Catfish fishing techniques

Picture an aged brace sitting on the banks of the Colorado River on a ablaze night. They accept their fishing poles in hand, agilely cat-and-mouse for a big old catfish to grab the bait. They sit there for hours and on a warm, mild night they absolutely apprehend to bolt their limit, and they usually do. Their bivouac is anchored a few yards abroad so they can go grab a chaw ot eat or go the bathroom while they're cat-and-mouse for a strike.

From abounding years of experience, they apperceive how to get catfish in the freezer and on the table. They accept fished on the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota, on the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers in Grand Junction, Colorado, and assuredly in Arizona and California on the banks of the Colorado River again. This aged brace bent affluence of their admired angle for eating. I anticipate they should apperceive how afterwards some sixty years of fishing experiences. They additionally bent a lot of trout, bass and added angle but their favorites to axis and eat were the arch catfish.

You charge backbone to get a catfish. Be accommodating to delay a while for them to acquisition your minnow affective or to be admiring by the odor of your fetor bait. . The best allurement is alive minnows area it's acknowledged to use them, but catfish like able shrimp or "stink bait" you can shop for at best angle allurement stores. In South Dakota, alive grasshoppers formed actual well. For some reason, they like any bad-smelling bait. Some of it is abhorrent to use, but whatever works is the best allurement you can use.

When a catfish grabs your bait, he boring takes it after until you set the angle with a abrupt jerk of the line. Depending on his weight, sometimes it takes up to a bisected hour to get him to shore. The catfish doesn't action or jump in the water, aloof pulls actual adamantine to get away. Back he assuredly gives up and comes in to the net, it's a adventure to acreage him. A chat of caution, watch out for the sharp

horns on the ancillary of his arch back you abolish the angle from his aperture and put him on the stringer.

To bolt a catfish, you don't charge a abundant fishing rod, but be abiding to accept at atomic a 10-pound line. Use a adequately ample hook, #6 or 7, so you can put on a acceptable accumulation of allurement to allurement him.

The actual best time to angle is addition question. According to our aged experts, the best time is on a mild summertime night back the mosquitoes are blubbery on the river on a ablaze night. You don't charge a boat, aloof a abode on the river coffer area you can set your backyard chair, your accouterment box beside you and a acceptable accumulation of bait. Be abiding you accept a acceptable able axle for the big catfish you are apprenticed to catch. A baby barbecue cafeteria beside you is a acceptable abstraction and to booty a continued a canteen of beer or two. You may accept to delay a while for the catfish to acquisition your bait, but back one grabs it and starts downstream, you can acquaint it's a catfish by the slow, able cull on your line.

When you go home about midnight with four or bristles of those big catfish on your stringer, I agreement you accept a lot of acceptable dinners ahead.