Catfish

[Big Bad Wulff]

Caught this biggen the other day. That sure was a fun 10-minute fight!


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[Fenderplayer104]

What did you catch him on?
I'v been wanting to catch catfish on a flyrod for the longest time, but couldn't decide what to use.

[Joe Hyde]

Nice catfish, Wulff! A lot of people think it can't be done with fly tackle. A lot of people are wrong.


Joe
"Better small than not at all."

[anglerdave]

What did you catch him on?
I'v been wanting to catch catfish on a flyrod for the longest time, but couldn't decide what to use.

I've had good success on Clousers, Mickey Finns and some on Woolly Buggers.

[Bluegill222]

What Aglerdave said. In the Spring and early summer you can also catch them on the surface after dark on bass poppers. Deer hair mice and frogs seem to work the best for me. This guy grabbed a deer hair frog back in June:

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All you have to do is work the same cover and weed brakes you'd target for bass during the day. You'll pick up some really nice bass this way, too. The rest of the year, stick to the streamers and woollies, and work places were there are sudden depth changes.

[Jeremy]

[quote="Bluegill222"] This guy grabbed a deer hair frog back in June:

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That was a really nice cat, especially since he took topside!! Really nice!!

I love the topwater stuff....and that fly is one of my very favorites. Try those flies for pike in the fall with a wire leader. Awesome!!

Jeremy.

[CRAPPIECAT]

I caught a 4 1/2 pounder on a red and black leech that Rick Z sent me a couple of weeks ago....now that was fun!!!!!

Also, have had them hit Old Reliables, and Zug bugs.... I wasn't "fishing" for them at the time it's just what i caught.

[rrhyne56]

BBW, that is a nice fish!

Personal opinion only here and Your Mileage May Vary but it's not so much what fly but where one fishes. If you can locate where they are feeding they will hit a streamer, popper or whatever morsel-sized pattern is there. Last time out to Cedar Creek we were tossing Clousers at rip rap trying to entice bass. Instead we ran into a pod of channel cats and spent the next little while pulling cats out.

Another experience, wee hours oh dark thirty, tossing a yellow Walmart popper up under willows on a grown over farm tank. Again, hoping for bass but instead ambushed by the biggest channel cat I ever caught on any sort of tackle. Now that was a fight - and on a six weight!

Yet another - at [url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/:66378]TFFC[/url:66378] in Athens during FlyFish Texas, throwing woolly buggers for stocker trout (what else in Texas?) If the fly was allowed to get too deep I got the surging, diving power runs of catfish on whereas if it were stripped in higher up in the water column the ripping, leaping fight of a rainbow.

[Big Bad Wulff]

What did you catch him on?
I'v been wanting to catch catfish on a flyrod for the longest time, but couldn't decide what to use.

Wooley bugger with beadchain eyes. Caught one on an olive one and 2 others on a chartreuse one.

[Joe Valencic]

Good eatin'...