Stockton Cats Starting To Move In.

[RiverFisher5944]

Regarding the question of blue cats versus channel catfish I have caught several cats over the years out of Stockton and never have pulled in a blue. Just large channels that are constantly thought to be blues. The white cats that are supposedly caught in the Osage river are actually blues. The image I posted clearly shows the drastic difference in the anal fin of channels and blues. Mitchell from looking at your picture provided I would call that a channel cat appears to have the rounded anal fin. The confusion comes when large channels lose the spots that are common on smaller channels. Hope this helps

[RiverFisher5944]

[kwall]

One thing you guys won't have to worry bout is me keeping a Channel , I use to eat them till I ate a blue cat -- I have found the fillets on a Blue are whiter meat and have no yellow fat line in them