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Fished the Mississippi River Saturday and again today
Posted on 7/11/18 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 7/11/18 at 5:07 pm
I got the wife out there for some easy fishing on Saturday and she caught 2 Channel cats as did I as far as keepers and we tossed back at least 7-8 that were just too small.
I went out this morning by myself and got 1 nice Channel cat about 6 lbs. and 2 real nice flatheads that both went around 10 lbs. each, and again at least a dozen or so tossed back because they were too small.
The belly meat on those flatheads is huge and I'm going to cook it up tonight for dinner.
Earthworms from my compost pile and 50 count bait shrimp were used as bait.
I went out this morning by myself and got 1 nice Channel cat about 6 lbs. and 2 real nice flatheads that both went around 10 lbs. each, and again at least a dozen or so tossed back because they were too small.
The belly meat on those flatheads is huge and I'm going to cook it up tonight for dinner.
Earthworms from my compost pile and 50 count bait shrimp were used as bait.
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Posted on 7/11/18 at 5:09 pm to gumbo2176
Hope you were upriver of Baton Rouge.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 5:17 pm to JohnWicksDawg
Nah, downriver of N.O. near the Braithwaite area.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:06 pm to JohnWicksDawg
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Hope you were upriver of Baton Rouge.
Mississippi river is actually a very very clean water way. The volume of water dilutes any real pollution concerns. While most people incorrectly associate turbidity and water clarity with pollution, there are not in any way correlated.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:18 pm to gumbo2176
Do you post videos on YouTube fishing the Mississippi in NOLA?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:31 pm to sta4ever
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Do you post videos on YouTube fishing the Mississippi in NOLA?
Oh, hell no. I don't even know how to post pics in threads much less videos. Way over my learning curve.
I'm 65 and lucky I can do the things I can do on these damn things.
This post was edited on 7/11/18 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:35 pm to gumbo2176
My wife freaked out when she saw the remnants of the flatheads I caught. She had never seen that type catfish and with their wide, flat heads, dark skin and the size of the ones I caught had her high fiving me.
The belly meat alone from the 2 flatheads I caught will be more than enough to feed us tonight.
The belly meat alone from the 2 flatheads I caught will be more than enough to feed us tonight.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:37 pm to gumbo2176
When you say flathead, is that the same as a blue cat?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:40 pm to gumbo2176
Yellow cats or ops? I'm confused....flats dont have that dark of skin
Edit: or dark enough skin to surprise somebody who has seen blue cats before haha
Lik these? Caught in clear north ms water
Edit: or dark enough skin to surprise somebody who has seen blue cats before haha
Lik these? Caught in clear north ms water
This post was edited on 7/11/18 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 7/11/18 at 6:47 pm to celltech1981
Looks like ops to me.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 7:12 pm to Crocc
Ops/flatheads are the same though right? I've caught the same at Toledo and they called them ops
Posted on 7/11/18 at 7:32 pm to gumbo2176
Man, that sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. I need to find some access to the river up here in MS and give that a try! Do you use any particularly heavy tackle or what?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 7:47 pm to celltech1981
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Ops/flatheads are the same though right? I've caught the same at Toledo and they called them ops
Yep. Yellow cat, tabby cat, Opelousas, flathead, all the same fish.
The confusing one is government cat. There’s a lot of different species getting called that.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 7:57 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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Yep. Yellow cat, tabby cat, Opelousas, flathead, all the same fish.
Coonasses also call the Goochons?
Goo-shawns with the w being silent.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 8:41 pm to gumbo2176
Fishing in the main channel? Oxbow? Chute?
Posted on 7/11/18 at 8:48 pm to Homey the Clown
Nah, yella or op.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 9:02 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Goo- jawhn ( Jean like Jean Lafitte)is what us coonasses call yellow cats, flat heads, Opelousas cats.
They are dark, almost yellowish-green. Big, wide, flat heads with huge mouths.
Best eatin catfish there is
They are dark, almost yellowish-green. Big, wide, flat heads with huge mouths.
Best eatin catfish there is
This post was edited on 7/11/18 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 7/11/18 at 9:27 pm to gumbo2176
They used to make us cut the belly meat off the catfish at a restaurant I worked out. If I didn’t eat fried catfish belly sammiches every other day.
Posted on 7/11/18 at 11:24 pm to Spankum
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I need to find some access to the river up here in MS and give that a try!
Where are you?
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:34 am to Spankum
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Man, that sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. I need to find some access to the river up here in MS and give that a try! Do you use any particularly heavy tackle or what?
Nothing real heavy duty. I have a couple of 6-7 ft. Ugly Sticks with medium size spinning reels mounted to them. As far as rigging, I use 30 lb. test 3 oz. lead sinkers on the end of the line with a loop tied off about 2 ft. above the sinker with a #6 hook looped on it.
Cast upriver, let the current work the line out from shore about straight out from where you're sitting and then just sit back and wait. This is nothing but tight-line fishing.
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