Finally Got To Fish! Pics

Finally got to get back home and do a little fishin' this morning for a few hours. Since my boat needs a battery and a little work NIMROD took me out in his boat.
We planned on jiggin' some of his stakebeds but as soon as he went to steer his trolling motor the cable snapped! Luckily, he had brought along his catfish equipment, some feed and some catalpa worms. We anchored over one of his baiting spots and although they just weren't "eatin' a hook off " we managed to catch 18 decent cats.
Once again, I'm sorry that we couldn't get the Fish "n" Eat together but due to the price of fuel and the amount of traveling that most would have to do I really want to have the time to put on a good outing including several baited areas and several new condos.
Here's some pics from this morning...

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NIMROD with a nice one

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Here Kitty, Kitty!
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Slabbandit gets in the action!
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A couple of the big ones!
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Awesome post guys.

That bait sure looked thin, not that I have a clue about baiting a hole. I'm sure you have already posted the recipie but if not please do so. I would like to bait a hole on Ouachita to take a bunch of kids in the 7 to 10 year old range up to fish.

Also slab when you get back to work next week leave your camera with Nimrod. Sure would be nice to see some of his catches when I'm stuck working just like you.

Some nice fish Slabbandit and Nimrod, glad y'all got to get out and catch some.

Hey Gooch, This is actually cottonseed meal and chopped corn soured in a bucket of water for a few days. And I do mean " soured "!!
Actually in this pic he was probably just rinsing the rest out. It's not that thin.
Probably one of the best things and easist to use is " 10 percent " sweetfeed horse and cattle feed.
Here are a few more tips that NIMROD gave on another website about how to bait for cats...

Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: Baiting Catfish Holes

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We love to catch Catfish when the Crappie fishing drops off. Here at Nimrod and other area lakes baiting holes is becoming popular. The easiest is to use ''sweet 10'' horse feed. Wheat covered with water and allowed to sour works great but stinks. Some use canned dog food even.
Pick a spot known to hold Cats such as stumps on an old river channel. Start by going out the day before and dumping a sack of sweet feed over them. Then fish the next day or so with your favorite bait and little or no weight on your line. These fish feed on the chum till it's running out their mouths so anything not just right is spit out. When they feel a heavy lead on your line they let go very often. I use Catalpa Worms on a 16.5' Black Widow Pole with just a line and 1/0 or smaller hook. When we set out 6 poles at times the bite is so fast you cannot keep them all set out.
We caught 3 limits by 8.30 Friday morning over one stump and last year one day it produced 57 cats for us alone. You bait these holes every few days and the cats will come by the droves. Once in a week we caught over 500 lbs!
When you go out to fish always take a sack of feed. It really gets the fish going and makes them bite to throw hand fulls of feed out around the boat . Chum every 1/2 hour or when the bite slows and the more days a hole is baited the better it gets.
Good luck and remember to take a kid fishing. This is a good way to start a kid and build interest in fishing.

NIMROD was telling me this morning that he was having problems loading up his pics. We may figure it out this weekend. I didn't realize until I got home and loaded up my pics that I had a big smudge right on the lens of my camera. Probably catfish slime or catalpa juice.:eek:
I've got to work on a couple yards the rest of the weekend and get ready to go back into L.R. for the week.:(

Here's a couple more pics from this morning...

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NIMROD'S double on nice ones...

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You guys follow me around the internet or what?

Hey Fish, your name on this one is Gooch or Slabbandit?

Can you guys not stick with the same names on all of your message boards? Lol. It makes life easier on guys like me...

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Originally Posted by FroMan

You guys follow me around the internet or what?

Hey Fish, your name on this one is Gooch or Slabbandit?

Can you guys not stick with the same names on all of your message boards? Lol. It makes life easier on guys like me...

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NIMROD is Fish .:D Hey who following who grasshopper ?:D Just keep quite and follow , you may learn somethimg yet.;)

Thanks for the pics guys. Looks like y'all had a blast out there on the lake. And there's no better time to be out there than the time of the first pic.

And, it's a lot of fun catchin ol' whiskers on a 10' jiggin pole...but I'm definately gonna have to try out the 16.5' pole...I imagine that's quite a tussle...:D

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Originally Posted by FroMan

You guys follow me around the internet or what?

Hey Fish, your name on this one is Gooch or Slabbandit?

Can you guys not stick with the same names on all of your message boards? Lol. It makes life easier on guys like me...

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Hey FroMan! Your pic doesn't look the same! I know there really IS a reason for your name:D

polebender aka fullcredit

Hey guys we went out and had a blast this morning. I guided for my son, his girl friend ,her parents and my woman. We fished till almost 10.00 am and it started out slow. We released a few and lost a few at the boat as we forgot the net. We still brought in 53 Catfish. Not bad for a morning's fishing trip with a group not used to catch'n many.:cool:
Slabbandit ,I got a new steering cable on my trolling motor. Thinking about Crappie fishing soon. But have another bunch to take Catfishing tomarrow. Better get you some sweet feed and get busy.:)
Trips available for those wanting just to catch fish.:D

Hey NIMROD, The world is not fixen' to end after all...Debra found my GPS!! She and I are going out to fish a little while in the morning then we are going over to Brushy Creek to swim before coming in. See ya out there!

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Originally Posted by slabbandit

Hey NIMROD, The world is not fixen' to end after all...Debra found my GPS!! She and I are going out to fish a little while in the morning then we are going over to Brushy Creek to swim before coming in. See ya out there!

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Unless things have changed the Crappie are in 6 to 9' water on the bottom. I plan to Crappie fish with my son's girl friend's stepdad. We are going to take and anchor his boat over a Catfish hole . His wife ,daughter,and my son plan on Catfishing. That boy is going to bait a lot of hooks and remove a lot from fish this morning if they bite.:rolleyes: Well good luck as the Crappie fishing is slow and the bandit trollers are catching a few . I did fair 2 days this week on black/chartruse jigs in stakebeds. We had a fish fry and cooked a gallon bag of Crappie fillets last night. Those were the ones I caught this week .The most of the week has been spent catching Catfish.
Oh yea ,Slabless is coming up this afternoon to Catfish today and tomarrow. I think I'll be ready for a fishing break after toimarrow.:eek: :D

Sounds like a blast, post plenty of pics for us!

Guys the Crappie have slowed for us but the catfshing is red hot! We caught only 4 real good Crappie today . I guided for 6 people and we kept limits of catfish for everyone . Man 70 is a lot of catfish to fillet!:eek: It was fun except the cleaning. My boat is a **** mess between the slime, fish poop, and the sweet feed.:rolleyes:
Slabless and his boy from Marche had a blast.:D

Hey NIMROD, sounds like yall had a good time. We kept 8 nice crappie but they were tough to find. Deep and tight to the brush. Lost a couple good ones that got back in the brush on us.

Thanks for the trip Nimrod!:D We all caught our limits today. My freezer is full, and my 9-year-old had a ball.

Your welcome there Slabless. My son and I went out this morning to feed the fish. It's been since Monday and they have to be fed to keep them there.
The fishing was slow and it took till 9.00 am just to get our limits and released several more. We did'nt fish the same hole where we caught them Monday. Hope they really stacked up there for tomarrow. Will try to get out and feed them again this afternoon. Tommy and his boy will be here at 6.00 am to try their luck.:D

Look'in good there Nimrod.

Thanks, we are on the Carfish hot right now. M1Tommy booked a trip for him and his son. Sorry the boy could'nt make it for an upset stomach. We had 2 limits in little over an hour. I dressed them and when Tommy left he plans to book another trip soon. He told me that he would try to post pictures of our trip. Sure was great meeting him ,hope more Crappie .com guys will consider booking a trip. We have the best deal right now for young'ns just wanting to catch a nice bunch of fish.:D

Whoh Mamma, now that's fish'n.

We're going to try baiting a spot in the morning to fish tomorrow evening and Sunday morning. I hope I can find some catalpa worms still.