On The Search For River Monsters

[MudCat08]

A big thanks to all those here who gave tips and helped make the flatheads happen!

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

Did you find my red Rod holder at the deleware? I left it as I scrambled out of there when it poured wednesday haha.

Didn't see the red rod holder there, but I'll check the next time I'm at the spot. We'll return it to you if we find it haha!

What i did see was that someone dropped a flashlight deep underwater so a small area was illuminated at night. was really cool to see the flathead swim back and forth in that "pool light"!
I wonder if that scared some of the catfish away from us though.

[Chrisper4694]

It's a cheap one. I've got 2 on the way with line alarms anyway. I don't think I was in the same spot as you anyway. Were you fishing deep? I've been trying to stay less than 10'. Air pressure may effect them it was super low when I went it's back up now so should be good. unfortunately I won't make it back out til the weekend.

[MudCat08]

It may not be the same spot. We were trying to stay shallow but in that spot that's tough. Everything seems to be more than 10 foot deep there! We were either casting toward PA side or just casting right along the shore.

I think what helped last night was no moon. Darker night may mean more catfish activity than usual.

Weekend is supposed to be very windy and maybe some rain with the storm headed over here. I'll be out looking for more catfish sometime next week after the stormy weather stops.
Good luck if you go!

[Chrisper4694]

No moon and 100% cloud cover bait rampant...this was Wednesday...the only thing that was off was the very low air pressure. Either that or just a very unlucky night I guess

[FASTEDDIE29]

Originally Posted by MudCat08

We went last night to the Delaware river and a buddy hooked up with this little beast. Getting closer to that 30lb goal!
Fish was 25.5 pounds.

We also met a guy at the spot, who was fishing for channels - was wondering if that was Eddie, or someone else on here? He gave us some awesome tips, so thank you whoever you were!

Next week - back to the Schuylkill River.

Hey dude! It was me, the one and only, lol! Glad to see you stuck it out! Congrats on the BIG FLATHEAD! Patience is key when fishing for these river monsters! Lots of NJFers frequent certain areas of the river! See you out there man! I had a Channel cat festival that evening up to 32 inches! No matter where I went I ran into Channels! Better than nothing! TIGHT LINEZ!!!

[MudCat08]

Originally Posted by FASTEDDIE29

Hey dude! It was me, the one and only, lol! Glad to see you stuck it out! Congrats on the BIG FLATHEAD! Patience is key when fishing for these river monsters! Lots of NJFers frequent certain areas of the river! See you out there man! I had a Channel cat festival that evening up to 32 inches! No matter where I went I ran into Channels! Better than nothing! TIGHT LINEZ!!!

Those are some huge channel cats, 32" must have been over 10 pounds!
We have actually been on a channel cat dry spell this whole year. Only catching tiny one or none at all everywhere we go lol.

Thanks! We got very lucky with that fish haha.
Like you were saying that day - there was no sign of bait most of the night. The catfish bit around 9:30pm and then bait started to splash only around midnight when we were leaving. When bait started to jump, the bites stopped.

[JDTuna]

Very nice! Glad you finally got a fatty!

[MudCat08]

Thanks JD! Very excited to catch it!
The last trip to PA was a skunk once again. I think I'll stick to Delaware for now. Seem to be getting one catfish per night there so it's better than nothing!

In PA we got one weak run but no hook-up. Just that one bite the entire night too.

Hopefully we'll get them on the Delaware this week.

[MudCat08]

Didn't get any on the Delaware. Had two runoffs. On the second runoff I caught a shoe...should have taken a trophy photo. I catch some random stuff sometimes but never a shoe.
The moon was full and bright so i am guessing not much was biting.

Going back this week of course, hoping to get luckier.

[Chrisper4694]

certain species of fish love eating at night with the full moon. flatheads don't appear to be one of them.