Hemlock Catfish 10-10

[laker taker]

 

Caught and released this guy yesterday caught him down 30 over 80 feet of water on the core. Pretty cool fish really a surprise and certainly a first. He was 30" and at least 7" across. Did one other Laker about 28" and a 5 other hits. Water really cooling down now 63 nice temp break at 40 feet drops right to 48 degrees. 

 

Chuck

 

 

 

[Nautitroller]

That's a really cool catch! I bet he would have been tasty coming out of that clear cold water.

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Edited October 12, 2015 by Nautitroller

[FLXTrolling]

Sweet fish Chuck - how do you catch all these exotic species out of Hemlock?

 

I got out on the South end for a bit yesterday morning, first time on Hemlock in 2 months...  Caught one nice 23" Rainbow over 70' on a size 0 dipsy, setting 2, 137' back on a Pink/Gold Stingray, and a Laker, about 26" on the 40' Downrigger with a Finger Lakes Tackle Alpha Alewife .  Laker was over 50' of water.  Beautiful day, a bit windy though...

 

I'll probably hit again next Sunday weather permitting

[dremarquis]

hey chuck,

 

is that a HUGE bullhead?

 

dre

[laker taker]

Dre, I was thinking Channel Catfish? The thing weighed....I bet between 15 and 20lbs best guess.

Chuck

[FLXTrolling]

Chuck, is the tail really forked? Hard to tell from the picture. If so its a channel cat. Otherwise it's a world record Bull Head!

[dremarquis]

having grown up in texas where i caught 100s of channel cats, they always hadsome spots on them. The color on your cat, Chuck, is different from any channel i've caught, but again, those were from Tx. I'll be curious to hear with the DEC says, but their responses don't always convince me!

 

dre

[Clarkie]

It's a channel cat...the small ones up to 3-4 pounds have spots, but many if not most of the bigger ones lose their spots.

[burrows24]

Very nice channel cat

[Sk8man]

This might help out

[143447]

My Dad says they used to catch them by the rope full in the Susquehanna River years ago. Although they kept and ate everything in Endicott in the 50s..

Cool to see one Chuck!!

[panfisher]

Beautiful big channel cat. There is definitely a forked tail and that brown, no spot color is typical of most I've seen in the northeast. Nice hall man!