rsimms
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Doug Ringer's wife bought him a fishing trip. But we had a tough time making it happen... we had to postpone twice due to foul weather conditions. I was really worried about a "winter cat trip." You just never know if it's going to be an "On" day, or an "Off" day. Thank goodness, it was "On like Donkey Kong!" emoBigsmile
We fished the Sequoyah community hole(s), surrounded by the constant "Booms" from duck hunters emoEnforce. I was wishing I was in a blind with them at first, until the first cat hit anyway.
We started at the intake and caught a few, including a 27.
About 9 or 9:30 we moved down to EricM territory. It took me a few minutes to figure out the pattern (yes, sometimes you do need to "pattern" catfish). Once I did, it got serious. We were capturing one or two quality fish on virtually every drift. The final, and biggest, fish was an obvious glutton. It didn't fight worth a flip, and as we got it to the boat we saw why. It had a HUGE fish lodged in its throat (see photo below). When the fish ate it, it was probably about a 2.5 or 3 lb. bass. Based on ;level of digestion, it had clearly been lodged in the cat's throat a long time. I'd say a week or so. Yet the glutton STILL wanted to eat our cut bait offering. We pulled the lodged fish out of his throat before release. (see photo).
On scales the fish weighed 27, but that was after we pulled the bass out of it's throat so I'm calling it a 30. emoRolleyes
Doug decided he wanted to quit on an upnote, so we left after that fish and "left 'em bitin'." Love me some cold weather cats! emoThumbsup
We fished the Sequoyah community hole(s), surrounded by the constant "Booms" from duck hunters emoEnforce. I was wishing I was in a blind with them at first, until the first cat hit anyway.
We started at the intake and caught a few, including a 27.
About 9 or 9:30 we moved down to EricM territory. It took me a few minutes to figure out the pattern (yes, sometimes you do need to "pattern" catfish). Once I did, it got serious. We were capturing one or two quality fish on virtually every drift. The final, and biggest, fish was an obvious glutton. It didn't fight worth a flip, and as we got it to the boat we saw why. It had a HUGE fish lodged in its throat (see photo below). When the fish ate it, it was probably about a 2.5 or 3 lb. bass. Based on ;level of digestion, it had clearly been lodged in the cat's throat a long time. I'd say a week or so. Yet the glutton STILL wanted to eat our cut bait offering. We pulled the lodged fish out of his throat before release. (see photo).
On scales the fish weighed 27, but that was after we pulled the bass out of it's throat so I'm calling it a 30. emoRolleyes
Doug decided he wanted to quit on an upnote, so we left after that fish and "left 'em bitin'." Love me some cold weather cats! emoThumbsup
