08-12-2003, 07:37 PM
[cool]Down here in Arizona, and wherever else you find cats in water clear enough to allow them to feed by sight, cats are great lure munchers. TubeBabe and I have caught hundreds of BIG cats down here, using baitbugs and even on bass plugs and plastics.
I used to absolutely SPANK the channels in Willard on the yellow twisters with red heads I used to fish for walleyes in the mud lines during a windstorm. I also won a bet in willard by catching a limit of channels on flies, in less than an hour. Limit in those days was 16.
Those bait bugs I make are great cat killers. In Patagonia Lake, the subject of one of my other recent threads, the big mamas move in around the reeds and cattails in the spring to spawn. The big daddies stay to guard the nests and to eat. I made big "dipsticks"...long rods for vertically dropping the jigs into the holes in the reeds...and fished heavy bass jig hook baitbugs with a whole bluegill fillet on them. I landed many cats over 10 pounds, and had others literally tow me right back into the reeds before straightening the hooks or ripping off.
By the way...use black ones at night or in really muddy water. Right behind that are the red heads and chartreuse bodies. In clear water conditions, go to whites and silvers...and/or golds or yellows.
If you use a Roadrunner type jig, with the vibrating and flashing spinner, be prepared for some bodacious strikes. They will haul you off your feet...or if you are fishing a bobber, it will shoot a steam of water straight up as the fish hauls it under.
Hang 10 (pounds).
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I used to absolutely SPANK the channels in Willard on the yellow twisters with red heads I used to fish for walleyes in the mud lines during a windstorm. I also won a bet in willard by catching a limit of channels on flies, in less than an hour. Limit in those days was 16.
Those bait bugs I make are great cat killers. In Patagonia Lake, the subject of one of my other recent threads, the big mamas move in around the reeds and cattails in the spring to spawn. The big daddies stay to guard the nests and to eat. I made big "dipsticks"...long rods for vertically dropping the jigs into the holes in the reeds...and fished heavy bass jig hook baitbugs with a whole bluegill fillet on them. I landed many cats over 10 pounds, and had others literally tow me right back into the reeds before straightening the hooks or ripping off.
By the way...use black ones at night or in really muddy water. Right behind that are the red heads and chartreuse bodies. In clear water conditions, go to whites and silvers...and/or golds or yellows.
If you use a Roadrunner type jig, with the vibrating and flashing spinner, be prepared for some bodacious strikes. They will haul you off your feet...or if you are fishing a bobber, it will shoot a steam of water straight up as the fish hauls it under.
Hang 10 (pounds).
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