Are there Blue catfish in Stockton?

[MoCarp]

Stockton has some nice channels..I catch a lot of nicer fish carping...most people confuse big channels with blues

[BilletHead]

5 hours ago, lmt out said:

Is that a blue or a channel? 

        Channel,

  Some folks call the male channel a blue like that when they spawn. They get darker,

BilletHead

[bassfisher]

Yes there is I'll send pics here after while took my wife 5-24-14

[MoCarp]

those are channels. rounded anal fins and eyes are set higher on the head than a blue..

they look like they are in spawning mode as the head lips are swollen..fish are darker then as well..they are cavity spawners and the males get that way def nests

[straw hat]

All of the above are channels. Blues get close to 100 lbs and 20 or 30 lbs is fairly common. I am in agreement with Billethead, that one is a male channel in spawn. There is actually some good fishing for channels this time of year if you can find out which part of the bluffs they are schooled up at. Sometimes the schools will contain over a 100 fish but you better have good electronics to find them. When I ws younger I use to do that a lot during winter. I would have to make 10 or 20 stops in my favorite spots until (if) I found them. Then I might limit out I n an hour or so. That is too much work for an old man like me.  lol

By the way those are some nice fish in those photos.

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, straw hat said:

All of the above are channels. Blues get close to 100 lbs and 20 or 30 lbs is fairly common. I am in agreement with Billethead, that one is a male channel in spawn. There is actually some good fishing for channels this time of year if you can find out which part of the bluffs they are schooled up at. Sometimes the schools will contain over a 100 fish but you better have good electronics to find them. When I ws younger I use to do that a lot during winter. I would have to make 10 or 20 stops in my favorite spots until (if) I found them. Then I might limit out I n an hour or so. That is too much work for an old man like me.  lol

By the way those are some nice fish in those photos.

       Winter plus shad guts equal a good time. I used to do that to on the Osage river many moons ago,

BilletHead

[MoCarp]

some of the best blue cat fishing is in winter..they are eating machines...one reason they get so big...LOZ has some monsters as does Truman......

[bassfisher]

Sure thought they were. 

[MoCarp]

38 minutes ago, bassfisher said:

Sure thought they were. 

its a VERY easy mistake...good thing is they are hella channels!

[bassfisher]

The fish of pic I sent were caught in the back of highpoint ramp cove there is a spring back there. All on night crawlers.  That year was a good one  if I had known they were channels I would have released