03-22-2009, 12:30 AM
KarlL and I hit up Cutler this morning planning on trolling for some eyes. After about a half hour of no bites we decided to change it up and try for some cats. Not wanting to have re-rig my pole, I jokingly tossed the baited hook off the side thinking, "Hey it's got a better chance of catching a fish in the water than in the boat." and rigged up my other pole and cast it in the other side.
A little while later, after watching a pig of a cat repeatedly jump out of the water about 50 yards to the north of us, we decided to pick up and move over there. As I was reeling in the pole i was actually fishing with Karl noticed my other line working it's way away from us. Sure enough a big ole channel was kind enough to hook itself. After a little fight underneath the boat we got it on the scales at 4lbs 10oz.
Needless to say we never got around to pulling the anchor. We fished till 2 and caught over 20 lbs of fish only keeping two of the bigger channels for dinner.
Here's the final count.
Channel cats: 2 @ 5lbs 9oz (we know they're not the same fish cause one was on a leader when the second was caught.) 1@ 4lbs 10oz, and 1 @ 2lbs 12oz.
1 carp @ about 6 lbs. we didn't bother weighing it because, well, it's a carp. 'nuff said.
and 1 fingerling bullhead (bait)
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A little while later, after watching a pig of a cat repeatedly jump out of the water about 50 yards to the north of us, we decided to pick up and move over there. As I was reeling in the pole i was actually fishing with Karl noticed my other line working it's way away from us. Sure enough a big ole channel was kind enough to hook itself. After a little fight underneath the boat we got it on the scales at 4lbs 10oz.
Needless to say we never got around to pulling the anchor. We fished till 2 and caught over 20 lbs of fish only keeping two of the bigger channels for dinner.
Here's the final count.
Channel cats: 2 @ 5lbs 9oz (we know they're not the same fish cause one was on a leader when the second was caught.) 1@ 4lbs 10oz, and 1 @ 2lbs 12oz.
1 carp @ about 6 lbs. we didn't bother weighing it because, well, it's a carp. 'nuff said.
and 1 fingerling bullhead (bait)
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