, then I'd rather not catch anything on flies." Bob Lawless

"Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly." John Gierach
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    Mountian Man
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/19 18:51:02 (permalink)
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/20 08:40:58 (permalink)
    good one norm. never know about catfish. and many of them catfish junkies use stink bait! lol!!
    post edited by doubletaper - 2010/07/20 08:41:41

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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/20 09:19:51 (permalink)
    What norm doesn't add is that he was swinging a big yellow leech pattern...tipped with a live one.
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/20 20:24:30 (permalink)
    Thanks DT. Used to catch them in my two local rivers on minnows, so I always thought it would be possible for one to smack a big streamer. Just never thought it would happen to me lol.

    Cold, if you are gonna tell the story, you better get it right No leeches were used. Smeared the fly with powerbait, yellow with the glitter in it

    "If I'm not going to catch anything, then I'd rather not catch anything on flies." Bob Lawless

    "Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly." John Gierach
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/21 23:48:24 (permalink)
    All right!  So what's the real story?  Either way, that is a nice catch.

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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/22 08:33:44 (permalink)
    be a man go in the water and noodle for them there cat feesh.lol

    I didn't say these are the ten suggestions
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/07/22 12:49:29 (permalink)
    Wow,
     
    "Catfish On The Fly"
    That's something I've never done. Or heard of.  
    Norm, here's your opportunity to research flies and tactics and write an article for the fly rags..
    There are either books, chapters and articles on almost every species of inland fish.
    You can be the first to do up catfish.
    Pretty cool, dude. 
     
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/08/15 20:18:55 (permalink)
    We have had luck catching Cats using greenweenies and Clousers tied with red fox tails drug on the bottom.
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/08/26 17:28:39 (permalink)
    it just goes to show you never know what youll catch, looks like a decnt size cat to, probly an awesome fight
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/08/31 11:06:47 (permalink)
    Cool, new species on the fly: spin off into new thread:
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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/08/31 11:14:58 (permalink)
    Very unique catch norm. That's one to cross off your list.

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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/08/31 18:43:55 (permalink)
    Cool guy. Few years back I was on an early season steelie hunt. Got a 26" channel on a size 12 oregon cheese egg.

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    RE: Not your common catch... 2010/09/03 21:46:00 (permalink)
    i never caught a cat on a fly. now that i think about it why not?  fi've caught plenty of flat heads on live blue gills.  anyone have a blue gill pattern ?
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