High Fin Blues

... got into a few with my boys last night

... we’re sideways

Runnin' lines, pole fishin, or electric shock therapy?

I would have thought that pic was with those boys Mama. Glad you specified and great catch.

4 hook jugs

Thanks mister

That's a lot of good eating there!

It was hurtin my neck

Nice fish!

Thanks... they’ve been a little slow this year, but caught them feeding out in the river channel in 25-30 foot

that's deep, man.

Nice mess of fish. Congratulations

good night fishing there !!!

Would.love to fish them sometime!

... when the surface temp is 85 the fish tend to head deep

... gets hot down here lol

J. , being from Wisconsin I ain't got much of a blue catfish eye. Gonna guess 2 to 8 pounders?
How much good fillets will you get out of that?
Enough money left over to buy you a haircut and a pair of shoes for Bud?

As always, Zim

Nice mess of fish Savell.
Fine looking kids you got there,they must take after their mother.

Impressive catch and family.

Savell can you remember when you first started catching high fins? When I was a kid we had channels and “regular” blues, we call them something else but in today’s political correctness I won’t say that word. It wasn’t until the mid ‘90s when I saw my first high fin blue in lake Eufala and it was called a Mississippi white or white channel. Only recently we have started getting them in our local rivers. The research I have done online, the biologists do not distinguish them from “regular” blues but they are definitely a different fish.

nice fish big guy and don't worry bout the haters that can't grow hair.same folks that say bald is beautiful.i prolly got 5-6 in on ya and ya should here what they say to me.

Ok... they’ve been here in East Texas ever since I can remember... in fact they make up the majority of the catfish in the lake here

Good mess a cats!

Them young Savells help you skin em?

Many folks confuse male channel cats with blue cats

I wouldn’t call it help Swampwolf lol

Nice mess of fish. The middle boy looks like he don't take no $hit from anyone. lol




Had a buddy text me a picture last year of his good night of blue cat fishing. They were all spawning channel cats. lol He asked me how to tell the difference. I said put your hand in their mouth. If your knuckles are bloody when you pull it out you have yourself a bluecat.

ol'dad

Nice bunch of cats savell. Great to see you with the boys. Like pcr says don't let em bust your oranges I'm a long hair too they're just jealous all the hair they have left is waving goodbye. I smoke most my cats. All we get here are channels

Way to go.Congrats

Had a buddy text me a picture last year of his good night of blue cat fishing. They were all spawning channel cats. lol He asked me how to tell the difference. I said put your hand in their mouth. If your knuckles are bloody when you pull it out you have yourself a bluecat.

ol'dad
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Ain't that the truth. Buddies have asked how they fight when noodln.....you know it's a blue when there is no nuckle meat left from the psycho spinning

That sure looks like fun.

Nice batch of fillets savell! I'd take their white meat over any fish

No offence Flint Hill but I would venture to guess ya have not
eaten too many walleyes.

zim

Get out of here Zim you yankee pollock !.... walleye is for women and children

... you’ll probably come in here bad mouthing fried okra next

.. ... and cornbread.... go on and eat your lutfisk nonsense and cheese

That is a great day on the river.

nice catch there Texan.

If ya don't mind me asking what lake/river ya fishin? I am headed toward San Antoine next week, hope to catch some them red fish they stock over near Lavernia.

That’s the Outlaw Jesse Henry Savell ol’ Dad... and he don’t take sh.... lol

il trapper.... we’re a ways east of where you’ll be .... trinity river

Sorry, ya sawed off little Texican. And for the records, I am about 100 percent German and too stubborn to
argue about it. I got a 20 foot row of okra going in the garden. We'ons are about at the north stretch
of it being it able to mature.

Zim

... that’s what all the pollocks say you bohemian lol

That is racist, and well, gosh, I don't know what to do.

Zim

Zim,I didnt know you were a bohemian-maybe Savell meant behemoth.

Quick throw a brick thru your window and light the drapes on fire.

Lol.... like old times in here

I would put all the yanks and sissies on ignore ... but then all I’d see would be my own posts lol

Savell, do you have any of what I would call our native blues? They are a darker blue with big bulldog heads and big lips. Even the smaller ones have a noticeably larger head and dark color. They aren’t good eating at all, nothing like the white meat on the high fins.

Using cut bait or live Savell? Caught a few on lines couple weeks ago south of Toadsuck and those blues were liking big minnows.

.... are they located near structure ...like old porches or broke down pulpwood trucks ?

.... having trouble getting them on fresh cut shad/bream this year due to an abundance of small cats ... small live bream or bought goldfish is what’s working now

That’s funny right there. Speaking of broke down pulpwood trucks, there use to be those old post and pulpwood trucks in every other yard with the hood up and the rear end out. 6 or 8 years ago when the scrap price went up those trucks disappeared. Never see em any more. I don’t know of any place around that still buys short wood and only one post plant still in operation.

OK......to me it sounds like what y’all are calling native blue cat are male channels over 4 lbs or so in early summer ...they’ll look a lot like them but won’t have the hump on the back... and dark bloody meat when you clean them

I will have to try to remember to take a picture of one and put on here. My buddies will think I’ve lost my mind taking a picture of a nasty ole blue.

The best way to tell the difference between a channel and a blue is
Blues jaws come together
Channels have an overbite

Don't have blues here, wish we did

This is what we go after.

Please do... I’d like to see one

... and those are some good sized ops right there!

Savell, I'm ashamed of you. What sort of backwoods living, lone-star drinking, honkytonking, slap-taming East Texan BUYS goldfish for bait? I suppose next you'll be buying worms so your boys don't get dirt under their fingernails picking up nightcrawlers? This is a sad day in America.

.... getting soft in my old age I guess lol