09-28-2019, 04:14 PM
"3- and I have to find the homosapien version of channel cat #5. Do you have a web site I can order it from?"
[#0000FF]Sorry. I just wrote the stuff. Didn't have any part in the chemistry thereof. Been a while since I "lost my hunting license" (married). But, as I seem to recall, most members of the human female gender respond well to the sight and smell of those green pieces of paper we use to buy things...MONEY. I can almost guarantee there is no kind of "smelly jelly" that will work the same way on ladies as the stuff in the story did on the catfish. If'n I knowed how to brew something that would...well, I'd be living on my own private island somewhere and probably not lowering myself to the level of a steenking catfish chaser.[/#0000FF]
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[size 3]"1- what was a very big cat we saw, has now grown to an ax handle between the beady eyes in her mind"[/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]Reminds me of that joke about some yankee visiting Texas and listening to the local boys tell fish stories. They kept bragging about "8 inchers" and "10 inchers". When the yankee goober began laughing one of the old boys confronted him about what he thought was so funny. The yankee said he found it funny that these guys thought a fish of only a few inches was big. To which the Texas angler replied "Down here we measure 'em between the eyes."[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]Not at all improbable that your escapee cat was 30 inches or better. I caught one near the north marina a couple of years ago that went 29". And there have been reliable reports of other anglers catching cats from Willard in excess of 30".[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]For some reason...related to the ecology and the ratio of predators to prey...Willard's cats are getting some size to them again. For quite a few years after the introduction of wipers the kitties had a tough time finding enough groceries and grew more slowly and didn't get as large. With fewer wipers eating the crawdads cats rely on...and more water to keep the rocks covered...for fish and fish food...the cats find it easier to bulk up a bit.[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]In the early 1980s...before wipers and shad...there were a lot of cats over 20 pounds caught from Willard. Heard tell of a couple in the 30# range. I personally caught many between 10-15 pounds and a couple that may have been close to 20. Here is a picture of a combined catch my wife and I scored fishing at night in the channel of the south marina. The biggest fish on the rope weighed over 14#. And the first three we caught that night were all close to 10#...and they tore up our heavy bass stringer and got loose. That's why we strung the others on that rope.[/#0000FF][/size]
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[#0000FF]Sorry. I just wrote the stuff. Didn't have any part in the chemistry thereof. Been a while since I "lost my hunting license" (married). But, as I seem to recall, most members of the human female gender respond well to the sight and smell of those green pieces of paper we use to buy things...MONEY. I can almost guarantee there is no kind of "smelly jelly" that will work the same way on ladies as the stuff in the story did on the catfish. If'n I knowed how to brew something that would...well, I'd be living on my own private island somewhere and probably not lowering myself to the level of a steenking catfish chaser.[/#0000FF]
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[size 3][#0000FF]Reminds me of that joke about some yankee visiting Texas and listening to the local boys tell fish stories. They kept bragging about "8 inchers" and "10 inchers". When the yankee goober began laughing one of the old boys confronted him about what he thought was so funny. The yankee said he found it funny that these guys thought a fish of only a few inches was big. To which the Texas angler replied "Down here we measure 'em between the eyes."[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]Not at all improbable that your escapee cat was 30 inches or better. I caught one near the north marina a couple of years ago that went 29". And there have been reliable reports of other anglers catching cats from Willard in excess of 30".[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]For some reason...related to the ecology and the ratio of predators to prey...Willard's cats are getting some size to them again. For quite a few years after the introduction of wipers the kitties had a tough time finding enough groceries and grew more slowly and didn't get as large. With fewer wipers eating the crawdads cats rely on...and more water to keep the rocks covered...for fish and fish food...the cats find it easier to bulk up a bit.[/#0000FF][/size]
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[size 3][#0000FF]In the early 1980s...before wipers and shad...there were a lot of cats over 20 pounds caught from Willard. Heard tell of a couple in the 30# range. I personally caught many between 10-15 pounds and a couple that may have been close to 20. Here is a picture of a combined catch my wife and I scored fishing at night in the channel of the south marina. The biggest fish on the rope weighed over 14#. And the first three we caught that night were all close to 10#...and they tore up our heavy bass stringer and got loose. That's why we strung the others on that rope.[/#0000FF][/size]
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