tjm Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 1 hour ago, BilletHead said: blessed with channel cat What sort of fly, and what kind of structure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 1 hour ago, tjm said: What sort of fly, and what kind of structure? Submerged log with a few branches. 5 to 6 foot deep. Was dragging crappie out of there when I pulled over a log and wham. A moving stream and a back eddy there. The same fly I just put in the fly swap. A couple days later a bigger one. It might be posted on the swap also. Terrierman and tjm 1 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 @tjm Pm me your address and I will send you one. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomolites Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 2 hours ago, tjm said: What sort of fly, and what kind of structure? I’ve caught lots, mainly channels, fishing terrestrials and poppers for bluegill during the spawn. They are in shallow at the same time. Over pea gravel in shallow cuts, wood is better. Mike tjm and Terrierman 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 2 hours ago, nomolites said: I’ve caught lots, mainly channels, fishing terrestrials and poppers for bluegill during the spawn. They are in shallow at the same time. Over pea gravel in shallow cuts, wood is better. Mike Many more channels than blues I agree for me too. Terrierman and tjm 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmidwest Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Cats like purple. I used to fish a local pay pond for fun back in the 90's. It was overloaded with small bluegill and had several big bass lunking around in it. But they tossed channel catfish in every month or so. It was close, on way home, and only a couple of bucks. Most of the time she did not even charge me when I took out a bucket or so of those small bluegills. I stocked a few other ponds with them. Size 16 furbug was killer. Purple wooly would get all of the baitfishers crowding around me like Montauk on opening day. Watched them cuss me as I tossed them back after a good fight on a 5 wt rod. tjm and Hawg 2 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 It has always seemed to me that if I'm taking bass, goggle eye, green sunfish, various minnows and crappie that I should occasionally find a cat fish or carp, since they eat a lot of the same grub, but I never have. I have caught bullhead on the fly though, by accident once and then I targeted them a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 I caught a barely legal Blue on a Clouser last fall. He really looked tasty so he went home with me. That'll probably be the last one.....cuz it was far from a culinary delight. 😝 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneshot 1 Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 Heard of a guy that goes every year and buys Park Permit. Then just fishes for Goggle Eye. oneshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyfisher for men Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 3/2/2023 at 11:22 AM, BilletHead said: I have been really blessed with channel cat and blue cat on the fly rod. I don't have access to blues, but have caught surprisingly numerous channels on the fly--mainly buggers. A few flatheads, too. Underrated as a fly fishing species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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