09-12-2007, 12:50 AM
I bait the flathead rods with handsize bluegill on a 5/0 kahle hook.
I got 4 channels and 2 that were a swing and a miss on these rigs.
I didn't anticipate the channels taking those large bluegills so I didn't keep enough live gills to rebait.
I did have 2 guthooked gills that I cut up and put on smaller rigs to continue channel cat fishing through the night.
I was fishing an eastern Ohio lake.
With the warm weather and the channel cats smelling like shad I released them. By the end of Sept they will keep better in the cooler and maybe be off the shad diet since shad will be bigger.
When I do keep them I will keep 3 or 4 small channel cats because we rarely freeze fish and that is plenty for my wife and I. Early Spring and after water cools in Fall we usually have a few fish dinners.
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I got 4 channels and 2 that were a swing and a miss on these rigs.
I didn't anticipate the channels taking those large bluegills so I didn't keep enough live gills to rebait.
I did have 2 guthooked gills that I cut up and put on smaller rigs to continue channel cat fishing through the night.
I was fishing an eastern Ohio lake.
With the warm weather and the channel cats smelling like shad I released them. By the end of Sept they will keep better in the cooler and maybe be off the shad diet since shad will be bigger.
When I do keep them I will keep 3 or 4 small channel cats because we rarely freeze fish and that is plenty for my wife and I. Early Spring and after water cools in Fall we usually have a few fish dinners.
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