Caught some catfish.

I put some trot lines out over the weekend and caught a few catfish.

Friday night - 210 lbs


Saturday night - 471 lbs



Both nights the river here fell over a foot. Some old timers told me not to waste my time...

ol'dad

Look like some big ones

Holy Catfish! You don't mess around. All Flatheads and Blues?

I am so hungry for fish fry

nice catch , I can't hardly imagine 471 pounds being not worth it unless you have 250 pounds of bait out to catch that

Yes, all flatheads and blues. 115 hooks friday night and 125 hooks saturday night. Baited with bluegill, long ear, and green sunfish.

Those totals don't include around 40 lbs of small flatheads we threw back sunday morning, or the 40 lb +/- blue saturday and 60+/- lb flathead sunday morning that we lost trying to net. Both fish were on the last hook of the line next to the weight and straightened the hook when we were trying to net them. That flathead combined with what we threw back would have put me close to 600 lbs for the night on sunday, or 4.80 lbs/hook.

ol'dad

Wow! This brings back LOTS of Memories Growing up having Trot Lines on the Mississippi River. You got some Dandy's there and Thanks for sharing! Nice Work!

live blue gill of frozen and chunked?

Love them butterball yellow flattys. Good eating!

I know those Flatheads are very tasty, but I have never eaten a Blue....we don't have them here in Michigan. How is it compared to a Flathead?

That's a real nice mess. You should be dang proud. Did you make your own trout lines? What size hook? That boat looks like a nice one also.

Smaller blues from 15lb down are incredibly good. I dare say better than flatheads. I tend to toss back any blues over 20lb because of all the Mercury they claim the bigger fish have. No clue if correct or not

Been a while since we trot lined. But I love it. Alot of work goes in to making a line and setting lines and even more in running lines but worth it... We are one trip up to Truman had a weekend just like you did maybe not as big but we caught plenty next weekend we were on the phone buying a lot up there to leave the boats and camper.. fun times fun times... Now it's all work no play..

The bigger a blue gets the better they are to eat .
the bigger they get the easier it is to trim the fat off and there is less fat inside the muscle . We eat lots of blue here the bigger the better ,most between 20 and 40 pounds a few over 70

That's a catch!

Made a pot of catfish gumbo yesterday. It was so good.

Nice. That's a heck of a mess.

Dang ol' dad, great catch. I'm sure that was a lot of fun. You havin us all down for a fish fry, I'll bring macaroni salad.

Dang It Man!!

Ol' dad I would have thought like the old timers. Never done much good on the fall but from the looks of it that don't always hold true.

Wow nice catch!

....good mess !

That is a pile of catfish. I'm going to set out a line before long. Might be able to get one over 15 pounds, never know. We don't have flathead catfish in this area.

Great catch!