no pics no proof

I was hoping you�d say that...


I didn�t do much but fight the Fish. I have a friend who is a Catfish Expert. He let me tag along and caught it on my birthday, Dec. 4, a couple years back. The scales gave us trouble. We couldn�t lift it high enough. Scale hit 76 lbs but the tail was still on floor of boat. I�ve always just said 80. This doesn�t mean I�m a good cat fisherman, just that I know good folks.



He and I smiled for the camera, we put him back in water and away he swam.

Oh, and I weigh 270-ish to put the pic in scale.

heck yeah thats a man ! guntersville?

I remember when you caught that

Guntersville.
My friend has electronics down to a science. The river was rolling. There was a hump. �Look,� he said. �There are 3 big catfish behind the hump.� We threw out and hooked up in 20-30 minutes. We also caught a 20 lber and a 7 lber.

This. I'm getting sick from all the pics I see from my buddies back in Texas. The Big Blue Season is about to start.

Not to hijack the thread, but a really big blue is on my bucket list. I caught a flathead that weighted 40 lbs on the nose, but have never tied into a big blue. I let the 40 go but wish I would have kept it to put on the wall. I'd like a 40+ flattie and a 60+ blue for the wall.

I�ve caught a really good blue on a trot line on Lay before. We used to run them in the stick ups in Shelby shores. He had to be 45 or so.

My goal is to kill a 130-140" buck early this year and take the pressure off so that I can start looking for 10+ bed fish mid-January, early Feb when we get those first 3-4 high 70 days. Biggest females are always the first to move up. I always feel obligated to hunt if the season is open and the rut is going on, if I havent already killed a good one.

Try doing that without your buddy and his $40K catfish rig

But seriously PM me the numbers, pretty sure I know the spot but just incase I don't

You�re dead right.
Couldn�t have done it without my buddy. Would never have been on my radar without my buddy.

That whole river system is a catfish gold mine! I'd hope to plan a charter with Phil king or ole Jeff bridge's and just learn. I'd more less just pick their brain for a day or 2. with all the attention wheeler is getting from the pro catfishing world I really believe the new world record blue will be caught there in the next few years.

A limit of grouper within sight of the shore.