My son and I got out on the Chick at about 10 and started bass fishing. Right off put a two lber in the boat off a C-rigged sinko. Switch to a Texas rigged worm and put four more in the boat. My son managed one on a rattle trap. As we left I saw BassBullet and stopped to talk to her. We decided to go try a silver buddy in the Wolf creek in open water out in the lake and caught a couple yellow bass. I was jerking it up and down as usual off the bottom when it got slammed and it just stopped. I pulled up hard thinking for a second I was hung and it started swimming off.emoEek It was something big and did not come up at first. I had a light to midium bass rod with only 12 lb test so I didn't want to break my line. I worked the fish for a while thinking it was a huge drum but evertime I got it coming up it took drag and went back down. Finally it just stopped and came up slowly like a big rock.emoScratch Ryan got the net and when we saw it I knew it beat my best ever cat. Now to some of you guys this is not all that big but up until today my best has been 28 lbs. The one we were looking at I knew beat that one. It would not fit in the net but we got enough of it in it to swing into the boat. It was a huge flathead that tipped the scales at 35 lbs and 10 oz. emoSmile I did not have a camera so we took it back over to BassBullet who did. She said it was a new camera for her so I hope she gets the pictures posted. That was some flathead and it inhaled my silver buddy all the way down into the back of it's mouth. We fished for a little more after that and I managed one more LM on the buddy and we left at 2:15. Great day on the water!emoThumbsup Jmax
Bass trip yeilds my personal best catfish! 1/6/2007
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WLG
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Congrats on the PB cat!!!! Thats a nice Flathead Cant wait to see the pics
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Pointer 78
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Hey Kim....looks like your dog was wanting lunch.
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She would have tried to eat the whole thing. She had already ate 3 of the little bait fish I had snagged on a treble hook. She can make those little bait fish disappear in about 5 seconds.
DHaun
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That's a really nice fish on light line JMax - Way to go! emoThumbsup The biggest flathead I have ever caught was 25lbs so to me thats a fattie. In my experience I think they have stronger shoulders than the blue cats.
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That's one really nice flathead! That one needs to get back in the creek for Polodog to tangle with.emoBigsmile
2jigs
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Nice catfish Jmax!!! It kinda favors you in the faceemoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoUpsmile . If it had on glasses of courseemoUpsmile. emoUpsmile Looks like ya both had the same number of chinsemoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoGeezer emoLaugh
Fishin Fool
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Nice flathead! I'll bet there for a little bit ole' Jmax was seeing his picture of his world record bass on the pages of BASS! Good job guys!
big-inTr19
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Thats a big Flahead Jmax . I too caught my biggest cat bassfishing . A 41 lb flathead at Watts Bar on a powerworm .
Yep, that was one ugly fish. I got a double chin even with out the strain but holding up that one I got to agree with 2jigs, I do have a little catfish in me.emoLaugh It was released right after that second picture and took off in a big boil unharmed and ready to fight again.emoSmile Jmax
2jigs
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I'm with Dhan in that, I think the flatheads put up a much touher fight than the blues or channels. How long did ya fight it?
I felt it was for a while but in all honesty I am going to guess about 8 to 10 minutes give or take a couple. I did not time it and I do remember Ryan got the net ready a couple times just to put it down again to wait. Then he could not get it to stay in the net becuase it was too long and kept falling back out. Nice memory right there.
2jigs
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I bet, any time you have an experience like that with your son they are absolutely priceless. Way to go buddyemoThumbsup emoThumbsup Thats what it's realy all aboutemoToast
rsimms
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Hey Jmax, it's about time you started catching some "real" fish! emoPoke emoLaugh Good job... had to take some effort, skill and patience to that hunk of fish flesh off the bottom with light tackle. Good job. emoWorthy
TennesseeTalker
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Nice poochie .. ugly fish! But it's a whopper! Glad BB was there to take you alls pic.
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Nice fish Jim awesome flattie. Hows come you didn't cradle that thing up in your arms like the big catters do and get some good slime on your nice Ranger jacket?emoLaugh
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O.K. there Rsimms seems to me that I remember the last time we were on the water with you I had to catch you a couple crappie with my silver buddy just so you would have a full mess.emoPoke (Back at ya)
Cheez the thought did occur to me to hold it that way but I must have stoud there for ten minutes waiting for BB to figure out how to use that camera. You hold almost 36 lbs in a curl for 10 minutes out in front of you and it starts to get heavy. I was ready to let it back in the water and I think it was ready to be let go. I didn't have any of TT's slime guard on either.emoLaugh Jmax
Fat Albert
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<font color="#6600ff">It couldn't happen to a nicer guy... way to go... that is one ugly fish.</font>
