I had a buddy that I use to work with call me yesterday evening want to know if I would like to go catfishing with him on the Osage River in the morning? I said heck yeah and we were on them right away this morning. Anywhere there was step banks and a rocky bottoms we caught fish. The biggest fish of the day was 9 1/2Lbs. and yes we limited out by 11:00 this morning. The river was up about 8 1/2 feet from all the rain in the last couple of days making the water conditions perfect. And best of all after we got back to his houses and cleaned all of them he told me to take them all home . He told me they didn't have anymore room in the freezer, it was a total of 5 one gallon bags stuffed full.

Very nice, good eatin there

Man those are some pretty looking cats ! Should be some fine eating!

What was your cat bait of choice?
Really nice mess of fish.

Man those are fun to catch!

Nice!! Good job bud!!

The best we ever did was our limit (10 each) with 3 of us on small channel cats all about 18-23 inches. We were trolling with small stick baits in a flowage and got an occasional walleye but the cats were hitting and to me just as tasty if not better.

Bryce

A limit on catfish?

Not here in Georgia...

Them are some darned nice channel cat. Wtg!!

Sunny's stink bait and using a mesh bait holder, with a treble hook

Nice.

That looks like a lot of fun.
Jim

Looks like a great time. My 15 yr old is sitting here at table rock disappointed he can’t catch a fish lol. He fishes everyday back home and has great luck, but having trouble figuring out the big lake with lots of pressure. Bank fishing

Tell him not to feel bad, I grew up on table rock and always struggled. You can catch perch all day long, but tough to catch much from bank consistently when it comes to bass or crappie.

I appreciate that. I’ll pass it on

…. Nice mess of channels

Very nice.Congrats and nice boat.

Heck you are just down the road from me. Great mess of channels and Sonny’s is a winner in our rivers

Went to college next to it and wife's Uncle lived/guided there. With this heat the bass might be 30-50' deep and they get a lot of pressure. Now this was also 15-30 years ago. Overtime the lake has been getting less clear due to runoff(nutrients) from chicken farms, people, yards, etc. so maybe they aren't quite so deep.