state record

[Guest]

38# Channel Cats
70# for the Flathead
Blues do not exist in MN at this time so no record on that, though the old timers would tell you that they did exist in the late 1800's-early 1900's .

[catfishbill]

what is the state record for the big cats?
blues,flat,ect.....

[EBass]

Just curious, why can't we have Blues here? Too cold or not the right type of music? Get it? Blues? OK bad joke.

[Mr Special]

hahaha,
But I think it's too cold.

[slabberknocker]

I have wondered the same thing about Blues. It cant be because it is too cold because we catch a lot of them in South Dakota and there really is not much difference in temps.

Slab

[Ed Carlson]

The Northern populations of Blues are influenced more by the availability of fish stocks and the existence of impassable barriers set by man on major rivers.

Several large reservoirs in the upper Midwest do have a smaller population of Blue Cats. Like Oahe and Lake Sacagawea, the state records both came from these systems. In MN the Mississippi River below the last locks is the most likely area to find a stray Blue these days.

Generally the cut off point for a sustainable population of blue runs along a line East West along the Dakotas.

------------------
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson

Backwater Guiding
"ED on the RED"
[email protected]
701-640-2796
><,sUMo,>

[EBass]

Thanks Ed! I haven't seen your posts recently. I'm glad to see your back.

[Wiskers]

Ed
You ready for another trip up north?????? Man that was fun... I cant wait to get back up there.. June is out of the question for now, booked full.. Maybe in July or August....Is the Red down there settleing down yet? Up here it is still a bit high.. The Red Lake River is still very high and full of grassssssss..... Cant even keep sinkers down... You can almost walk acorss the water its so thick.. LOL....

------------------
Wiskers Guiding Service
Red River, Red Lake River & Minnesota River,for Channel Cats, Flatheads & Walleyes
Crookston, MN
[email protected]

218-280-0442

[Guest]

My bro caught a blue catfish out of the Mississippi near Coon Rapids dam last year. Was about 3-4 pounds.

[Perch Jerker]

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/2003/0313/1522989.html

"Two Minn. state records removed

Associated Press

ST. PAUL — Two state-record fish have been removed from the record books, including a rare blue catfish caught last year, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials said recently.

The angler, Steve Ness of Browerville, had told DNR officials he caught the 52-pound, 8-ounce catfish near Lac Qui Parle last summer.

But conservation officers have since learned the fish was actually caught in South Dakota. Ness has been cited for possession of wild animals in the state that have been unlawfully taken and for knowingly signing a false affidavit.

Common in other areas of the country, blue catfish are so rare in Minnesota that an official state record didn't exist before Ness' was added. Now, that line is blank once again.

The state record rainbow trout also has been removed from the books at the request of the angler who caught it. The fisherman said the application was entered with incorrect information about the 17-pound, 6-ounce fish caught in 1974 near the Knife River. No citations were issued.

The state record for rainbow trout will revert to the previous 15-pound, 7-ounce steelhead caught near Two Harbors in 1970."

FYI the Blue Cat record is still open...

PJ

[DARK30]

I'd forgive the guy for fibbing about the big Blue...Only if he showed me exactly where he caught it in South Dakota! (Probably in the MO river) I'm still planning on a little road trip out to the Yankton area soon as I can.

As far as Blues being in Minnesota waters...I still can't beleieve they couldn't be. They could swim all the way to Granite Falls on the Minnesota if they wanted too. Maybe they just prefer very large rivers with lots of room who knows.

I still hear people say they catch um in the Minnesota but I've never seen one and some guys I know at the DNR say people mistake the big old Channels for Blues.

I now know what a Blue looks like...Like this .......

------------------
cast,cast,cast,cast......

[Roughfisher]

Yep, the only TRUE way to tell the difference between a big channel and a small blue is to look at the anal fin. The blue has 30 or more rays in the anal fin, an the fin has a straight edge as opposed to curved in the channel catfish. Channel cats have 24 to 29 rays in the anal fin. Of course anything over 50 pounds is probably a blue.

[Ed Carlson]

UF---DA....Ata-Boy Dark!!!!

And Whiskers...I was ready for another trip as soon as I got home...Eh.

As soon as I can schedule another run North...I sure will.

Catch ya soon...........><,,>

------------------
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson

Backwater Guiding
"ED on the RED"
[email protected]
701-640-2796
><,sUMo,>

[Matt Johnson]

Nice fish Dark!

Good Fishin,
Matt Johnson

------------------
Matt Johnson Outdoors
Metro Area Ice Fishing, Team Catch-N, and more...

[email protected]
Iceleaders
Catch-N Tackle and Bio Bait
MarCum
Stone Legacy
JR's Tackle