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miscellaneous dinks caught at alder and cedar
saw a guy catching fish, turns out it was coz.
i thought it was some high school kid.
how old is coz anyway??
i was going to go over and say, hey kid- you fish pretty good, you know??
so on my way out the door at cedar i lob a cast down the bank , from the air pump to the drain structure.
i get WACKED-- boil, splash , everything.
pulling like the holy grail, i finally think i got a ten pound bass on.
i have never had line peeled of my baitcaster like that.
i'm trying to keep good pressure on without bringing it close while its still green.
i go in the drink, up to my thighs, praying it doesnt jump or break my line.
i finally see it.
my hearrt falls like a bowling ball.
catfish.
ask coz how big it was.
i was too flipped out on adrenaline.
15 #'s maybe, bigger , i dont know, too much drama , plus being a cat, i wasn't too psyched about the weight.
was a great fight tho, great show on the fish's part.
coz lent me some needle nose and we turned her loose
i am just glad i got to see it.
if it had broken off i would have wondered for the rest of my life if it was the big one.
fought just like a big bass.
i kept waiting for the jump, at every pause in the run, when the big'ns like to break water
Last edited by bigjeffie (May-01-09 4:25PM)
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NICE!!! Coz called me to tell me...I wish I had seen it!
Was it a channel cat? If so, he was 9 pounds 4-5 years ago. He could be 12 pounds today....or 15!
Nothing wrong with hooking a catfish!
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I am 30...but thanks for the youthful consideration! Nice to meet you...happy to help out. It was a monster cat. Black back, huge belly. Easy 12+lbs.
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Pacemaker wrote:
NICE!!! Coz called me to tell me...I wish I had seen it!
Was it a channel cat? If so, he was 9 pounds 4-5 years ago. He could be 12 pounds today....or 15!
Nothing wrong with hooking a catfish!
Could it be that Cedar only has one cat in the whole lake? If so, this very same fish has given several people on this board nice, explosive fights.
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i was burning a rattle trap along the rip rap, about 3' off the rocks, tight as i could get, ripping it above the algae, and that moose caught it.
never let it be said a catfish is not a sportfish
that hog was pure athlete
i wonder if that was the big fish i was hitting tuesday, and losing after a few seconds. same area
andy was talking about a big wake sunday night
i saw it too, noticed him come back to look at it
maybe all are related
hard to say for sure
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Haha, heck yeah bigJ...you are the man
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