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Post by qbert on May 26, 2010 0:37:43 GMT -4
Got my first ever catfish on a rapala today. I've caught them on senkos occasionly, but never on a rapala. I caught it with a J9 in hot tiger. I was pretty disappointed at first since I thought I had a huge bass, but at least I got to fight something!!
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Post by fishing_in_israel on May 26, 2010 1:11:38 GMT -4
Got my first ever catfish on a rapala today. I've caught them on senkos occasionly, but never on a rapala. I caught it with a J9 in hot tiger. I was pretty disappointed at first since I thought I had a huge bass, but at least I got to fight something!! That's great! How big was the cat? Were you twitching the J9 on the surface or doing a slow retrieve? I really have to get myself off up to the Sea of Galilee soon and try for catfish with Rapalas..... |
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Post by catfreak on May 26, 2010 13:41:13 GMT -4
As my name would imply, I'm a huge fan of catfish and I've been fortunate enough to catch quite a few on rapalas. I know exactly what you mean. You feel that tug and it takes off and you think you have an absolute monster on your line. Gotta love the fight a cat puts up.
If you want to try to catch more just try to find a school of them somewhere, usually near a dam. Then try to figure out exactly what depth the school is sitting at and match your rapala to it. A cat will not usually shy away from hitting a rap.
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Post by qbert on May 26, 2010 18:29:40 GMT -4
I was just retrieving it slowly and he hit. Thanks for the info catfreak, I may have to give that a try.
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Post by walleye270 on May 26, 2010 23:03:14 GMT -4
I have caught quite a few catfish on shad raps and deeper diving lures. I was fishing tonight and caught a really nice one on a size 7 skitter pop  I have heard about topwater for Wels Catfish, but not catfish around here. That is a definate first for me. I thought I had a huge bucketmouth on and it turns out to be ole whisker face. Oh well, the fight was good. On another note, I caught around a dozen bass, a crappie, a white bass, and a bunch of bluegill tonight. I caught my first 6 bass on 7 casts. |
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Post by catfreak on May 27, 2010 4:10:13 GMT -4
Yea. I've never caught a cat on a skitter pop. I might need to try that. I usually catch them in the summer on an F-3 or an F-5, usually in gold. When they go down deep, a fat rap is always a good choice as well.
We have a lot of large smallies in the same areas that I fish the cats. So for the first couple seconds you don't know if you have a cat or a huge smallmouth. Thats until the first headshake. Headshakes are always a good sign of a cat on the line.
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Post by muskiehunter on May 27, 2010 13:54:11 GMT -4
I know guys who have caught catfish in 80 feet of water with spoons while fishing for Salmon & Trout  |
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Post by qbert on May 27, 2010 16:10:16 GMT -4
Skitter pop cat??? I thought it was strange one came up for my jointed, but I would have never guessed a skitter pop!! That's why I love fishing, you never know what the hell might happen
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Post by qbert on Jun 2, 2010 17:39:40 GMT -4
Actually caught 2 more cats on rapalas today(F-9 YP, and BCSD). Also caught bass on a special SP7 I recently got from Jason in Chrome SFC, and my biggest perch ever on a custom J9 from Steve in his pink panther pattern.
Also caught a few bass with a senko, wacky style.
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Post by catfreak on Jun 3, 2010 3:04:27 GMT -4
Nice. Congrats.
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Post by catfreak on Jun 7, 2010 10:47:40 GMT -4
Had a first with cats yesterday. Got my largest channel ever on a size 4 mepps. He went just over 10 lbs. All in all pretty sweet to get my largest cat and my only cat on a mepps in one shot.
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Post by Compre on Jun 7, 2010 14:41:33 GMT -4
It seems cats like to take on everything, I caught one using 1/4oz rooster tail and just last weekend using a Yum 7.5" ribbontail. I hope that I'll can catch one using a rapala.
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Post by jagermeistered on Jun 21, 2010 0:24:11 GMT -4
Had a first with cats yesterday. Got my largest channel ever on a size 4 mepps. He went just over 10 lbs. All in all pretty sweet to get my largest cat and my only cat on a mepps in one shot. A Spinner? Rapalas to? Haha Man, I always thought Catfish were always on the bottom sucking up garbage. Never knew the fed off the top. |
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Post by rocfish on Jul 12, 2010 11:30:55 GMT -4
I've caught more than a few Channel Cats on Rapalas fishing Kentucky Lake over the years. You think they're primarily scent feeders, but they seem to show predator instincts when a Shad Rap or DT comes wobbling by. Mine too have come while fishing for bass, and I also don't mind the fight of a heavy cat as a diversion, but I must admit it is a pain having to stop fishing to re-tie because they rolled and wrapped themselves in my line, and slimed and ruined the end three feet of it. Oh well, that's fishing I guess!
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Post by casey10 on Aug 8, 2010 12:24:03 GMT -4
I guess I get to join the catfish on a rapala club  Caught this guy trolling a J9 silver/black yesterday in about 4' of water. A real surprise!!!PS Note the red hooks, this is the J9 I had imbedded in my hand last week and cut the hooks Replaced with red ones  |
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Aug 8, 2010 14:12:53 GMT -4
I guess I get to join the catfish on a rapala club Caught this guy trolling a J9 silver/black yesterday in about 4' of water. A real surprise!!!PS Note the red hooks, this is the J9 I had imbedded in my hand last week and cut the hooks Replaced with red ones I didn't replace my hooks with red ones but did catch this catfish on a Rattlin' Rap 5:  |
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Post by casey10 on Aug 8, 2010 17:19:35 GMT -4
Nice fish Nigel It looks a little bigger than the one I caught ;D  |
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Aug 8, 2010 21:27:09 GMT -4
Nice fish Nigel It looks a little bigger than the one I caught ;D Only a little... It's not the size that counts but how you catch 'em.... (noticed your saucy Tee-shirt) ;D |
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Post by Tom on Aug 9, 2010 15:49:52 GMT -4
you can bet on skitterpops, catfish love poppers, perfect example is my spod story, if you haven't read it, go to the original lure suggestion page, i wrote a detailed description of what happened.
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Post by walter on Aug 26, 2010 18:35:35 GMT -4
ok, it looks like i'm getting a lot of competition  ;D ;D yes, cats are really great fighters. and it's a sad things that smaller ones only rarely hit lures (wels cats usually do, but bullheads don't) |
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