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Post by Red Bear on Jun 22, 2015 13:57:08 GMT -5
I am just wondering if its even possible the channel cats in the lake are stunted. I do a lot of catfishing off the dock at night there on SML. I've caught so many channel cats that are 18-20 inches long and weigh 3-lbs that i stopped measuring and weighing them, I just pretty much know what a 3-lb 18-20 inch channel cat looks like now. rarey do i catch one bigger, heavier, longer. I'm specifically asking about the channel cats, not worried about the flatheads, bullheads, whatever. One weekend about 3 years ago i must've caught 150 channel catfish or more in one weekend off the dock, and id guarantee 90-95% of them were 18-20 inches and weighed 3-lbs. I havent come close to duplicating that number of fish caught in a weekend since, but i still cant seem to get any bigger channel cats, and you would think the odds of a bigger fish would increase greatly having caught so many, but nope....
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Post by jmr04 on Jun 22, 2015 14:02:48 GMT -5
I'm just glad to hear they are still being caught. Used to live in a townhouse around R28. Used to catch all we wanted using bluegill live and cut. Moved over to a house on the Blackwater now we are lucky to catch two or three a weekend. Didn't know if they were thinning out or it was just the change in location.
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Post by Gator on Jun 22, 2015 14:44:54 GMT -5
I'm just glad to hear they are still being caught. Used to live in a townhouse around R28. Used to catch all we wanted using bluegill live and cut. Moved over to a house on the Blackwater now we are lucky to catch two or three a weekend. Didn't know if they were thinning out or it was just the change in location. All the fish are on the Roanoke side.  |
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Post by Red Bear on Jun 22, 2015 15:26:18 GMT -5
I'm just glad to hear they are still being caught. Used to live in a townhouse around R28. Used to catch all we wanted using bluegill live and cut. Moved over to a house on the Blackwater now we are lucky to catch two or three a weekend. Didn't know if they were thinning out or it was just the change in location. its weird, sometimes i can only buy a bite if i cast to a certain spot in the water, its like theyre holed up in a certain small area of water. if i cast a foot past that area then nothing will bite, drag my bait into that certain area and BOOM! but its never the same area as the last trip i was there...really odd to me... |
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Post by fly on Feb 28, 2016 19:54:49 GMT -5
Sounds like a location and bait thing. Fishing cut shad on main lake points will give you bigger channels
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Post by flathead1802 on Jul 15, 2016 10:44:29 GMT -5
I fish the upper end of the lake mostly and get a lot of 6-10 pound cats.
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Post by Red Bear on Jul 25, 2016 12:23:08 GMT -5
Sounds like a location and bait thing. Fishing cut shad on main lake points will give you bigger channels im pretty much limited to a dock for my catfishing. so it could be the limited location. as for bait, i've tried a variety of bait, but i cant catch any shad. ive caught plenty of alewives off the dock with the throw net, but no shad... last september when the water was really low i did manage a couple 6-lbers, one channel and one flatty. both when i decided to use my lightweight setups. sucked having to pull them up on the dock though and risk losing them, the net would not reach them and this was with me laying on my belly and holding the net on the very end of the handle lol |
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