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re: Fished the Mississippi River Saturday and again today
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:37 am to fillmoregandt
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:37 am to fillmoregandt
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Fishing in the main channel? Oxbow? Chute?
Main channel. Current was strange today. Usually cast upriver and let the current pull your line downriver until it comes to rest but the current had an undertow today and it was running upriver when the line got deep.
I've seen this before many times in the summer months.
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:46 am to celltech1981
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.flats dont have that dark of skin
Every catfish identification chart I've ever seen shows flatheads to be medium to dark brown in color, often mottled with some yellowish spotting, very unlike the blue, white or channel cats out there that are very light to varying shades of gray.
I'm sure they are called other things in other places by the locals.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 4:53 am to gumbo2176
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Main channel. Current was strange today. Usually cast upriver and let the current pull your line downriver until it comes to rest but the current had an undertow today and it was running upriver when the line got deep.
Most likely a rising tide with the downstream flow skating over the top.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:54 am to gumbo2176
gotcha, I've caught them in a lot of different shades. just never dark enough to be surprised by it. I didn't know if you meant a different type of fish since every parish calls them something different
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:56 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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Yellow cat
i had a buddy tell me he was tearing the yellow cats up so I drove an hour to fish with him and they were all those lil bullhead/mud cats
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:15 am to celltech1981
Growing up , we always called those mudcats pollywogs. Yeah, I have never known them to be any good.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:23 am to prplngldtigr
I thought he meant flatties. I was a little upset but had fun drinking beer and catching them all the same
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:33 am to prplngldtigr
Mud cat on a trot line stretched along a bluff bank is the ticket for big ops. I cut the fins off the sides so they can swallow them easier.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:43 am to gumbo2176
my buddies have a yearly tournament, last weekend it produced over 2200 pounds of spotted cat(flathead), blue cat are thrown back/aren't counted, they estimate around 1400 lbs were thrown back. They also caught an albino catfish
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:14 am to ZeekFreak
Gumbo if you can get your hands on some live bait would be money on those flatheads
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:50 am to ZeekFreak
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my buddies have a yearly tournament, last weekend it produced over 2200 pounds of spotted cat(flathead), blue cat are thrown back/aren't counted, they estimate around 1400 lbs were thrown back. They also caught an albino catfish
we probably know some of the same people; only Mamou natives have these types of fishing rodeo's
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:51 am to lsuson
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Gumbo if you can get your hands on some live bait would be money on those flatheads
I've seen guys fish with live freshwater river shrimp and crawfish for bait.
One of the best baits is cut-bait, especially menhaden (pogies) if you can find it. Not many places carry it since it is considered a trash fish. I called Schaefer's in Bucktown a while back and they handle it, but it comes frozen in 50 lb. boxes, and that is way more than I want to deal with.
Cut up freshwater eel works well too, but I haven't caught one of them lately, but use to catch 2-3 almost every time I fished a few years ago.
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 11:52 am
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:57 am to good_2_geaux
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only Mamou natives have these types of fishing rodeo's
Never been north of Alexandria?
That's all they do on the Red in Ok / Tx
Posted on 7/12/18 at 12:05 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
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That's all they do on the Red in Ok / Tx
That's what I was going to say. This thread is reminding me of being home in Oklahoma.
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