This was a blast

[garyg]

took 20 minutes to finally get this guy landed on 12 lb. braid

[Spoonminnow]

Know the feeling - congrats. What lure did you catch it on?

I caught this one on a hand pour cone-tail grub and 12 lb test braid with a 6lb test fluorocarbon leader.




This 5 lb cat was caught on a 3.5" Slider worm:




This one was taken on a Joker grub:

[skeetbum]

That's a big Catfish!! Looks like he just wanted some Chicken.

[garyg]

Caught him on that lil ole 1/8 oz with a tube tail

[scrat]

Wow! Nice catfish for sure.

[Crestliner08]

Excellent!

[FIN]

Congratulations. That's a whopper

[mcdye]

Bet that was fun time.

[BG12]

Nice!!! What did it weigh?

My son Ryno and I were bass fishing last summer. An impromptu father son tournament as he had issued a challenge of taking the old man to the woodshed. About an hour in he surrendered and laid down his weapon. Feeling a little bad, but wanting to keep him from being a quitter I told him to not give up, all he needed was two 8 pounders to be back in it. He picked the Lews combo back up I had bought him for his 16th birthday and pitched a shakey head with a junebug 10x trick worm up against the bank. started bringing it out to deeper water and then i felt him load up and set the hook. about 4 minutes and 30 or 40 yards down the levee later I netted a tail hooked, (still don't know how) 17lb catfish! He was pumped and learned a great lesson about not giving up! Pic doesn't really do it justice but for reference Ryno is 6'1" 280lbs...

[sinkermaker]

Nice cats