catfishing

[sbuse]

I second the part about mississippi fish being disgusting, a disturbing reality of resource degredation and human impact (even after so much has been improved and the fish communities have). I fish under st anthony falls and lock and dam no 1 often by boat, lookin for big walleye and smallmouth. I have caught many nasty ass channels living mixed in with all that dirty effluent that break 30" easily. I usually just throw them to the numerous shore fisherman who want to eat em!

Usually the fish out of that section of the river are very pale in color and often have moderate parasite loads, which is probably caused by the secondary stress accrued as a result of all the nasty trace pharmaceuticals that make their way into the watershed (and then end up concentrating in the top predators). It is simply amazing that they can survive as they do!

Attached is a pic of a giant mississippi river walleye from last fall, and a behemoth 46" northern pike from only three weeks ago (a creature of the unadultered waters of the north!)

keep in mind i am 6'4"

nice pike, i haven't had a camera for any of my big pikes...i always get them when i am messing around with other things...

 

[cichlid fiend]

The pike is nice!!!

 

[sbuse]

headded out tonight till 5am or later...i will hopefuly get some more...this is the latest i have gone out in about 8years...way to long without some good catfishing...it is hot and sticky outside i am so pumped...