My first Tusc river flathead catfish this year!

[ksutroubleii]

I was fishing one of my normal spots on the Tuscarawas River today around 2:30 today. Air temp was around 70, not sure on the other stuff. Cast out 4 nightcrawlers on a 5/0 circle hook to the bottom edge of a semi deep hole. Waited about 5 minutes and then WHAM!!, pole bent over and stayed over. I was able to horse him easily so I figured it to be a small channel. Nope not this time...a 37.5" flatty.

No scale, no camera, and only an eldery gentleman watching me from the other side of the river as a witness.

I hope to catch that one or a larger friend of his next time.

Mental note...put digital camera in tackle box.

[jason454ci]

Way to go!!! Congrats on the flattie brother!! :thumbsup:

[Larry]

Nice catch. Better get that camera fired up. Anymore stories like this and we might have to call them.............. Fish stories.
FOR the record. I caught a 40 incher last year after the spawn and it was
27lbs. It problaby could have gone 35 prior to spawn.
You had a nice fish.
way to go
thanks
Larry

[loanwizard]

Great job! I'll be at Salt Fork tomorrow night. I hope I have a lil luck like that too!

[H2O Mellon]

WOW! Great job man. Way to go.

[doughboy]

good job Floyd. That means i am fooling around to much and need to get out on the river

[Baitkiller]

KSU

Real nice Tabby for anytime but with the present water temps, wow!!

Time to update your profile on your PB Cat?? ;)

[tcba1987]

That's a darn nice Flattie for the TUSC, my biggest last year was only 32 inches i think. weighed in at 15 lbs 1 oz, maybe i need to try for some flatties, i thought it was too early !! NICE JOB !!!

[flathunter]

Congrats on a very nice fish.

[Netmanjack]

Way to go Floyd, for a second,just a second I thought you meant 37.5 pounds! lol.....to bad it wasn't. It must have been at least 23 > 25 :cool:

[teaysvalleyguy]

Always nice to see kitties being caught in Ohio. Keep up the good work.

[dinkbuster1]

dude your killin me! im trying really hard to leave the flats alone for another 2 weeks.....

[H2O Mellon]

Floyd,

Thanks alot man :rolleyes: , thanks to you I was hoping for a fluke Flathead all day todya & thought Dink had one, but it ended up just being a 7# channel on steriods. :p

[rockbass]

Way to go on the Flattie, here I was thinking it was kind of early.......now you got my blood going:p That is a nice one, btu there are lots of larger ones out there.......I am sure you will stumble onto a few more nice ones. Maybe I should be switching to worms though

[tcba1987]

yeah there are alot of larger ones :rolleyes: thats just your every day average tusc river flattie........yeah right !!! NICE FISH !!!

[rockbass]

Man if that is the average, than I better catch up.....I don't average fish that size from the tusc.


Heading for flatties tonight......hopefully I can start the year for flatties out with a decent one. Channels have been good to me so far, now it is also Flattie time!