Baxter Area Catfish

[CLINTC]

IS THE BAXTER AREA THE BEST FOR CATFISH IN TABLE ROCK

[dtrs5kprs]

Well...Baxter is the only place I've ever caught channels schooling on a spook. There were a bunch of them working up and down the Big Indian tearing up shad.

But...the biggest cat I have caught on the lake was in Aunts cranking a point with a wart. Sorry Tim.

[denjac]

Well...Baxter is the only place I've ever caught channels schooling on a spook. There were a bunch of them working up and down the Big Indian tearing up shad.

But...the biggest cat I have caught on the lake was in Aunts cranking a point with a wart. Sorry Tim.

Boy, Aunts creek has it all! Why would anyone want to fish anywhere else?

[KCRIVERRAT]

Use do do ok up the James, especially in the arm leading to the Piney Creek wilderness area. We'd be crappie fishing and catch nothing but channels. I'm no catfisherman... so take it for what it's worth.

[edwin]

Not much of a cat fisherman, but the best cat I've caught was last Oct...in Aunts Creek, an on a jigging spoon nontheless! I'll see if I can get the pic uploaded.

pic added

[PHhunter]

My brother flat tears up the flat heads in late may and early june around baxter. ITS NOTHING FOR HIM TO run two lines and have 6 or 7 5to15 pounders a night. Its a lot of fun.

[Champ188]

I'd probably go to Long Creek. I hear you can catch bass down there on anything you throw so it stands to reason that the cats should be easy pickins too.

[techo]

Ouch! Not an easy crowd. Hard to argue with Champ. (thanks for the support)

[arsenal1477]

Trying catfishing on the bluffs across from point 11. There is a HUGE cedar tree sticking out of the water on one of those bluff points with a small cove to the left of it. The last few years I have been there to try and catch some crappie I would get into some small red ear sunfish a little bit bigger than the size of the palm of your hand. Since no crappie would hit, I would rig up a drop shot rig with a 1/4oz.-1/2oz. swivel weight and a 4/O Gamakatsu hook 18 to 24 inches up the line, catch one of those red ear on a minnow, cut them into a view pieces, throw it on the drop shot rig and toss it out. Good thing about that bait is its a natural bait for them like shad as well as since your hooking them through scale the bait wont come off if you get a cat on. What I normally do is stay tied up to that cedar tree and throw parallel to the bank towards the back part of the cove maybe 25-50 feet from the bank. Reel the line in just enough to where the line is taught to keep the bait off the bottom. The last few times I have done this I have left with Flat Heads anywhere from 2-25lbs. Im sure you can do this on any part of the lake, but that spot seems to do well for me not to mention that its not in the summer, its in the end of April. Hope that helps!

[techo]

Trying catfishing on the bluffs across from point 11. There is a HUGE cedar tree sticking out of the water on one of those bluff points with a small cove to the left of it. The last few years I have been there to try and catch some crappie I would get into some small red ear sunfish a little bit bigger than the size of the palm of your hand. Since no crappie would hit, I would rig up a drop shot rig with a 1/4oz.-1/2oz. swivel weight and a 4/O Gamakatsu hook 18 to 24 inches up the line, catch one of those red ear on a minnow, cut them into a view pieces, throw it on the drop shot rig and toss it out. Good thing about that bait is its a natural bait for them like shad as well as since your hooking them through scale the bait wont come off if you get a cat on. What I normally do is stay tied up to that cedar tree and throw parallel to the bank towards the back part of the cove maybe 25-50 feet from the bank. Reel the line in just enough to where the line is taught to keep the bait off the bottom. The last few times I have done this I have left with Flat Heads anywhere from 2-25lbs. Im sure you can do this on any part of the lake, but that spot seems to do well for me not to mention that its not in the summer, its in the end of April. Hope that helps!

That is some great detailed information! Thanks.