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Well something went wrong with my saltyfreshsd account, got logged out and no password reset emails so back to my old forum name. Went up to Hodges yesterday morning. This time brought some bait so I could toss out a catfish rod while I bass fished. Ended up with 10 cats, 2 bass and a carp. Here is ...

Small hook like size 4. Chunk of shrimp, no weight. Cast it out and leave the bail open, watch the line. Simple enough. The stocked cats just make laps in the local lakes.... Use two rods if you can... 8-12# gear

From September of 2021. We were soaking bait for carp. I was using shrimp...

Why yes, I am sorting my old photo files.

One local creek has plenty of bullheads, but never encountered a bigger cat after some 15 years of scratching around.

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Same spot a year later. At first I thought it was the same fish, but it was a nearly two inches shorter ...

Fresh over frozen if you can

While fishing for bass at Lake Murray, this cat decided my underspin looked like something good to eat. I wanted to get a
pic or two and get it back in the water. I should have took my time as it was not easy to hold up with one hand for a pic and
quickly glanced at the scale which my arm was ...

Just a pic of my third cat I have caught while fishing for bass at Lake Murray. This one gobbled up a brush hog. It took about 20 seconds
as I was thinking it was a nice bass, but soon realized it was probably a cat. This was the smallest of the 3 and weighed 6.75lbs.
The point east of the boat dock ...

A 40lb channel cat fish would be an extremely rare catch. A 40lb catfish would more likely be a blue catfish or a flathead catfish.

Thought I would put this in here. It was caught on a BFS combo plastic worm 6 lb test. Don't have a scale for over 15 lbs.

Careful what you post… bluegill live or dead is illegal to use as bait in public waters in Ca except imperial valley. Since you slay the MPA probably, doesn’t matter haha. Nice cats by the way..

Me at diamond valley. Caught in the Rock quarry area and 8 more just like em. 13.5 and a 13.8. Twins! Lol

I just found the site and wanted to get things going again. I got this nice red ear sunfish at lake 5 on a night crawler.

I got to the lake about 6:30am, caught five bass real quick, all males cruising the bank, so i thought I would try for a few bluegill.
Caught six nice ones .
I’ll try to post the pictures of bluegill.

Lately I have been visiting Santee Lakes and catching bass, but also watching the newly hatched bluegill grow from one inch to more than three inches. They always seem to be feeding on heavy concentrations of freshwater plankton and also on hatching bugs in the heat of the day. They are usually ...

A few red ear !!

It's officially a pattern at this point! :D

Really fun panfishing again today and upped gear to 6 lb. braid with 6 lb. leader, found the fish in the same areas. Targeting around 15 to 18 feet deep on nightcrawlers at the outer edge of the brushlines, similar to Friday's catch but added a fat 2.2 ...

Last week after a year of forced hiatus, I finally got out fishing and had a good day. But it only gets better, because this week I got to share it with and old friend. Like last week, it was a short day of about 3 1/2 hours. I always feel pressure to catch some fish when someone goes with me, but ...

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Coppernose

The kids have been ready for another trip since we did so well @ Hodges a couple of months ago. I've been hearing the bluegill bite was on @ Otay so I thought we would give it another try. I say another try as I've taken the kids here a few times and we never seem to have a good day. My son labeled ...