Rich Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 After a long wait for some warm nights, the channel cats are running the local tribs. This weekend won't be great , but next week ill be back into never sleep mode as ill be on these guys whenever im not at work. Lol First fish of season for me 14lbs and eric's first a fat 11. Lots of smaller ones and bullheads biting. No need to draw attention to one trib. ANY lake erie trib with some depth and muddy flats has these guys in it, and they grow well over 20lbs in all of them. Get on em. They were taking cut up spottail shiners and a few hits on cut sucker meat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 That stringer has good eats Rich. You need to take a vid of cleaning them. Nailing their heads to a board,and ripping the skin off. Been awhile since I had whiskers for a dinner,but cleaning them was a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigger Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Thread of the day. Thanks Rich, some sweet cats right there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 That stringer has good eats Rich. You need to take a vid of cleaning them. Nailing their heads to a board,and ripping the skin off. Been awhile since I had whiskers for a dinner,but cleaning them was a blast. My grandpa used to do it that way. He nailed them to a tree and took pliers to each side. He loved bullheads, as is where my love for their sweet spring fillets comes from. He always said "a fish you can fillet without a knife is meant to be eaten" I however live in an apartment, with a clean girlfriend who wouldn't appreciate me nailing catfish to boards in the kitchen. So I do it the pansy way and cut the head off, then fillet like a perch. Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 I however live in an apartment, with a clean girlfriend who wouldn't appreciate me nailing catfish to boards in the kitchen. So I do it the pansy way and cut the head off, then fillet like a perch. Haha Condo living aint no different.LOL Memories of yer grandpa was cool. Had an uncle that was the same. I was going to fillet a walleye,he yells out,just gut it and scale,dont waste it.LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Great catch!! I should figure out where they run in my area. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxie Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Here kitty, kitty, kitty..... Nice haul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Gotta love those big cats Rich!!!!!,only a face a mother could love though!!! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Thanks everyone. I'm glad there are others who come for the fishing related posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr blizzard Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Never caught one, but would being interesting watching as mentioned a video on how to fillet one sounds like a bit of a process, nice catch, glad u had a great day fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayzak15 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Never caught one, but would being interesting watching as mentioned a video on how to fillet one sounds like a bit of a process, nice catch, glad u had a great day fishing. This...I've never caught one, but they do look challenging to clean. Nice catch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotsky Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 No need to draw attention to one trib. ANY lake erie trib with some depth and muddy flats has these guys in it, and they grow well over 20lbs in all of them. I've heard a lot about Erie catfish run. What about lake Ontario trips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I've heard a lot about Erie catfish run. What about lake Ontario trips? I know when i lived in the hammer, we got them like crazy at the mouth of the desjardins and up into valley inn, was good til the beginning of june. I have no experience fishing them on any other lake O tribs, but after looking at the mouth of bronte i'd bet it's really good off that pier at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ironmaker Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 OK Rich, when are you available? Lets go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 OK Rich, when are you available? Lets go. PM sent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Thanks for sharing Rich, great pics:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Great report Rich. Hey, the last fish has a serious overbite. Look at him....he could be cast in the Simpsons and wouldn't look out of place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headhunter Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Sweet kitties there BBR! Thanks for posting... gotta be a fun fight for sure!!! HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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