Tuscarawas River Catfishing

[rockbass]

Hit the Tusc river tonight to fish for channels......I fished the normal hole above the riffles on 416 and had some bites. Decided to try a new spot to see where we were fishing tomorrow night. It paid off big time for me.

caught one fish on chicken liver that was 20 inches long and had a big gut. Then followed that one up with a 8 lb channel, but it only measure 26.5 inches. had several other light bites, but only managed to land 2 other channel cats each were only about 18 inches long. nothing huge tonight, but the 8 lber was a good way to start off the catfishing season.

Oh yeah now I can do the fat man shuffle since I caught a Fish Ohio channel cat!$ If this is a sign of good things to come, I should have a good year, but now I just killed that idea :p

[rockbass]

Had another decent night catfishing. Not a great night as far as size and numbers, but it wasn't too bad for this early in the season.

Ended the night with 5 channels. 3 were only about 20 inches long, but the other 2 were about the average sized with one 24 inches long and the other going 26.5 give or take a quarter inch or so. :o

Also on a bit of a bad note, I caught 2 more mud puppies :mad: but on a better note, caught a nice saugeye on a creek chub.

[wolfman]

sounds like a good start to the season, congrats on the catch

[rockbass]

Yeah it isn't a bad start, especially since I have not been hearing about much of anyone else catching any catfish yet:cool:

[ksutroubleii]

Rocky, I haven't been out on the river yet. Sounds like it's going to be better than last year. We need to get together and do some cattin.

[rockbass]

Was out for a little while tonight. fished 2 hours and landed 2 catfish. normal 20 inchers of course, but also had ahold of something nice, but naturally lost it:sad: I did add 2 more mudpuppies to my count though. I have not looked them up yet, but I am wondering if it is mating season or something