On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:08:50 -0500, BAR wrote:

Red Herring wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:18:17 -0500, BAR wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:

And smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, white and hybrid bass. Along with
trout, bluegill, crappie, huge catfish, drum, etc.
I love cat fishing. Around these parts, the cats tend to be channel
cats on the small side - say, less than ten pounds or so. We also
have horned pout which can run up to 3/4 pounds sometimes.
Spent my high school years fishing the Potomac off of Ft. Belvior for
catfish. We would fish for channel cats and what we called mud cats. Use
worms to catch perch, back hook the perch to catch the cats. We were
fishing for that elusive 25 pounder. And, we allways had a case of our
favorite beverage along to sip while waiting for the poles to be pulled
over.

I was fishing Lake Marion last summer with a guide out of Santee -
great guy, real knowledgable, put me on a channel cat that was 30
pounds easy. Used a commercial blood bait - we must have caught 10
fish that day, not one under 20 pounds.

Good eatin' too.

You folks have carp down there?
We have lots of Carp in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Not much for a
fight. People actually eat the Carp even after knowing what garbage the
Carp eat.


That's a coincidence. I used to have a spot off Ft Belvoir where I'd anchor
and use salted eel for catfish. They weren't worth a damn to eat, but it
was fun to take nieces and nephews out there and let them catch fish. I'd
tell them we had to kiss 'em goodbye when we threw them back. They had
little problem with that, after I showed them how, but there momma's didn't
think it was too cool.
--
Red Herring

The place we fished was on the south side of Dogue Creek where it meets
the Potomac. Lots of moving water. When the paper freighters heading to
the up river you had to get everything off the beach due to the wake
hitting you about 5 minutes after the freighter passed.

Heh - largest redfish I ever caught was in a similar situation.

Caught is a correct way to phrase it, but I didn't use a pole, line,
hooks or reels. :)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:08:50 -0500, BAR wrote:

Red Herring wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:18:17 -0500, BAR wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:53:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:

And smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, white and hybrid bass. Along
with
trout, bluegill, crappie, huge catfish, drum, etc.
I love cat fishing. Around these parts, the cats tend to be channel
cats on the small side - say, less than ten pounds or so. We also
have horned pout which can run up to 3/4 pounds sometimes.
Spent my high school years fishing the Potomac off of Ft. Belvior for
catfish. We would fish for channel cats and what we called mud cats.
Use
worms to catch perch, back hook the perch to catch the cats. We were
fishing for that elusive 25 pounder. And, we allways had a case of our
favorite beverage along to sip while waiting for the poles to be pulled
over.

I was fishing Lake Marion last summer with a guide out of Santee -
great guy, real knowledgable, put me on a channel cat that was 30
pounds easy. Used a commercial blood bait - we must have caught 10
fish that day, not one under 20 pounds.

Good eatin' too.

You folks have carp down there?
We have lots of Carp in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Not much for
a
fight. People actually eat the Carp even after knowing what garbage the
Carp eat.


That's a coincidence. I used to have a spot off Ft Belvoir where I'd
anchor
and use salted eel for catfish. They weren't worth a damn to eat, but it
was fun to take nieces and nephews out there and let them catch fish.
I'd
tell them we had to kiss 'em goodbye when we threw them back. They had
little problem with that, after I showed them how, but there momma's
didn't
think it was too cool.
--
Red Herring

The place we fished was on the south side of Dogue Creek where it meets
the Potomac. Lots of moving water. When the paper freighters heading to
the up river you had to get everything off the beach due to the wake
hitting you about 5 minutes after the freighter passed.

Heh - largest redfish I ever caught was in a similar situation.

Caught is a correct way to phrase it, but I didn't use a pole, line,
hooks or reels. :)

We used to catch catfish in Clear Lake, CA by hand. They would spawn in the
tires used a dock bumpers. The Sacramento Delta has millions of tasty
catfish. White cats. about 3/4#. We get some larger yellow cats, but they
just do not taste that good. Mostly we catch them on Freshwater clams and
sardines.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:19:07 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:




We used to catch catfish in Clear Lake, CA by hand. They would spawn in the
tires used a dock bumpers. The Sacramento Delta has millions of tasty
catfish. White cats. about 3/4#. We get some larger yellow cats, but they
just do not taste that good. Mostly we catch them on Freshwater clams and
sardines.

Was surprised to read in a local paper down there once, maybe '88,
that a local caught a catfish of about 100 pounds. Can't remember
exactly what lake it was unless I'm reminded, but it was real close to
LA. Maybe it'll come to me.

--Vic