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Quote by: REDBONE
Tell me everything you know about catfish through the ice. I want to catch them this year. I saw last year there were quite a few caught and want to know if they were incidentals or targeted.
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Globs of waxies or dead minnows. Beat the heck out of the bottom, and you should get em. Jigging spoons for bigger cats, but normal ice jigs will getthe eaters.
I target catfish late ice every year. Im sure everyone has their own techniques, this is what works for me. I use a jigging spoon with 2 waxies and fish about 2 foot off the bottom. For me a very slow presentation seems to work best. I barely twitch the spoon, maybe a slow raise. Too much movement seems to spook them. Watch your electronics(vex) and see how they react to your presentation. Good luck!!
I caught quite a few last year, but they were all incidental. I even rigged up a pole for them with a little heavier line, but still always caught them on my panfish poles. I did make a little gaff out of a bigger diddy pole hook and a piece of wooden dowel to help get them through the hole. All the cats I’ve caught have come out of one farm pond.
When I am fishing the creek channels in McBride is when I get into the channel cat.Usually near an inside corner.Say the locater shows 15′ to the bottom,then you notice the bottom changes to 14 or 13′.Usually it’s a school of channel cat.I will mention this to other fishermen in the area.Yea right is the normal response.That’s when i beg a couple of wax worms and catch one. I don’t fish for them but every time the bottom moves I get one if i can get some wax worms.
I was fishing last weekend in 16 foot of water for crappies and ended up catching 7 channel cats from 1 lb to 3 lb. The crazy thing is they all bit about 7 to 9 ft off the bottom on a teardrop with a wax worm. Must have been really hungry. As soon as I seen them on the vex hold on your rod hard or they would rip it out of your hand.
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