Ok guys don't nail my hide to the barn for this oar cam video. When I took this video I had been fighting this fish on my ultra light rod for some time. I decided to try a video. After I saw it I thought why not put it on youtube? At 1:16 you can see my other rod get hit. That fish stayed on too. The fish in the video is 25" and fought like crazy.
We caught 50 fish on this trip out of our pontoon boats. Ron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq32aNukN9s
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Nice vid and nice fish!
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Nice video. It really looks like you have a halibut rather than a catfish.
Windriver
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Wow thanks for sharing . Great Video , keep your wonderfull reports coming . Curt G.
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Great stuff.
With two poles and especially when you get to fish on, do you get the tangled when you are trying to land them? I know an anchor can be a problem, just wondering if the second pole is an issue too.
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I'm curious as to what weight line you use for catfish with that ultra light rod??
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I don't have that much trouble with cats tangling with two rods. Most of the time once I get the second hook set that cat settles down just like in the video. I also kick away from the other fish so I am not right over it. Ron
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I keep 4 pound on that rod. I put a snap swivel on the end of the 4 pound but I use a 10 pound leader. They sometimes run me into the rocks so I use the heavier line for abrasion resistance. Ron
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cool video ! i expected to see a sturgeon the way he was pulling ! 4 minute fight awesome fun !
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That ultra light is the funnest cat rod I own. Ron
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good clean american fun,good job,you set a fine example of how its done,ever have a problem with the reel handle spinning backwards to fast,ever get a backlass from fish running to hard..I just set the drag loose or however..
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My reels don't turn backwards unless I set them to do it. I NEVER set the reel to go backwards. I just adjust the drag and let them pull. Ron
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Cool just checking,wouldn't want anything to happen to that light action combo of yours.I too enjoy light action,I hear in some places people fish with the handle set to spin back.I'll try to get more details,Alfred was the one telling me something about this.
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[quote Paulpro]Cool just checking,wouldn't want anything to happen to that light action combo of yours.I too enjoy light action,I hear in some places people fish with the handle set to spin back.I'll try to get more details,Alfred was the one telling me something about this.[/quote]
It's called "back reeling". When spinning first came to the US the reels had poor drags or none at all, and we reeled backward while fighting fish. It was rare to find a drag on a casting reel until the Ambas
eur 5000 became popular, and bass and steelhead fishermen all reeled their casting reels backward until about 50 years ago. I reeled all my spinning reels backward until drags were improved in the last 20 years. Many of the casting reels from the 1980s had anti-reverse switches on them so that you could switch from using a drag, to fighting the fish using your thumb. I always turned the drag on heavy to set the hook, then switched to back reeling to fight the fish.
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good stuff,to bad there isn't a way to put some tension on the anti reverse,that way you could control the rate in which the handle spins.
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