Fishing Forum

Decided to hit up Cutler this afternoon to further investigate a spot that my fishing buddy and I were having some success at last night when we ran out of day. This is the first year that I've had a boat, so I'm discovering a whole lot more to this place than I knew about from shore. Anywho, we weren't having success in the shallower places where I've caught catfish in years past, so we decided to try deep. Found a place where we were in 8ft of water without too much of a current and anchored up. 10 minutes into dropping anchor and getting our lines into the water. I had a pretty good bite on one of my poles. As soon as I had the hook set, I could tell that this one was big. I had a further indication of how big this fish was when it tried to swim under the boat and my 6' medium action ugly stick bent completely in half from me trying to keep it away from the anchor rope. Having never caught a fish this big from a boat, the one thing I wasn't expecting was having to fight it straight up. This thing would not budge. I understand what you lake trout fisherman mean about not wanting to fight a fish vertically. All told, we did manage to land it and weigh it. 13 lbs on the nose.

Rest of the day was a pretty good success as well with one other fish of similar size breaking my friend's line after only a glimpse and several other cats ranging from the 4 lb range on down. All were caught on worms or carp meat.
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Nice! Maybe I need to give Cutler a try again soon. That's a beast.
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Nice fish. There are big ones in there for sure. And having a boat sure seems to help.
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Beautiful Kitty.
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You should be able to find that out fer yerself pretty soon bud!!! Almost met you at Mantua Sunday - if my son had his wish. Picked up the "new" boat Friday. Ready for the maiden voyage!

Karl - you using the downrigger to get down those 8 ft? (lol)
Thats a lunk for sure! You passed my next goal-mark, the 10lber! I hate it when they take off under your boat! Fished behind some logs again, and had the same thing - tried to make a run underneath - pole gone BENDO, but I held on, and he didn't break off! Worked me pretty good. Half the size, but plenty of fight. Missed several hooksets, but with the late-afternoon sun, they seemed pretty active. At least I had my netter with me! Just need to get him to grab a pole!

After such a cruddy morning, it was nice to see the sun and the GLASS on the water. Good break from all the wind! Maybe see ya out there one of these times.

Looks like you had a pretty good day yourself, though I notice that the grand total on that scale is only around 11 lbs. You know my one fish was bigger by a couple lbs.... Just messin' with ya, and yes, we were using the downriggers...as pole holders.
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Yup - point made and taken. Touche. [pirate]
(FWIW: I did tare the cooler lid!)

Still got my work cut out - out there. But it can only get better!

Now there was that one brick that snapped right off with my overzealous hookset. I think it was a 20lber (I can say that, cuz I just don't know!).

Yeah yeah- next thing - Lavaman'll start riding my knot tying again!
Just need to get my boy to hold a rod enough to wrastle one of them beasts! Then HE'LL be hooked!!!

Again - thanks for the report.
You're s###-eatin grin tells all!