Went trolling for Crappie today

[SlabHunters]

Me and my dad went out trolling for some crappie this morning before the heat ran us off the lake. We picked up a baby white crappie and we picked up a catfish. Which is amazingly, what we usually catch when trolling for Specks in this lake. It is the 4th different kind of catfish we've come across and this last one has us stumped. The colors on it were crazy. It looked as if a trout and a catfish mated. Anyone ever come across this particular cat?

[flycaster]

spots indicate a channel catfish??????

[kthompson2k]

Looks like a channel cat?

[Semo]

Thats a channel cat. Channel cat's will have different coloring depending on the waterthey are native to. The spots are found on younger fish.

[Drtodd10]

Yep def. channel cat

[feelay]

[SlabHunters]

Thanks for the info fellows. So far we've caught almost a solid brown color cat with dots, a few solid grays and one that was so gray it was practically black. They've ranged between 17.5 inches to about 23 inches long.

[Ranger R61]

next time just catch crappie

[Eatmorecrappie]

Yea that's a channel catfish.

[skeetbum]

It's a green nose spotted cat. Them other guys don't know nothin.