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[tjm]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

blessed with channel cat

What sort of fly, and what kind of structure?

[BilletHead]

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. 

[BilletHead]

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[nomolites]

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

[BilletHead]

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. 

[jdmidwest]

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]

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.

[fishinwrench]

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.   😝

[oneshot 1]

Heard of a guy that goes every year and buys Park Permit.  Then just fishes for Goggle Eye.

oneshot 

[Flyfisher for men]

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.