06-30-2011, 11:43 AM
[quote WyomingMoose]How many on here have caught a catfish on a fly?
It can be done, usually with leech patterns. To me this sounds much more difficult than catching wipers on a fly.[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]When I used to wave the fairy wand more I caught plenty of all species on it...including grundles of kitties. At Willard Bay I would work down the dikes throwing tandem fly rigs for crappies...and the occasional walleyes...back in the pre-wiper days. It was easy to catch over 100 crappies a day on flies...limit was 50. Walleyes were always in eating crappies...limit was 6 with only 2 over 20 inches...and tough to find any UNDER 20 inches. Limit on cats was 8 and I often caught 20 or more in a day down the dike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used a large "silver hilton" or black bugger on the end and a chartreuse and silver small streamer on a dropper about 18" up. Doubles on crappie were common and doubles of mixed species were not rare. When the fish were really in I rarely fished more than a hundred yards to the north of the channel entrance at the south marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I won a couple of bets from naysayers who put up money that I could not catch cats on flies. After I had brought in the first half dozen or so...on as many casts...they tried to call off the bet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here's a pic of a triple limit (hate dead fish pictures) all caught on flies within about 3 hours early in June one year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh yeah, I have also caught LOTS of cats...and big walleyes at Utah Lake on flies. They love big black marabou creations that imitate baby bullheads...and big white streamers when the young whities are schooling around the reeds.[/#0000ff]
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It can be done, usually with leech patterns. To me this sounds much more difficult than catching wipers on a fly.[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]When I used to wave the fairy wand more I caught plenty of all species on it...including grundles of kitties. At Willard Bay I would work down the dikes throwing tandem fly rigs for crappies...and the occasional walleyes...back in the pre-wiper days. It was easy to catch over 100 crappies a day on flies...limit was 50. Walleyes were always in eating crappies...limit was 6 with only 2 over 20 inches...and tough to find any UNDER 20 inches. Limit on cats was 8 and I often caught 20 or more in a day down the dike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used a large "silver hilton" or black bugger on the end and a chartreuse and silver small streamer on a dropper about 18" up. Doubles on crappie were common and doubles of mixed species were not rare. When the fish were really in I rarely fished more than a hundred yards to the north of the channel entrance at the south marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I won a couple of bets from naysayers who put up money that I could not catch cats on flies. After I had brought in the first half dozen or so...on as many casts...they tried to call off the bet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here's a pic of a triple limit (hate dead fish pictures) all caught on flies within about 3 hours early in June one year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh yeah, I have also caught LOTS of cats...and big walleyes at Utah Lake on flies. They love big black marabou creations that imitate baby bullheads...and big white streamers when the young whities are schooling around the reeds.[/#0000ff]
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