Today started slowly and ended with a whopper

I made the mistake of trying to target the shallower fish in the shallower contours pulling crankbaits and got no bites. It was close to lunch, so I moved deeper to get a small keeper catfish while the kids caught a keeper crappie each. And then, my daughter thought she had a hangup (which is logical because I was trolling 1.5 mph and the line was spooling out); after fighting it a bit and got movement like dead weight, I finally realized what was on the other end….an 8lb flathead catfish.

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She’s happy and a pretty smile. Fun times, good memories.

Great post thanks for sharing

I wish my wife would eat catfish, that is a fine eater there. I throw all the catfish I catch back.

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Originally Posted by Rojo

I wish my wife would eat catfish, that is a fine eater there. I throw all the catfish I catch back.

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As long as I fillet them and remove the skin, my wife is fine eating catfish. When she realized that I can clean them this way, she actually asked me to start keeping some within reason (ok to throw back small ones).

While I know that this is a crappie forum, I find it interesting what I (or the kids) can catch while fishing for crappie using crappie tackle.

I catch some Monster catfish while single pole fishing. I don't carry monster Ice Chests so no way to keep them.