02-09-2005, 06:16 AM
Joe- I think they were around 18 inches long. It has been about eleven years since I have been there, so I don't know what the water conditions have been through since then. There are a lot of rocks on the north east side and it looked like quite a few prople had been fishing from them. Where we caught the catfish was in the deeper channel going to the north from the rocks towards the dam. A friend and I were float tubing there at the time. They put up a pretty good pull fighting them from a tube. A local farmer, Carl Dearden, who is now deceased used to do a lot of business with me in Delta. I asked him about the fish in the reservoir and he confirmed at the time there were lots of big channel cats in there and often in the summer they would get sucked through the dam into the irrigation ditches running to his fields in Garrison. His son would take a pitchfork and walk the ditches looking for them when the water was turned off and getting shallow and stab them with the fork to get them out to take home. Carl said some went ten pounds, but I never saw them. No guarantees now. Acey
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