11-15-2014, 06:50 PM
When I was growing up all I wanted to catch was a catfish.
I spent a lot of years flyfishing for trout and bass. I spent several years attempting to catch a walleye. Then a few years ago I had a guy take me and show me the ropes. After getting into float tube fishing Tube Dude helped me to figure out catfish.
I spent hours upon hours studying catfish in Idaho. Since good catfishing is 3 to 5 hours away I spent a lot of time on the internet scouting with Google earth.
I can catch cats now pretty well. I am still figuring out Flatheads.
Then I had a crazy idea to catch a sturgeon on a inflatable pontoon. That dream finally came true in 2011. I got one fish that year but it was the opening of a door. I spent the next winter trying to understand them more.
This year I achieved a goal of 52 sturgeon for the year. I topped that with not a record number of Catfish but I got 154 catfish. A pile of them were 30" or better. I also caught several sturgeon over 7 foot.
Trying to answer the question what kind of a fisherman am I, that is hard. I am a bottom fisher, Pontoon fisherman, and I like to study what I am after.
I have fished for Salmon and Halibut. I have caught a lot of different types of fish. But I have narrowed my fishing to two species. Sturgeon and Cats, and of the two I would say that cats are my favorite. My son and I have a game we play. WHo ever catches the most cats is called "catmando" the others are called "catmandon't".
I am catmando. [
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I spent a lot of years flyfishing for trout and bass. I spent several years attempting to catch a walleye. Then a few years ago I had a guy take me and show me the ropes. After getting into float tube fishing Tube Dude helped me to figure out catfish.
I spent hours upon hours studying catfish in Idaho. Since good catfishing is 3 to 5 hours away I spent a lot of time on the internet scouting with Google earth.
I can catch cats now pretty well. I am still figuring out Flatheads.
Then I had a crazy idea to catch a sturgeon on a inflatable pontoon. That dream finally came true in 2011. I got one fish that year but it was the opening of a door. I spent the next winter trying to understand them more.
This year I achieved a goal of 52 sturgeon for the year. I topped that with not a record number of Catfish but I got 154 catfish. A pile of them were 30" or better. I also caught several sturgeon over 7 foot.
Trying to answer the question what kind of a fisherman am I, that is hard. I am a bottom fisher, Pontoon fisherman, and I like to study what I am after.
I have fished for Salmon and Halibut. I have caught a lot of different types of fish. But I have narrowed my fishing to two species. Sturgeon and Cats, and of the two I would say that cats are my favorite. My son and I have a game we play. WHo ever catches the most cats is called "catmando" the others are called "catmandon't".
I am catmando. [
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