Blue Cat fishing

Any of you guys like to bluecat fish? We went over spring break and put out 16 jugs. Didn't do good at all for several days. We changed places two days before the snow storm. No lie, I have never seen anything like it in my life. We had three hooks on a jug, and all 16 had at least one blue over 15 lb. The new reg is one per person with 2 in possession over 30". We turned back the biggest ones. We turned back 1-38 lb, 1-32 lb, 4-26 lb, and 8-20 lb fish for a grand total of 334# turned back and we ran them once a day for two days(had 10 jugs the second day) and pulled them. We could only run the jugs in groups of five because the livewell on the boat would be full. I was tired of cleaning fish. I'll try to get a pic or two from my friends wife. We cleaned fish one night from 7:30 til 12:30. The friends and relatives showed up AFTER the cleaning was done.

Thanks for the report! Sounds like ya'll had a great time.

I love fishing for cats. I'm way better at it than Crappie, but then again, I've been doing it a lot longer! I prefer jug lines and rod and reel fishing myself, but I've been known to set a few trotlines in my day ;)

Nice report. Glad to here the big blues are biting. I enjoy drift fishing for catfish with rod and reel, but have been known to jug fish also.

Where were you fishing? Great story! Thanks.

Thanks for the good report on catfish. I like to catfish when not crappie fishing. Would like to see some pictures!

Aserioushunter - There can be only one place that you could have been fishing to do that well. I look forward to see if I am not right. I fished with 5 other friends in early March 3 years ago and we filleted over 700 pounds of cats in 1 day by 2:30 PM on jugs.

If you guessed Kaw you are right. We are going to go back to the fall bite to let more of them spawn. We let the biggest ones that weren't injured go. I heard the weekend before they were writing $400 tickets for too many over the 30" length. We have fished up there quite alot and never caught them like this. We have yet to catch a flathead though, and only caught 1 channel.

That's a very impressive catch of big cats. I personally think that Arkansas river lakes seem to produce very good catfishing.

Aserioushunter - Coon?:)

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Aserioushunter - Coon?:)

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You caught me off guard. At first glance I thought you must have talked to a close friend of mine due to an inside joke involving a coon. Note: If you go to Kaw lock up or put LOTS of weight on all things with food or bait the coons are ingenious up there. We knew this so we took our minnow bucket with the areator and covered the bucket with the cover to the propane tank and lodged it under the trailer slide. Middle of the night my buddy heard a noise and looked out to a coon doing a clean and jerk on the cover and run him off. He apparently came back and crawled under the cover and fished them out that way. That wasn't the worst. I had a 96 qt ice chest with 2 locking handles with deer, pork butt, and a ham for the smoker. They opened the handles and carried out the deer and the pork butt and closed back the lid so they could come back for the ham. No smoker meat that trip and I got a score to settle. We always have something happen when we are camping to laugh about later, or blackmail.:D

Back on subject, yes we were out of Coon Creek but it is silted in and sometimes you can't get out of there.

Aserioushunter- Introduce the coons to Ruger. It will take their breath away.
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Originally Posted by aserioushunter

Any of you guys like to bluecat fish? We went over spring break and put out 16 jugs. Didn't do good at all for several days. We changed places two days before the snow storm. No lie, I have never seen anything like it in my life. We had three hooks on a jug, and all 16 had at least one blue over 15 lb. The new reg is one per person with 2 in possession over 30". We turned back the biggest ones. We turned back 1-38 lb, 1-32 lb, 4-26 lb, and 8-20 lb fish for a grand total of 334# turned back and we ran them once a day for two days(had 10 jugs the second day) and pulled them. We could only run the jugs in groups of five because the livewell on the boat would be full. I was tired of cleaning fish. I'll try to get a pic or two from my friends wife. We cleaned fish one night from 7:30 til 12:30. The friends and relatives showed up AFTER the cleaning was done.

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Great bunch of fish 4 u guys!
Thanks 4 sharing. i like mixing my fishing up2. i havnt seen much shad, it's been so scattered here. sounds like u found some, but where they? (deepth,ect.) or did u use somthing else. perhaps a secret formula(haha).

Im in the middle part of the lake and sure would like so advise on making a run like ur.

thx and happy fishing
-stace

They were running in about 16' depth, 5' off the bottom. We used cut shad and had a real hard time getting them. Try the farthest ends of coves for the shad.

Well, my son talked me into going out the weekend of the 4th of July and trying our luck in our secret spot on the Verdigris river. WOW!!! The absolute biggest blues I have ever seen! We caught two that were around 70 pounds! Had our 150 pound test dropline snapped, and also had a 2/0 stainless steel hook straightened out! If someone is wanting to catch some big blues, the Verdigris river is holding some good ones right now!!!