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Post by fishing_in_israel on Apr 4, 2010 11:47:17 GMT -4
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Post by walter on Apr 4, 2010 15:16:31 GMT -4
that is a wels catfish... and usually only some models of rapala are used for wels catfish (shad and fat rap, jointed 13, magnum), since most of the newer models aren't strong enough and break
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Apr 4, 2010 22:55:23 GMT -4
that is a wels catfish... and usually only some models of rapala are used for wels catfish (shad and fat rap, jointed 13, magnum), since most of the newer models aren't strong enough and break The Magnum, or better still the Barra Magnum make sense - they are tough! BTW, the Magnum Stainless Steel Inox, what exactly does the stainless steel part refer to? |
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Post by fishfingers007 on Apr 5, 2010 6:14:48 GMT -4
 stainless steel models are completely stainless hence dont rust in the salt water, but i hear many say it flakes off, but nice robust model
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Post by cdj711 on Apr 5, 2010 7:59:42 GMT -4
people here have been using DRFR-7, RR-8 and -9, and recently DT16 for wels (european catfish) in the strong current of the dam power outlets.
the down deep held quite well, but on ristos and DTs they were losing fish for pulling out the lip of the crank.
some people use a piece of 100 lbs mono through the ring in the lip and around the wire of the first treble on ristos and DTs.
still, one rapala lost for 1 fish, but at 50 to 100 lbs per fish, this doesnt hurt that much ...
best,
wolfgang
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Post by Fishooked on Apr 5, 2010 10:07:31 GMT -4
I think I caught a brown bullhead on a Bass Pro crankbait some years ago, but I rarely ever catch them or target them specifically...
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Post by happyshad on Apr 5, 2010 11:14:51 GMT -4
I have caught numerous Catfish on cranks - but usually I am targeting another species.
What a tasty bonus it is to catch @ a 5 to 10 pound Flathead in the Spring when the water is cleaner.
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Post by qbert on Apr 5, 2010 14:53:29 GMT -4
Have caught a few cats on senkos but never on crankbaits.
Today I had a pickerel bite on a piece of bread right in front of me, but come off. Also have twice seen someone catch bass on hot dogs. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself!!
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Apr 5, 2010 21:32:20 GMT -4
Have caught a few cats on senkos but never on crankbaits. Today I had a pickerel bite on a piece of bread right in front of me, but come off. Also have twice seen someone catch bass on hot dogs. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself!! Were they twitching the hot dogs or 'popping' them on the surface?  I remember reading in a UK fishing mag about a guy who tried all the baits and tricks he knew of the catch a fat trout he could see under a bridge over a small river. After trying his last trick and the trout not showing any interest in anything the guy tried he finally gave up, tossed his butt end (cigarette) in the water which the trout promptly rose and took! That's fishing....  |
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Post by bacon on Apr 5, 2010 22:34:40 GMT -4
have heard of guys cutting hotdogs in quarters lengthways to make slug-o type pieces and use them, would imagine it would work, maybe not well, but some people feed hotdogs to there pet fish once they get to big, cheaper then buying minnow all the time. let a pet fish go in a pond or lake, and when ever you want to visit them, just cast out your hotdog. LOL
bacon
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Post by walter on Apr 6, 2010 19:41:27 GMT -4
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Post by jagermeistered on Apr 22, 2010 16:18:31 GMT -4
Never heard of cranks being used for cats. Back in Winnipeg on the red river you would use rotten chicken livers and catch them all day long.
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Post by bulldog21 on Apr 22, 2010 19:13:34 GMT -4
I have. I was dragging a sr-5 along the bottom of a river and I caught a 12" catfish.
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Post by catfreak on Apr 28, 2010 2:29:18 GMT -4
I catch a few channel cats in the summer using an F-7 floating in gold. I also caught a nice channel while running a big fat rap near a hydro electric outlet of a dam. I was fishing for walleyes and thought I had a monster on. That was a pretty big surprise.
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Post by kajikin on Feb 18, 2011 5:21:17 GMT -4
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Post by Fishooked on Feb 18, 2011 23:09:42 GMT -4
I always thought they were bottom feeders but never realized how voracious they are. I guess big cats aren't getting big by sifting through sludge lol
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Feb 19, 2011 2:16:31 GMT -4
I always thought they were bottom feeders but never realized how voracious they are. I guess big cats aren't getting big by sifting through sludge lol Have you never seen the National Geographic episode about the catfish in that big Spanish river? Very interesting. Those wells catfish don't bother waiting for something to die first...... |
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Feb 19, 2011 2:19:50 GMT -4
I should have posted this last year but forgot - sorry (trying to 'update my threads'):  [African] Catfish on an RNR-5 |
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Post by silverbellies on Feb 20, 2011 10:37:30 GMT -4
On Big Mac here n Nebraska, during the summer a suspended kitty bite appears. You can catch 20-50 cats from 3-10 pound trolling taildancers or #7-9 glass shad raps. With the way a cat will roll, a taildancer can take only about 10 fish before the fish will "un roll" the metal skeleton of the bait.
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Apr 1, 2011 16:24:18 GMT -4
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Post by milan174 on Jan 6, 2013 6:36:24 GMT -4
we, in Serbia catch wels catfish on crankbaits, but the best models are some that are not produced anymore...usually cranckbaits works well on smaler rivers, or some lakes, we use sfr, fr, rr, sr, dt...and often smaler models can give biger cats then big models
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Post by walter on Feb 13, 2013 19:11:56 GMT -4
we, in Serbia catch wels catfish on crankbaits, but the best models are some that are not produced anymore...usually cranckbaits works well on smaler rivers, or some lakes, we use sfr, fr, rr, sr, dt...and often smaler models can give biger cats then big models  i agree. especially old down deep rattlin' fat rap, or fat raps, they are real catfish killers!!! |
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Post by redbohica42812 on Mar 3, 2013 13:04:31 GMT -4
I pick up an occasional channel catfish in the local waterways (northcentral PA) on Husky Jerks, original & jointed floaters and sometimes shallow Shad Raps. They'll run around 10 - to (so far)- 22 inches. The most memorable was a small 9-inch brown bullhead that hit a Jointed Shad Rap (JSR-5). This was a legitimate hook-up as the bullhead had both trebles in its mouth! This is the first time I've ever had a bullhead take an artificial in 40+ years of fishing.  I can't get an image to post on here, so for those of you that are wondering what a brown bullhead is, go to Wikipedia; it will pull up. |
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Post by walter on Mar 3, 2013 17:42:59 GMT -4
i got a brown bullhead on a small spinner a couple of years ago... small, but it pulled!!!
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Post by matson103 on Mar 4, 2013 5:52:11 GMT -4
I catch a cat or 2 usually in late spring on floater or jointed
Black bullheads pretty cool. They only run a couple pounds
But they give a decent fight the first one i caught i tried to
Lip him like a bass not to smart as he crunched my thumb
Supriseing the hell out of me
Thanks Bill
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Post by unipsychofishman on Mar 4, 2013 15:44:11 GMT -4
Coolest I ever saw on an artificial was a bullhead catfish my brother caught in a small stream on a zara puppy topwater walk-the-dog lure. It was pretty unexpected.
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