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Another week --another cat

katchaser

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Had a fine fight out of a big flathead last nite. It was blacker than a witches heart and I was fishing shallow water. The fish was being somewhat cooperative until we had to turn on a flashlight to net it. Then it turned meaner than your mother in law with a toothache.

I was awful proud of myself for checking the drag before fishing grin.gif

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This fish was short and wide. We call the hump on big males backs their shoulders cool.gif

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At 62 pounds this is my big fish this year. Really anticipating the Fall bite.

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Robby,

Nice fish! Since i think you fish out of the Catfish Queen pontoon is the river you usually fish a big river? I fish the Mississippi and our flathead bite is really slow right now. Any suggestions? I fished last week and caught a few smaller one's in the main channel transition to shallow timber snags but last night the same spots did not even produce a run! Just to give you some background our water level is really low so there is no current. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Besides waiting for the Fall bite as we can see you are having good luck) Thanks.

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DTro Grand Master

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Man, you sure catch some nice fish Robby!

Do take any lengths/girths on them bigguns?

I would be curious to see what they are coming in at.

Hopefully that big bite moves north wink.gif

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is the river you usually fish a big river?

I fish lakes in Eastern Ohio.

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Any suggestions?

Flathead are effective predators and do not feed every night. I am still trying to unravel what conditions they prefer to feed in but I know when I catch flathead other people in a 50 mile radius also catch flathead, so it must be related to weather conditions.

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what did you catch it on and what time in the evening did it bite?

This fish ate a goldfish at about 10:30 PM Saturday night.

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Do take any lengths/girths on them bigguns?

I often take lengths and girths but this fish was very uncooperative and beat me and himself up so we were in a hurry to part company.

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i will jump on this band wagon with a cat that was caught in minnesota. here it is we didn't have a scale but she measured 52" And it is the girlys first flathead she has ever caught. 219096.jpg

i posted this in one other forum so i apologize for those of you who have seen it 2 times. ike

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That fish was really 52"?

It is a VERY nice fish and I love the pic, those smiles say it all, but I question the measurement as I think maybe one or two people on this HSOforum have caught one near 52". For example, if you look at the Big Cat Safari thread, I think the biggest one is 47".

Not taking anything at all away from the fish, if fact......I would give just about anything to catch one like that recently.

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The measurement is probably off i will give you that but not by more than a few to a couple of inches. We didn't have a tape so we used a string line and streached it out head to tail and tied a knot. When we tied the knot when it tightened down we didn't think it was in the right spot but it is only off by a few. ike

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Well fellas i second guessed myself and went to the base ment and measured the peice of string we tied a not in again i got 52" Here might be the kicker there is metal thing on the end of the sting that is 5 inches long and i don't know if the knot tier took this into account if so then it is only 47 inches. I know that seems high but that is what it was. i am not much for fish stories as to i think it ruins a guys integrity to tell them. The fella in the picture is 6'5" so he dwarfs it a little but i gotta go with what we measured her at. It don't seem quite right as to those ones you show Kat. are huge looking but you are squating as well. good luck fellas and sorry about the controversy. ike

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