10-25-2013, 09:44 PM
[#0000FF]When I lived and fished in Arizona I caught quite a few "mid-sized" flatheads...in the 25 to 30 pound range. One of the things I learned was to always maneuver the tube so that you were pulling on them from an angle...never straight up and down. That tires them out more and keeps them away from your tube until you are ready to deal with them.
Bigger cats usually don't have the sharp spines that smaller cats do. But they can still do some damage. Worst problem I ever witnessed was a fellow tuber becoming "hog tied" by his own line when a cat did a couple of half hitches and a granny knot around his ankles. I had to come help him subdue the fish and get his ankles freed.
That was undoubtedly a planned thing. But I wouldn't even attempt catching one of those beasts without some quality backup.
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Bigger cats usually don't have the sharp spines that smaller cats do. But they can still do some damage. Worst problem I ever witnessed was a fellow tuber becoming "hog tied" by his own line when a cat did a couple of half hitches and a granny knot around his ankles. I had to come help him subdue the fish and get his ankles freed.
That was undoubtedly a planned thing. But I wouldn't even attempt catching one of those beasts without some quality backup.
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