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Cat on a fly?
« Thread Started on Mar 16, 2007, 8:37pm »
Has anyone caught a catfish while flyfishing?
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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #1 on Mar 17, 2007, 1:00am »
that would be sweet to see!!! i believe blues in main feed just might do it!!!
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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #2 on Mar 17, 2007, 10:05am »
Don...there is a show on Saturday afternoons at either 3 or 4 PM on WHMB (local channel 40) called Fishing with Eddie Brochin. He is a catfish kind of guy and a few weeks ago he was catching channels on a fly rod in some small lake in southern Indiana. It was taped last year sometime...but nonetheless, he was catching them. He does alot of catfishing shows. You should tune in sometime.
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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #3 on Mar 17, 2007, 6:37pm »
It is do able its just a matter of locating a suitable area to flyfish for them. You would use the same tactics you use for small mouth flyfishing. Typically a nymph setup using a larger nymph or leech.
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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #4 on Mar 17, 2007, 10:49pm »
Thx flatheadking, I'll definitly look into Eddie Brochin and the show.

When I was a kid I was using a a #5 Aglia (Mepps), for pike and caught a channel that just wacked the lure. The lure was moving so fast you would think the channel couldnt possible attack it. (channel cats are slow moving scavengers) vs (skilled predator)

Another time I caught a Flathead and while checking the stomach contents found four large plastic crawfish inside. (flatheads only eat live bait) vs (flatheads will eat soft plastics)

Cat on a fly, doesn't supprise me, what does is that someone is doing it.

I gotta try this some time.



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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #5 on Mar 17, 2007, 10:56pm »
I checked out Eddies charter prices, 1/2 day $375, & full day $525. Maybe when I get back on my feet again I can get a half day Flyfishing for Cats with him.

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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #6 on Mar 18, 2007, 10:32am »
Actually a channel cat is a highly sophisticated predator much more adapted to hunting and killing then a pike or walleye. They are more closely designed to a shark with their hunting skill and ability. Unlike a pike who comes up and swallows its prey on the first bite killing it with its teeth. A catfish makes multiple strikes first to taste the bait, then a second blow to stun the bait, and finally a third to consume. They are a swimming sensory organ designed to locate and find prey (not that they won't pass up the easy meals) their main diet consists of smaller fish and crustacians.
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Re: Cat on a fly?
« Reply #7 on Mar 18, 2007, 4:45pm »
The channel cats I've caught in Illinois are great fighters too, more-so than some other fish I've caught.

I heard catfish are such predators that they can taste with their tail.
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« Reply #8 on Aug 6, 2007, 1:37am »
I used to flyfish quite a bit when I was younger. I suprised the you-know-what out of myself when I landed a small catfish on a small nymph. I was fishing the spillway of Morse Res. on Cicero creek, just kinda beatin the hell outta the water when I thought I had snagged the fly. But then it started moving upstream & less than 5 minutes later I had a small channel cat. Lots of fun & it felt like a log.
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