thefinleyassasin

ok so then they were channels. I always thought the bigger channels retained their silver grey color. I dont know the difference in say color or looks but i have some old timers around i'll try and drum up some information from them if they dont have sometimers yet. ALSO YESTERDAY I SAW THE BIGGEST BASS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE WILD. A COUPLE GUYS IN A FLATBOTTOM BOAT LANDED A 6-7 POUIND FISH THEY GUESS THIS LARGE MOUTH BASE COULD HAVE FIT A GRAPE FRUIT IN ITS MOUTH. IT WAS WICKED HUGE. THEY WERE USING PLASTICE WORMS UP ABOVE THE RIVERDALE HYDRO PLANT CRAZY BIG FISH. Im not sure that this bass was of their guesses weight but it was a monster they said they planned on mounting it. Oh also the flatheads must have had a realy good spawn this last year or the year befor been catchiing loads of small flatheads about 8-10 inches long. And man do they have some jaw pressure.

But i could be wrong im no expert for sure just a back woods raised country boy with a nak for fishing. let me know what you think the picture of the cat i got up looks like to you cause all of them have looked like the small one in the pics. Also ive bveen catching lots of snappers and really big crayfish got a trick to catching the big crawdaddies with a line and sinker no hook needed really. Bout to head out the door to the river. Probably go after some whites they taste good if you can catch a dozen of em seing how most the males are tiny. Oh off topic only found one bass that had round (cod?) worms in it. And it was a large mouth 14 incher my girl caught . Oh also confused i see in the missouri conservation book where they have a 12 inch keeper limit on all black bass for alot of rivers but 15 inch for lakes wich is it on the finley 12 or 15 to keep?

yeh i looked at your links on identifying the cats the anal fins were smooth and even and narrower than a channels sail like anal fin. I would post more pics but this uploader is giving me trouble because they are all over 2 megs in size ...... trying to figure out a way around it might have to throw my facebook down on here and put them on there so people can get a peek.....

No the white river used to hold the oldest strain of walleye in this area from what ive heard befor they put in the tablerock dam they called them river jake walleye and they breed very poorly and from what i understand are nearly gone and have been replaced by the conservation with a smaller size breed of walleye. And yes these were blue cats cause their tails were not forked like a channel and their heads were very robust and meaty not so sleek like that of a channel. ........ i got pictures i could be wrong but i know channel cats have deep v forks in theit tails along with spots and different coloring these had no spots blue color and very very slight dip it the tail fin.

Well i just subscribed to this forum so im new here guys but far from new to the finley. . About 2 weeks ago i pulled a 21 inch walleye out of the finley. Suprised the heck out of me. Ive pulled 2 blue cats out as well in the last week both very fat and over 5 pounds as well. Last night i pulled what id guess to be an 8 to 10 pound blue cat out last night while the moon was covered. Ive caught loads of small mouth and large mouth out (as well as litteral truck loads of white bass) .they are in every hole deeper than your knees it seems. Im wondering what suprises the finley holds next for me. Dont see it topping the walleye tho. Altho the gar snapping and soft shell turtles are a little suprising when you first pull them in i dono what i could catch that would come close to that walleye. Maybe i'll pull a 30 poind flat head out ...that would definatly suprise me. Anyways if anyone else has pulled a walleye out let me know i am curious as to the population of walleye in the finley. I'll have pictures up soon.