Winter Catfishing?

[Darron Cooper]

Anybody know of anywhere to catch cats this time of the year on the lake? My 9 year old son has been reading all about winter catfishing and wants to go this weekend. Most of the articles say catfish "school" in deep holes off the main channnels. Like everything you have to find the holes to catch fish. I normally fish Indian point area and it seems there arent many catfish that way. I though about fishing river arms this weekend for whatever is biting. Any advice is appreciated.

Darron

[Kicknbass]

Good Luck... I don't have any idea. Are you fishing w/ a trot-line or line and pole? Ya might try Walmart's frozen seafood section:)

[dtrs5kprs]

Have never done it at Table Rock, but here in KS and growing up in IA, we used to whack channel cats pretty hard just at ice out, or just as temps start inching up if no ice. Mostly drifting flats with cut shad, especially in areas that have lots of killed shad.

Thinking of Ratbun in IA, and Perry Lake in KS. Both are flat, mid-size COE lakes, so obviously they are a different deal. But...I have caught "eating" channels around Baxter on a stickbait in March while fishing flat gravel with killed shad present. Makes me think it could work, if you could find the right area.

[Stump bumper]

On the Beaver lake page there is a picture of 2 nice 10-12 lb blue cats caught below the route 12 bridge where the shad were really thick. I would think that the shell knob bridge or any bridges over the main channel would be about the same type of location. With the low water there is a lot of piling exposed to the sun that is probally warming the water a little and the cats usually like the structure around bridges anyway.

I am not a cat person, but it is the only report I have so trying to make a pattern out of it.They were fishing vertically with live broad minnows looking for stripers at the time.

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