Catfish on soft plastics? Two no less in the same day!

[Spoonminnow]

Decent bluegills caught - approx 2 doz. but this you'll find hard to believe - a picture is proof!


First catfish caught in the morning :


second catfish caught in the afternoon on a different bait:




The fight for the first fish was at least three minutes; the second a little less and on a different lure (also on my soft plastic creation.)

Come to think of it, last year I had a fish on that gave me the same incredible fight in the same location but it got lost in the shallow weeds and broke the line. Could it have been the same fish? Freak'n strange to say the least ! At least this time neither fish broke the 6lb test line (if it was two separate fish....) I forgot my scale which would have told the story. (wt. approx. first cat over 7 lbs; 2nd cat around 5 lbs.)

[Redge]

We catch catfish quite often on soft plastics. It only takes a millisecond to realize it's not a crappie! Glad they gave you a good fight!

[ibmack]

jigs catch about anything in the water.

[huntinslabs]

Yep! Catch em quite often. Even longlining at 1.3mph they will suck em in.

[Erin Brewer]

you can catch cats on cranks also!

[quadlee]

catch them all the time long lining road runners on Ky lake, they love soft plastics

[cwright]

Last Sat. we caught 3 cats trolling crankbaits for crappie. Biggest was a 15 lb flathead, about an 8 lb flathead and about a 6 lb channel. All on one point. Everytime we pulled over it, we caught a cat.

[Rusty Lee]

I've caught a few 5lb cats on curly tail worms, good times

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[Snubby]

I've seen a 10lb catfish caught on a piece of cutoff shoestring before, I just figured the boy had smelly feet.. Lol. But yeah, them sapsuckers will bite just about anything..

[Ketchn]

we ketch all kinds of fish on jigs .....sometimes lots of them .....3 catfish in a row one day in about that many minutes made me move the boat ,,,LOL