catfish finally posted

[wolkie]

[wolkie]

Thank you everyone for your patients and help!!!!!!!!!!

[muc33]

You got it!!!!! Nice wiskers!!!

[Ralph Wiggum]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

[harvey lee]

Thanks for the photo. Now I'm really pumped to get out. C,mon water temps.

[Shack]

That is a nice dark flat.

Cool fish.

[Lowblazah]

Wowsers...what a brute. Nice catch

[wolkie]

Thanks guys! That was a fun fight! caught lindy rigging for walleye,22 ft deep on a boulder point, 8lb test, 5 ft snell on a 1/16 ounce bannana jig tipped with a inflated crawler. Surprised the heck out of me. I know the length 49 3/4 but I never got the girth. Had a berkley electronic scale top out at fifty lbs and it hit top. I wish I knew how big it was! C.P.R. was in practice so others can have the same amazing experience I had! Besides that fish lived a long life I couldnt possibly think of Keeping it.

[Shack]

Great story and again great fish!

[Tyler Holm]

Nearly 60" OMG. Awesome fish.

[DTro]

Was that in MN?

If so you quite possibly released a state record at that length.

[wolkie]

Yes it was, same as the state record St. croix according to two taxidermists and the weight calculatorn guestimates put the fish at 50 to 60 lbs it wasnt very fat but long. how big is the one in your pic? I never fished for cats before so dont know much about them. p.s. i've had alot of comments on the color too if that means anything.

[DTro]

The one I caught last year was 48" long and 52lbs

[wolkie]

thats the same length, I just looked at my post and I appologize to people 59 is the wrong # sorry. I feel like a fool!!!!!!!! correction 49 3/4

[Larry FlatCaster]

I caught one the year before that was 48inches long that tipped the scales at 39lbs.

Its amazing the variations in wieght compared to length with these fish.

Nice fish! How tall are you?

thanks for sharing

LFC

[Steve Foss]

Thanks, wolkie. Considering the picture, it was starting to look like you'd have to be 7 feet tall and change your name to Wookie (Chewbaca in Star Wars ) for the fish to be five feet long.

[wolkie]

6' even see if you guys see something different. I'd like to know. Take a guess everyone is!

[Steve Foss]

Heck, I've got no guess at all. Chased channel cats for years and years and could make a pretty close estimate on one of those kitties, but have never fished for flats. Yet!

[wolkie]

If anyone can I would love any and all feedback. thats why I'm here to talk to the people that know! I dont care if its 5 lbs or 1000. I would like to roughly know.

[Alan]

Excuse my ignorance here, but holy cow! That thing is huge. Have never fished for cat's before, but I got to imagine that thing got your heart pumping...

It always amazes me that something that big and bigger is swimming around in the lakes and rivers. Very cool indeed, congrats..

[Tyler Holm]

That split whisker is cool. I'd say between 40 & 50 lbs. It's a lengthy bugger, but in honesty I might put to closer to 40.

[DTro]

wolkie, I love that attitude!

Some guys can really get offended when questioned.....but since you asked.

A couple of years ago I started measuring every Flat I caught (lenght and girth). Along with others doing the same thing I think we've come up with some pretty accurate numbers.

I have a couple of formulas that work pretty good as long as you have length and girth.

This is just my opinion, but if that fish is 49" long, just looking at that build, I would put it in that 35-40llb range, possibly bigger.

Sometimes those fish in the Miss and Croix get very long and not quite as fat as the MN river fish.

That's just my opinion.

I'm sure others will have their own.

Honestly it shouldn't matter, the memory of catching it should supercede anything!

Nice Fish

[wolkie]

Awesome!! Thank you guys very much sincerly. I'ts good to know people will help you instead of laugh behind your back.

[Tyler Holm]

 Originally Posted By: wolkie

Awesome!! Thank you guys very much sincerly. I'ts good to know people will help you instead of laugh behind your back.

Yep, good tude about all this. Next time get an accurate girth, and we can probably help with a little more accuracy. Like dtro said thou, the exact weight doesn't matter. The experience and story, awesome picture are what really counts.

[Shack]

I think some sites would rip a guy to shreads, this site is as cool as you can get.

One thing I give you fish, it is dark.