toad01
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pymie channel cats
took the family fishing on pymie this weekend we caught at least 50 small channel cats a few perch and 3 walleye
my question is the lake going to get over populated with these fish they are a game fish and eat the same as walleye
just looking for some opinions
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 18:49:12
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Any one ever get any big cats out of there?
I catch small ones trolling for eyes but no big ones.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 18:51:32
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last year my daughter got a 30in 10pounder
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 18:54:14
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i actually caught a nice size cat a couple of weeks ago, and it had a 8 inch walleye in it's belly. so, not only are they going to compete for food, the walleye may suffer in other ways too.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 19:06:40
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my biggest has been 30 inches also, but a lot over 24 inches too.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 20:54:20
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ORIGINAL: bingsbaits
Any one ever get any big cats out of there?
I catch small ones trolling for eyes but no big ones.
Not sure what you mean by "big cats" bings but over the last couple years it seems that catching ones in the 24"+ range hasn't been hard to do. I've only caught them fishing from shore on the causeway though.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/11 22:12:06
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Anything over 2 ft is a decent cat to me.
How big do Channel cats get ??
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/12 08:31:18
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ORIGINAL: bingsbaits
Anything over 2 ft is a decent cat to me.
How big do Channel cats get ??
State record is over 35 pounds with the biggest caught in 2010 was nearly 20 pounds....and to answer the question properly with my opinion I needed to know what your definition of a "big cat" was. I'd agree with you anything over 2 ft is decent.
post edited by TastyTrout - 2011/07/12 08:32:35
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/12 08:57:55
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bings, the red river in northern minnesota and into canada regularly produces channel cats of 30 pounds or more. a 10 pounder here is considered a big fish.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/12 10:48:44
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30" /10# is decent
35ish /20# is the Big trophy (perhaps a once in a life fish, unless you know what your doing)
a 23-25" cat (5#), while a pretty nice fight is a pretty ordinary-sized cat.
so, I don't know. while Big waterways hold more big cats, I imagine that there are lots of places (including pymy) that hold the occasional 20# cat. I've personally seen cats that approach this size on an ordinary night out of Erie.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/12 18:23:57
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LA has gotten me two 30 inchers this week. The second broke 20 lb braid when I tried to lift it up off the rocks. I also caught a white cat I think Hopefully I can post the pic [image][/image]  [image][/image]  [image][/image] 
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/14 14:03:22
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I caught a 28 inch on Friday night. I don't like catching those things.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/14 14:30:21
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No all these were caught on alewifes. Even the carp. The white cat was caught on a shiner
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/14 14:32:19
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No all these were caught on alewifes. Even the carp. The white cat was caught on a crawler before alewifes were in and I had nothing better to do
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/19 17:07:41
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Where did you get the alewives from?
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/20 00:40:41
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/21 02:19:48
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ORIGINAL: toad01
took the family fishing on pymie this weekend we caught at least 50 small channel cats a few perch and 3 walleye
my question is the lake going to get over populated with these fish they are a game fish and eat the same as walleye
just looking for some opinions
i do not think they are overpopulated. we usually get nice ones while fishing for carp. the boys caught 8 yesturday all were over 15 inches,brought these ones home.  
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/21 03:51:15
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nice richard bake it up invite me over;)
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/29 21:01:07
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My son a couple friends and I are going tomorrow to try to fly fish for some cats in Pymatuming, notsure how that will go but we are going to give it a try.
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/30 16:11:40
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i fryed em. the big one was strong,the rest were delicious
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/30 18:48:53
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It seems like if you fish for the Big ones you can get them! The biggest I've caught were always at night. One time I caught 2 monsters on turtle lines. Haven't fished for cats (purposely) in a few years up Pymy. Still if you can find em between 15-20 inches, you'd get some nice fillets!
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/31 08:09:24
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use half worm shoudn't have any trouble catching catfish the bigger ones bite better late in the day
in my opinion pymie isn't over populated w/ cats yet but i feel strongly that in few years it just may i fished that lake for the past 20 yrs just like the perch pop grew the cats will to
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/07/31 21:17:26
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Lake Arthur is ridiculous for cats. It was hard to sit down last week or light up a square
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/13 10:51:29
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Hit Pymy yesterday and between two of us must have caught 15 before moving away from those worm gulpers.
Biggest maybe 17". Caught a real variaty , perch,crappie,wallies,cats,gills. All total...50+
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/15 14:37:21
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square? LoL Nice haul Mika
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/16 11:08:04
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can someone please tell me how the heck to catch an eye this time of year?? I fished for 4 days last week and caught everything in that darn lake except an eye! Probably about 50 cats or so in that 4 day stretch too. I caught cats on jigs, trolling bouncers, and even on a reef runner! Lots of big gills deep too.. but NO eyes
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/16 16:14:19
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i dont fish eyes at pymie this time of year because of work
but they tell me they can be caught in deeper water on south end at nite or early morn trolling lead core so i been told
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/16 16:26:11
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keep trying? lol ive seen some caught from shore at espyville. i had a nice one hit right on the rocks in front of me. suprised the heck out of me
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/16 22:34:14
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wade if you would have fished for as long(countless tactics too) as we did you wouldnt have wanted to keep trying either lol 
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RE: pymie channel cats
2011/08/16 22:42:47
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hehe ... you might be suprised how those cats taste baked up :) might forget you ever wanted to catch walleye ino how it is tho if it aint a walleye its a disapointment lol i get kinda sad when i see a 5 pound bass or something anymore i gotta remember that its still a decent fish
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