Channel Catfish Photo Gallery

[reinhard1]

Man, that's a nice lookin fish!!!good luck.

[Rick G]

Wow, that thing is a beast

[KMR85]

Wow

[DTro]

25lber

28lber

[wall_eye_assasin]

Unreal SUMO Cats guys, Can't wait until we get to see the full report and some more great pictures. Looks like you guys had fun and that is what it is all about. Great job and thanks for the pictures so far.....Kirk

[fishuhalik]

Jeebus those things are ridiculous dtro. Mind if my boat tags along with ya next year?

[Rick G]

Those are both Sumo pigs Nice fish guys!

[TruthWalleyes]

Looks like fun guys! Lockport?

[LUV2FSH]

Thought I would throw a few of my better catfish my wife and I've caught over the last couple years on here. Sorry about some of the picture qualities as a good camera was not always available. All of these were caught in ND and are all channels.

This one went 19lbs CPR

This one went 25LBS CPR

28LBS 11oz CPR

Didn't get a weight on this girl, 26-28 we are guessing. CPR

This one went 28LBS 3OZ CPR

29LBS CPR

30LBS CPR

27LBS and some change CPR

25LBS CPR

37LBS CPR

33LBS CPR

39LBS CPR

29LBS CPR

42LBS 1oz caught by my wife Tina, ND State Record

42LBS 1oz

[Rick G]

Welcome to HSO LUV2FSH! Those are some nice cats, thanks for sharing

[aanderud]

Wow, those are some dandy's. Thanks for sharing!

[DTro]

WHOA!!!

Dude I want to go fishing with you!

Awesome fish thanks for sharing.

[mrklean]

great fish

[LUV2FSH]

Hey, thanks guys. If I could figure out how to resize some of my other pics I could post quite a few more....more to come hopefully.

[LUV2FSH]

A couple more I got to work, lower grade pic quality, cell phone camera.

25LBS CPR

34LBS CPR

38LBS CPR

[nsnutter]

Holy mother ... Those are some SLOBS! If you don't mind my asking, are those Red River fish? That 42#er blows my mind ... Thanks for sharing!!

[DTro]

If I remember correctly, that fish was caught in a small 100 acre lake and the fish was originally put there to control the bullheads. Looks like it had been doing a good job of that.

Tina Willis, 31, of West Fargo, N.D., was targeting catfish with her boyfriend, Toby Mougey of Fargo, on July 25 when she landed the new record while using a frog for bait.

In the eyes of a hardcore cat man, it just wouldn’t have been right if she’d been dunking a nightcrawler for sunfish, stocked rainbow trout or some other “lesser” species — lesser in the eyes of a cat man, at least.

It's not often you get to congratulate a state record holder, so congrats to you and Tina!

I'm really curious if you have length and girth measurements of that fish?

[LUV2FSH]

Not sure on the girth of Tina's record but the length is 40". As for the pics, only 3 were caught on the Red River, 25LBS, the one we didn't get a weight on, and the extremely long male that went 25lbs...the others are various lakes/reservoirs in the state that have been know to produce channel catfish...we seem to get lucky enough to find the big ones once in awhile

[Alagnak]

Not sure on the girth of Tina's record but the length is 40". As for the pics, only 3 were caught on the Red River, 25LBS, the one we didn't get a weight on, and the extremely long male that went 25lbs...the others are various lakes/reservoirs in the state that have been know to produce channel catfish...we seem to get lucky enough to find the big ones once in awhile

If they get that big and fat up here by putting them in a few lakes and reservoirs I sure wish we'd spend even 1% of what this state wastes on walleye stocking and stock a few channel cats! Unlike a trophy eye, these things actually fight!

[Scott K]

Very nice fish. Dangit, I want to go fishing now.

[Scott M]

No state records (nice fish LUV2FSH!), but had some fun through the ice this past weekend:

[aanderud]

Nice video, Scott.

HOping to get up there sometime this week but my kid got sick, so we'll see.

[MattL]

I'm not a cat guy by any means, but I do stumble upon them once in a while when I'm after real fish. I never realized they were even active during winter until I caught this one the other day and did some Google'ing and learned all about "cat tornadoes".

This one was 28" and caught through the ice on a buckshot spoon with minnow head on a ML Fenwick with 4 lb line. I thought I had a 10 lb walleye on the whole time until it got to the bottom of the hole and started rolling. I couldn't see yet it but I knew I was in for a surprise.

I don't see myself converting to the "dark side" anytime soon, but I wouldn't mind catching a few more through the ice.

[Rick G]

I don't see myself converting to the "dark side" anytime soon, but I wouldn't mind catching a few more through the ice.

This is where it all starts, "just a few" thats what I said at first. Welcome to the Dark side

[Big Dave2]

My 12 year old son's 26" ice cat.