Catfish feeding fun

[rlk]

My catfish are not as large as yours, but I sure do enjoy feeding and watching them. March of this year, I stocked my pond. The catfish, bass, bream and shell crackers were all fingerlings. The attached picture shows how much the catfish have grown since march, along with one of three frequent visitors we have when it is feeding time.
Bob

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My catfish are not as large as yours )</font>

My older catfish are 3 years or older. I feed about 75 lb of food per week, so they have grown pretty big. I have plenty of curious/hungry turtles too. Sometimes it looks like an invasion of mini-submarines, all with their periscopes up. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I've seen catfish whack the turtles with their tails just to make them move away from their food.

I have some neighbors who try to catch the catfish with worms or stink bait and don't have much luck. When I want to catch some fish, I just make a little pouch with catfish food in it and attach it to a treble hook. I throw it out and let it float on the water and almost instantly get a bite. The last fishing trip only lasted 8 minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif My drink didn't even get warm. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Docsknotinn]

Can you fish from your tractor ? Now theres a phot op !

 

[jinman]

Hmmm...New Holland Boomer Bass Boats... Kinda has a nice catchy name doesn't it? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[gotrocks]

Jim here is one more fish tale.
Several years (30+) one of the first catfish ponds opened in our area and you paid .50 per pound and could not throw any back after you caught them.

One morning at the coffe shop an old buddy related his experience the day before. Seems he had promised to take his grandson fishing. They got everything ready for a day of fishing & fun. Got to the lake helped grandson bait his hook and he cast it out, like you it was only a few minutes bam! a good strong strike, fight,fight, haul it in.. 10 pound catfish. He said he only had $5.00 on him so that ended the "day" of fishing. Had to pack up and go home.

I think I would have taken my grandson to the river or some other place but that was the end of his story.

So ends another tell, tail, tale. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jinman]

There is no such thing as a bad fish story... Keep 'em coming. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Docsknotinn]

Jim, I cant find my Texas game and fish books at the moment. Where is Wise Co in Texas. I've been down your way a few times for deer season, and to the llano BBQ, drool ! I am haveing a blind delivered this comeing week from Mustang Fiberglass which is a Texas Co. Ok Here is my fish story for you. You might remember a couple of guys that had a show on ESPN2 called the "reel Guys" they started with 5 minute clips between shows and then had a full show, I think they also did one called hoot and flakes. They were from Texas. I took My wife fly fishing about 3 years ago to Camp Boanventure in Quebec for atlantic salmon and the Reel guys were there filming a couple of shows along with the folks from The Atlantic salmon Federation. There were some late scotch nites and cuban cigar fests with the reel guys and their film crew. I dont think we stopped laughing for three days. One of the best fishing trips we ever had. I used to travel a lot and fished just about every place I went. Heck I even took my wife bass fishing on the lake in front of Cinderellas castle on our honeymoon at Disney. lol. She caught a 20# snapping turtle. It put up a heck of a fight /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jinman]

Dave, Wise County is just north of Tarrant County where Fort Worth is. I'm so far north in Wise County that I have to drive into the next county just to get on the road to drive back across the county line to my house. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I guess you could say I'm so far north in Texas that I can smell Oklahoma. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Another fish story: The carpet man who put in carpet and tile in my new house asked me if he could go fishing in my lake. I said okay and about dusk he went down with a light rod loaded with 6 lb test line and a tiny lime green plastic worm. About 10 minutes later I heard someone yelling and I drove down to the lake to find him trying to keep tension on his line, but not break it while a catfish ran left and right to the bank. The carpet guy said he had been fighting the fish for five minutes and he was afraid he was going to break his line before the fish got tired. Fifteen minutes later, the catfish finally gave up and he got him to the bank. I took a shovel and held the fish down while the carpet guy got a good grip on him and we hauled him up into his pickup bed. I weighed the fish and he was almost 14 lb. The 6 lb test line had held up because he had his drag set just right. After we landed the fish, the carpet guy just said two words, "I'm done!" ...and he was. He put up his fishing gear and left. He was one tired guy. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Docsknotinn]

I wanna come to your place with 30# test and a boogie board. LOL Reminds of when I was a kid there was a lot of transplanted King salmon in the great lakes. In the fall they would run up the streams and rivers to spawn. If you hooked into a 40 pounder You need to hold on ... literally ! They would actually make a wake going down stream. It must have been quite a sight from the bank for the bears and other critters. I have been down through your way sort of on the highway from Oklahoma city. I cut off the highway to avoid the DFW traffic and went down through Mineral wells. I Love Texas. In my next life I'm gonna live their. Do you ever get down to do any fishin in the gulf ?

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do you ever get down to do any fishin in the gulf ? )</font>
While I was in the US Navy, I fished on the east coast, west coast, and the Carribean, but never in the Gulf of Mexico. ...I gotta do something about that. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif