05-01-2020, 05:11 PM
I was sitting out in the middle of the lake the other day thinking about catching a big catfish when it suddenly dawned on me that in my post above I had left out an important step in calculating catfish weight from length. Corrected: take the length of the cat and DROP THE 2 then add one to get the approximate weight. Example: 26" cat, drop the 2 = 6, add one = ~7 pounder. This works for channel cats in the 24-29" range. For longer fish you should add 1.5.
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.