50lb Blue Catfish Caught & Released

Submitted by: gottafish (Scott Wood)

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Good Day Today. . . . .

Hit the river bright and early this morning with Chad (Kajun). Started the day off with a 25-30 lb blue in the gill net and a small flathead in the castnet. My personal best - 8 ounces!! Does this count? I want an "8 ounce club" icon...

The bite started in the first hole of the morning. We didn't have all of our rods in the water yet when we got the

first take down of the day - a 20. After a couple of fish in the 20s, we made a small adjustment and shifted the boat position a few feet and got set up in a productive hole. I think we spent about 2 hours in the same spot and had somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 pounds of fish in the boat before we left. Most fish we boated were in the 20s with a couple reaching into the 30s. Nothing huge - but I did hang a fish that was stuck on the bottom and ended up popping my line.

We ended running low on bait so we headed to the bait hole at slack tide for more, making it back into position about the time the tide got going again. The rest of the afternoon went well, boating more smaller fish in the teens and 20s, another 34 and a 50.

In all - a great day!! Especially since the bite has been so slow lately. We started keeping track of the fish about halfway through the morning bite when we realized we weren't able to keep it straight. The fish we recorded amounted to over 300 pounds. There were at least a couple that we didn't record. My best guess on a total for the day would be in the range of 350 - 360 pounds.

Here are some pics. We've actually got a video of the 50. When I figure out how to get it uploaded I'll make it available.

/Scott

Blue Catfish Photo 1
Blue Catfish Photo 2

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