cat on a roostertail

[njbailes]

went fishing in a couple of creeks over the last two days. pulled out your average brim, perch, and a decent sized red eye, but the most suprising thing is I caught a catfish in the creek with a roostertail. maybe this is common, but I've never heard of it. I was fishing it pretty close to the surface too. I thought by the fight of it, it was a small mouth bass, but when it broke water, i couldnt believe my eyes. I thought it was pretty cool anyways. by the way, cb1340, you got skunked!!

 

[KWoods]

It's not that uncommon.....we use a lot of tiny heads with about a size 10 hook called Trout Magnets for bream and crappie and will average at least one cat per trip, some are in the 5-10 pound catagory. They will hit most anything if they're in the mood. Have fun! emoSmile

 

[SpurHunter]

Cats are opportunistic, and will take live and dead bait if in front of them. Lures look like live bait of course. Bass fisherman report flatheads biting their lures quite often.

 

[salecreekaviator]

I had a similar experience in early May. I was casting a chartreuse rooster tail in about 4 ft of water going after bream or whatever was there. Cast about 60 ft up the shoreline from the dock and got a nice bite the instant it hit the water, it's head broke the water in a kind of half jump. Being a new fisherman and not getting a good look at it I thought I had a small bass or something but then it dove for the bottom and turned out to be a 3lb blue.

 

[Ronnie Garrison]

I had an uncle living in New Port News, VA years ago. I would visit each summer and we would go over the to the Chicohomony River and fish for channel cats with #2 Mepps with a little strip of white pork rind. Fish the out going tide and we would bring home more than we wanted to clean every trip. We caught a few bass and bream but huge numbers of channel cats.