Got a new Tattoo

[DTro]

Just a temporary one though It has scabbed up quite nice today

[reinhard1]

ouch!!!!!just wouln't let go i guess. nice fish!!good luck.

[TruthWalleyes]

[Brad B]

Come on D that is just a love bite.(LOL)

[DARK30]

You need a tattoo like Jake has

[Shack]

ouch!!!!!just wouln't let go i guess. nice fish!!good luck.

I do not know for sure that this flat did not clamp down on Dtro, but most of the flat rash just comes from scraping the bend of your knuckles on the upper jam while handling them. Never hurts and you do not know your bleeding till you see a trail of blood. Their serrated micro teeth or grit pads just need a nice healthy knuckle to scrape against it and it looks like you lost a finger. Sticks around for awhile also. May be has something to do with a little bacteria or the fact is bleeds so darn much when it occurs?

Either way nice fish Dtro. Putting in work this has paid off for the conditions we have.

[reinhard1]

i have never cought any catfish that big. my son-in law is getting very interested in it now. spent a few nights on the minnesota river. one time one of the guys on the catfish forum let him and his buddies tie on to his boat [met at the landing]. they watched him get a 25 pounder soon after that. he was a great help to them and learned a lot from him. good luck.

[Ed Carlson]

I had my share of kitty rash, and I never really notice it tell latter. People thing you were in a fight with a belt sander.

I learned many years ago NOT to try the jaw grab on Sumo Channel Cats....they will let you know real quick they can eat clams like sunflower seeds. Broke a couple fingers forgetting that lesson once by not reaching for the pliers to remove a hook....when I knew I should have.

Big Sumo Channels are like a vise with an attitude, and no remorse.

I think they giggle a bit after they crush ya a good one too. Ha...Haaaa!

[aanderud]

Holy cow, Ed -- you busted fingers in a channel cat? I knew they could bust clamshells, but I'd never heard of one actually breaking human bones! I think if that happened to me, there'd be a screwdriver through that fishes skull and he'd be on my dinner table.

[Gordie]

The channel cat dance is a unforgetable one at that

still looking for the first rash of the year

[Brad B]

it doesn't have to be a sumo channel or flathead to chomp you. I had a small 5lb channel get my thumb tip and it hurt like h*ll but it didn't break the bone. that is one lesson I won't forget (note to self don't put fingers by channel cats mouth when removing hook, use pliers).

[Surreal Deal]

I learned many years ago NOT to try the jaw grab on Sumo Channel Cats....they will let you know real quick they can eat clams like sunflower seeds.

...Big Sumo Channels are like a vise with an attitude, and no remorse.

No doubt, man.