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New To Tr And Need Some Catfish Help


Jan_Z

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Hello everybody I'm new to TR but not new to fishing I spent the last few years hammering the saltwater fish on the North coast of California Here's a bigun that didn't get away. Just an icebreaker.

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I've started splashing the boat at Eagle rock and have been out three times now have caught bass, perch and crappie just no love at all on the catfish been trying up in the Roaring river arm can anyone give me some whiskerfish help. I'd sure appreciate it.

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Due to envy of the above side barn door people were unable to respond.

I aint sure what is happening with TR cats this year unfortunately been to busy with walleye on Beaver. But you may want to try the James river. If you really want catfish arguably one of the best cat lakes in the states is only about an hour or so from you in Oklahoma ( Grand Lake O the Cherokee ) wish I could be more helpful but with the eye's biting so well this year I haven't ventured over there much.

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TR doesn't seem to be a popular cat lake for board members. Probably because it lacks blues. It does have a good population of flats, or so it seems.

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TR grows very large fish. I am sure catfish of immense proportions reside here. I simply do not know where. When you find them, I bet many would appreciate posts.

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I'm a firm believer in sharing the wealth, I and some others started a sportfishing board out in Northern California called Humboldt Tuna, www.humboldttuna.com Since we didn't have a local clearing house for passing the word on what's on the chew and where one of our unspoken mandates was to help the noobs when they asked for help and it still happens every day there.

If you ever decide to go out there and fish this is the place to check out.

We fished salmon, rockfish, lingcod, pacific halibut, california halibut (Fluke on the east coast btw), sandabs, albacore tuna and even the dreaded "Diablo rojo", better known as the humboldt squid and we also trapped dungeness crab too.

We had a heck of a fishery there but the ocean was a big place and you could strike out just being a few miles off the mark. We set the standard by passing the numbers(GPS) on the vhf and made sure everyone had a good shot at finding/catching fish.

So if I manage to get the catfish dialed in on TR I promise to "Pass the numbers" as well here on this board, I have the vhf on most of the time while out on the water and monitor ch 68 my call sign is Whisky Tango Foxtrot, I'm in a white 17 foot center console Triumph.

Our lady anglers out there were pretty good too, here's a shot of Beverly and a real nice fish she got down at Cape Mendocino one day she caught this toad on a lime green scampi lead head using 30# string it weighed in on the official scales at 120 pounds. Quite a feat of fishing.

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I am another one of those that fish Table Rock, but not for cats, so unfortunately I don't have any advice. I've heard stories of flatheads being caught along bluff walls. But that's about it.

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Catfishing has been pretty decent lately ive been fishing further up in the river using sucker minnows. Anywhere in the james river arm or flat creek should be good right now using cut shad for blues and channels or or bluegill/sunfish for flathead.

Drifting the flats with cut shad would probably be good right now as well.

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In Roaring River you can find some channel cat on the banks of the old channel back in the timbered stretch and on out to the next bluff in the daytime. They scatter out on the flats at night. There are a few flatheads in the bluff rock, best to chase them at night on the long points that extend from the bluff ends, usually on or near the channel break.

I've done better on the main lake in that area than the coves in summer though, same strategy. Big ditches (the ones you could drop a car in) cutting thru mainlake flats are prime spots. Cut shad for the channels and live shad or green sunfish for the flatties.

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