03-01-2009, 03:58 AM
[font "Verdana"][#ff0000]Same story here. We have only caught them at night. Before the low water year(s) I would take the kids and sleep over on the bank soaking a nightcrawler. You would have to use 12-14 pound line and tie your rod to a tree or your leg or truck or something or it would not be there in the morning. One of my boys put a big one on a metal stringer and tied it to a tree only to find the thing mangled up like a bread wrapper twisty in a lawnmower and no fish in the morning. We did try to cook one of those big monsters - word of warning - I like catfish but this one was the nastiest vilest thing I have ever tasted. I'd rather eat medical waste. We put them all back after that. Crazy fun for kids camping, getting woke up 3-4 times over the night to your pole bells ringing or the willow you tied it to thrashing wildly to wrestle one in. We went once last summer and slept soundly with just visions of big catfish in our dreams. [/#ff0000][/font]
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