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70 pound blue cat on 8 pound test
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:30 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:30 am
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Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:31 am to deeprig9
That’s impressive.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:37 am to deeprig9
When I fish natural lay downs for crappie, I get the occasional cat bite. I've landed some nice flat heads, but nothing near that size. I have also not landed some things I never saw that just swam away leaving me no way to stop them on my 6 to 8lb leader.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:37 am to deeprig9
I wonder where exactly the fish was hooked. Had to have been somewhere the "teeth" (not sure what they're called) couldn't have gotten to the line. The bigger those things get, the sharper their teeth are. We catch 15-20lbers in Toledo every year and the first year we started fishing them I grabbed it by the lip and it did a number on my hand.
Pretty cool story.
Pretty cool story.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 11:38 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 11:50 am to WhiskeyThrottle
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We catch 15-20lbers in Toledo every year and the first year we started fishing them I grabbed it by the lip and it did a number on my hand.
I've had that happen to me several times over the years. Catch a 20+ lb. cat on the Mississippi River and needing to get it landed with all the rip-rap that lines the levee system in the Orleans/St. Bernard Parish area and you really need to go get them out the water.
Lots of times I'd lose skin sticking my hands in their mouth and having them fight like hell when doing it. Just like heavy duty sandpaper grinding skin away.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:47 pm to deeprig9
Watching the youtube video, they mentioned it possibly being an IGFA record. I did a search on blue cat's and if they can get it certified, I think it would be for 8lb test...
IGFA Blue Cat records
IGFA Blue Cat records
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:56 pm to deeprig9
Fake and not possible. 8LB test would break
Posted on 4/13/23 at 1:09 pm to 225Tyga
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Fake and not possible. 8LB test would break
He was white bass fishing with a rooster tail on the Oconee River near Skull Shoals, during the white bass run, 8 pound test is typically the max that people use, most use 4 or 6 for casting distance and longer retrieves. So the story is completely plausible.
Also, I landed a 20 pound channel on 6 pound mono once. drag is key. And mono's ability to stretch is also key. And a little luck.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 1:37 pm to deeprig9
quote:And patience
drag is key.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 1:59 pm to 225Tyga
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Fake and not possible. 8LB test would break
70 Pound FLathead on 6 LB Line
I don't know...hers another one from a lake about 80 miles east of this one. Depending on where the 70 LB flathead was caught in that lake the other one may be even more impressive. Clarkshill is mostly devoid of timber except for some areas, Oconee is basically a flooded forest
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 4/13/23 at 2:17 pm to deeprig9
My dad caught about a 50 pounder on either 10 or 20 pound line. We were fishing bean fields when the Ouachita flooded in the late 70's or early 80's. We were tight lining with catalpa worms.We weren't expecting to catch anything that big. We were catching perch, small mouth bass and an occasional cat fish like crazy. One day three of us caught over 70 fish. My dad kept trying to get us to go home by reminding us we'd have to clean all of them. We never caught that many again.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 4/13/23 at 2:18 pm to deeprig9
Sorry for the double post.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 4/13/23 at 3:27 pm to deeprig9
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As line sizzled from Koob’s reel, Jacob jumped on the trolling motor and chased the lake monster to recover as much line as possible and to ease some of the pressure on the rod and line while his brother battled the beast from below. Koob fought the giant for 30 minutes before it came to the surface, and they caught their first glimpse of it.
“When I started fighting the fish, I thought he was going to spool my reel,” Koob said. “I thought it might be a catfish or a big striper, but I had no idea it was a catfish that size. I just wanted to see what it was. After about 30 minutes, the fish started popping up to the surface, but he wasn’t ready to quit yet. I saw the big tail flop out of the water and wondered, ‘what is this thing?’ We just kept fighting it until the fish got tired.”
The team fought the powerful predator for another 10 minutes or so before they brought it alongside the boat. Justin tried to scoop it into the net, but the huge fish wouldn’t fit in the net more appropriate for landing largemouth or white bass.
Great catch they gave themselves a chance of landing that monster. I've never seen one even half that size. Impressive, indeed.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 4:50 pm to 225Tyga
Posted on 4/14/23 at 6:26 am to deeprig9
If he caught that damn thing on 8lb it had to have just swam toward the boat and surrendered...perhaps ole girl was depressed and ready to end it.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 9:47 am to deeprig9
My late grandad did similar at the age of 80. Caught a 60-80 lb cat on a J&J spinner that without his hearing aids in he said sounded like a pig grunting when he drug it out. Took him 2 hours to walk back to his pickup from his secret honey hole spot only shared with me on the north end of Toledo Bend around 1987 (easy to trace the year as he was born in 1907). Woods too thick in that area of the river bottoms to have used a ATV if he had one (did not).
He was using 20lb test though. I've talked about his method of hiding his trails here before in years past. Tree saplings growing thick as grass but he would only trim the limbs to his left leaving the right side intact and thus hiding/covering/obscuring over his trimming to the left. He had no access to a scale large enough to get an exact weight and the reason he bass fished with 20lb was he fished for meat as much as pleasure so that cat got cut and frozen fast.
ETA: He never learned to swim and he said boats made his head spin so he only fished from the banks.
He was using 20lb test though. I've talked about his method of hiding his trails here before in years past. Tree saplings growing thick as grass but he would only trim the limbs to his left leaving the right side intact and thus hiding/covering/obscuring over his trimming to the left. He had no access to a scale large enough to get an exact weight and the reason he bass fished with 20lb was he fished for meat as much as pleasure so that cat got cut and frozen fast.
ETA: He never learned to swim and he said boats made his head spin so he only fished from the banks.
This post was edited on 4/14/23 at 9:50 am
Posted on 4/14/23 at 9:48 am to 225Tyga
I agree with you, that line would have snapped immediately. I’m calling bull on this one.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:17 am to AlxTgr
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And patience
Confucius says: With drag there must be patience, because without patience, drag is not present and neither is fish.
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