08-11-2009, 04:30 AM
Did the F&G say how far those cats came into there? We have a Res down here called Milner. It has catfish that are planted. The Idaho power co dumps about 20,000 cats in there a year in the Burley area. Very few are ever caught. I have had the luck to catch 4 so far but all were small. I am thinking that the bigger cats go up stream in the summer when the oxygen is lower in the Res. There are places upstream that have rapids where the water would have more oxygen. More oxygen more bait fish. More bait fish, and more oxygen more cats I am thinking.
I know the cats Move a lot in the snake river. Some research was done in the Weiser area and one fish from that study was tagged in Brownlee, and recovered in Marsing over 100 miles away so they can get out and move.
Do you think that the cats that live there in the area you were fishing stay there year around? I know that is tough to say but do they lets say hit hard after the first of August?
I am learning a lot about river cats here in southern Idaho. And I am just trying to figure them out better. Thanks Ron
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I know the cats Move a lot in the snake river. Some research was done in the Weiser area and one fish from that study was tagged in Brownlee, and recovered in Marsing over 100 miles away so they can get out and move.
Do you think that the cats that live there in the area you were fishing stay there year around? I know that is tough to say but do they lets say hit hard after the first of August?
I am learning a lot about river cats here in southern Idaho. And I am just trying to figure them out better. Thanks Ron
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