The grand river today

[AaronKrick]

Was on the grand today and the action was slow all morning. A few baby smallies taking my bait, until noon. It was nearing my time to leave and have lunch, so since nothing good was biting I put on a catfish rig and a dead minnow, casted out, and waited...for 3 minutes. I was holding my rod when I felt a bump on my line. I set the hook, and BAM he takes off. He took off 10 yards of line, with my rod bent right over. I started getting a handle on the big boy when he took off another 10 yards + of line. (10 yards is good for a catfish) ;-). I finally got it in after quite a fight, and he had to have the biggest head of any fish that I've ever seen. I have caught monster pussies about 5 inches longer than him, but they had a way smaller head than this one.

On with the pictures!!!!!!
The fish with a hand in comparison


And just the fish


I took out the background cause there was a croud there


1 really good fish like that is all it takes for me to go and grab some lunch :mrgreen:

Cheers,
cat

 

[jlisk]

Nice story man, thanks for sharing.

I love the crowd you gathered over your catch. Photobombed.

 

[AaronKrick]

Nice story man, thanks for sharing.

I love the crowd you gathered over your catch. Photobombed.

It's funny how non-fisher people love seeing a nice sized fish.

 

[chris f]

way to go catfish on the catfish :lol: sounds like it gave a good fight, thanks for sharing.

 

[hamiltonangler94]

Nice fish cat!