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

Any one ever get any big cats out of there?
I catch small ones trolling for eyes but no big ones.

last year my daughter got a 30in 10pounder

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.

my biggest has been 30 inches also, but a lot over 24 inches too.

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.

Anything over 2 ft is a decent cat to me.

How big do Channel cats get ??

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.

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.

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.