68camaro Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 LM Bass fishing today in local reservoir, caught a 3.9lb'er then a 3.75lb Chain Pickerel, both on spinner bait. However third fish-on put up huge fight, it was a big fish and kept making violent runs and diving, it turned my kayak 90 degrees twice so I had to put anchor down. I was on MH rod with 12lb flouro and I had to easing off drag several times so as not to break him off. Literally the fight was several minutes. I never had bass fight this hard, not even smallie or striper. At one point he arched his back above water, I could tell it wasn't a LM, but not sure what. Once I started to subdue fish I realized it was a big fat catfish, I've caught 20-30lb blue catfish and while heavy they don't fight this much. I shook him off lure but I never new cat's put up such a fight. Anyone knowe what type of catfish this could have been. 3 Quote
Super User WRB Posted October 10, 2017 Super User Posted October 10, 2017 Could be a channel, flathead or blue cat they hit lures. What color was the cat and shape of it's tail: < or ( ? Tom Quote
CroakHunter Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 2 hours ago, 68camaro said: LM Bass fishing today in local reservoir, caught a 3.9lb'er then a 3.75lb Chain Pickerel, both on spinner bait. However third fish-on put up huge fight, it was a big fish and kept making violent runs and diving, it turned my kayak 90 degrees twice so I had to put anchor down. I was on MH rod with 12lb flouro and I had to easing off drag several times so as not to break him off. Literally the fight was several minutes. I never had bass fight this hard, not even smallie or striper. At one point he arched his back above water, I could tell it wasn't a LM, but not sure what. Once I started to subdue fish I realized it was a big fat catfish, I've caught 20-30lb blue catfish and while heavy they don't fight this much. I shook him off lure but I never new cat's put up such a fight. Anyone knowe what type of catfish this could have been. Flathead fight hard! Strong head shakes and very powerful. Quote
Super User scaleface Posted October 10, 2017 Super User Posted October 10, 2017 5 hours ago, CroakHunter said: Flathead fight hard! Strong head shakes and very powerful Yeah Flathead pull hard and stay upright .Blues will roll and leave a lot of slime on the line . Was there slime on the line ? Quote
finatic Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 8 hours ago, 68camaro said: LM Bass fishing today in local reservoir, caught a 3.9lb'er then a 3.75lb Chain Pickerel, both on spinner bait. However third fish-on put up huge fight, it was a big fish and kept making violent runs and diving, it turned my kayak 90 degrees twice so I had to put anchor down. I was on MH rod with 12lb flouro and I had to easing off drag several times so as not to break him off. Literally the fight was several minutes. I never had bass fight this hard, not even smallie or striper. At one point he arched his back above water, I could tell it wasn't a LM, but not sure what. Once I started to subdue fish I realized it was a big fat catfish, I've caught 20-30lb blue catfish and while heavy they don't fight this much. I shook him off lure but I never new cat's put up such a fight. Anyone knowe what type of catfish this could have been. I had to laugh when I read this, because a few weeks ago I had a similar fight with a huge fish that I thought was a bass and it turned out to be a 26lb shovelhead. Quote
68camaro Posted October 10, 2017 Author Posted October 10, 2017 5 hours ago, CroakHunter said: Flathead fight hard! Strong head shakes and very powerful. It had very powerful head shakes, I had 5/8 spinner so hook set was strong in side of mouth. 26 minutes ago, scaleface said: Yeah Flathead pull hard and stay upright .Blues will roll and leave a lot of slime on the line . Was there slime on the line ? No slime on line. I am having trouble posting pic but will try after work. Thanks 1 Quote
SWVABass Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 I caught a big blue once while fishing a square bill through timber. That fished never rolled just kept trying to stay on the bottom. Thought it was a stripper at first. 1 Quote
SuperCorona Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 I had the same thing happen with a 11 lb blue a week ago. I pitched a copperteuse big TRD across some hydrilla. Immediately I felt the weight and it went straight down. Thought it was a nice bass burying itself in the weeds. I trolled over the hydrilla, right on top of it. That woke it up and the fight was on. I was using 15 lb braid with 8 lb fluorocarbon leader. All the possible weak points ran through my mind as I was fighting this beast. Finally the big cat rolled to the surface and I got half of him in the net. I'm not a big cat fisherman but that was fun. Quote
Bassin' Brad Posted October 10, 2017 Posted October 10, 2017 3 hours ago, Swbass15 said: I caught a big blue once while fishing a square bill through timber. That fished never rolled just kept trying to stay on the bottom. Thought it was a stripper at first. ☝ Good thing it wasn't, your wife would have been ticked! ?? 1 4 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted October 10, 2017 Global Moderator Posted October 10, 2017 Big flatheads don't generally fight for extended periods, it's just very violent for 5-20 minutes. Big blues are the distance runners that pull lots of line over and over again. Channels will do the same but rarely get over 20 pounds in most areas. I've caught big ones of all 3, blues always fight the longest, flatheads are the most violent and hard to control. If you saw the tail it would be easy to tell. Flatheads have no fork, blues and channels both have forked tails. 1 Quote
Super User bigbill Posted October 10, 2017 Super User Posted October 10, 2017 Cats? Hush puppies, big hush puppies. I gutted a catfish and rolled him across a charcoal fire. That's good eating. 1 Quote
68camaro Posted October 11, 2017 Author Posted October 11, 2017 I am having trouble posting pic but I did look at catfish pics on line and it was a Flathead, the tail was not forked. Supercorona, I was running my spinner over and thru hydrilla. Bluebasser, you are right for about 5 minutes, probably less, the fight was on, I never had to go back and forth adjusting drag so much, I don't target catfish in the lake but hopefully I'll run into another. 1 Quote
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