We went out Saturday and caught 17 cats, 9 Ops and 8 blues. I was too worn out Sat to get any good pics, but I snapped a few of the coolers before I cleaned the Ops:





We had a 28, a 20, a couple 10-12s, and several 4-8s. Out of just the Ops and after trimming to nothing but white meat, we put up 18 bags of boneless meat. Oughta be some mighty fine eatin'

Have a Good One,

Reloader

That's some good stuff! Every time I stick my hand in one of those holes, all I come up with is a cottonmouth, but my daughter is very good at picking the big ones.

What's an ops?

Op, Opelousa, Flathead, Yellow Cat, etc all refer to the Flathead Catfish.

Very fine fish to eat. The best fresh water fish to eat IMO. Very tender white meat with absolutely no fishy or muddy taste.

Have a Good One,

Reloader

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Originally posted by Reloader:
Op, Opelousa, Flathead, Yellow Cat, etc all refer to the Flathead Catfish.

Very fine fish to eat. The best fresh water fish to eat IMO. Very tender white meat with absolutely no fishy or muddy taste.

Have a Good One,

Reloader

Goujon where I am from, definitely not to be confused with a mud cat. Goujon are the best fish to eat.

Reloader: If I remember correctly their "teeth" are not bad and they can not fin you like a blue cat.

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Reloader: If I remember correctly their "teeth" are not bad and they can not fin you like a blue cat.

Yep, No worries on getting finned, you can bear hug the big ones until you get them to the boat. They don't have bad teeth and their bite is mild, but there small teeth are slanted in so they will tear hide when you try to pull your hands out(more than a blue). We just wear Kevlar gloves, no worries.

Have a Good One,

Reloader

Never ate one but that is a recommendation to take seriously. I'm pretty fond of walleye, perch and crappie which are considerably more available in PA than flatheads.

Since this topic is so foreign to me, I am absolutely curious: who ever thought first to stick their hand up under the bank of a stream in the hopes of yaning out a fish???

I'm totally serious here.

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Originally posted by jsl3170:
Since this topic is so foreign to me, I am absolutely curious: who ever thought first to stick their hand up under the bank of a stream in the hopes of yaning out a fish???

I'm totally serious here.

Me too.

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who ever thought first to stick their hand up under the bank of a stream in the hopes of yaning out a fish???

I'd say that was probably the most common method for much of human history.

Same guys went after wooly mammoths with pointy sticks and rocks, so grabbing fish was probably womens work.

Hey Reloader, Looks like you all have some good repeatable Holes to check.

Aren't you worried about them being full of "Lead"???

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Aren't you worried about them being full of "Lead"???

I hear ya, mecury is often a scare here in the riverways, but not so much the lakes.

If we bought in to all of the BS on what is harmful in groceries today, we'd all die of starvation

Reloader

Completely agree. I can remember when we had clinton in office, that EVERY WEEK they would come out with a new ""Killer"" consumer food product. I seem to remember them covering, milk, eggs, popcorn, meat, pretty much everything except veggies. Once they were out, the milk-mustaches begin showing up, people once again ate eggs and now popcorn(just read about it yesterday) is considered a Health Food.

Be careful showing the flicks, skinner will have them X-Rayed and show allllll kinds of bad things in them.
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By the way, the 17-year Cicada "Emergance"(also found out it is not refered to as a hatch) is in various KY counties. All the fish - of any kind - are piggin' out on them when they occasionally crash onto the water.

For anyone interested, the smallest Heddon Torpedo you can find is working right well. I had the Tiny Torpedos and they were catching Bass. Then I found some Teeny Torpedoes and plan to try them tomorrow. Should be able to catch everything on them.

Not the same as Noodlin' though. Best of luck to you.

NICE GOING!!!

That's something I have never tried, although a fellow from south of Three River, TX tried to talk me into it a couple years ago.

He was getting up in age, and while he had quite a few photos of his catches, the thing that stuck out in my mind was a story he told of how he nearly didn't make it one time.

He was out in the water alone (said his brother usually went but not this time) when he located a good 'cat. Somehow, as he went under, one of his gloves became entangled in some old barbed wire, and he said it took everything he had to get himself freed from that mess. It didn't seem to bother him or even slow him down, but that story stuck in the back of my mind. Guess I am not a very brave soul...

I used to worry about the fish I ate from Lake Erie before I realized that practically nothing else that I ate was even tested. Gotta eat something.