[Matt77]

I'm fishing at night again all by myself. Lol kinda happens more often then not. Anyways I got to BSing with some guy out there about this and that and then we get to talkin about how big the cats get around here. So his story goes something like this.

He was out on his air boat in the back waters of the St Johns River gigging frogs or lookin for them anyway and he comes across the this 100 lb cat sitting on a sandbar. He didn't have any pole with him but wanted the fish anyway. So he stabbed it with his gigging stick. The fork broke off the end and the fish got away. He said he chased this fish for a total of three nights. He was out there the next night and saw the fish again and this time he shot the fish in the back three times with his pistol and the fish still got away. The third night his daddy was with him and luck if they didn't see that damn fish again. So his daddy shot it with the gator harpoon. His daddy got the fish in the boat and the guy says thats my fish! And the dad says I landed it! But the son says yeah but I crippled it!..................................... And the gig fork was still in it.

 

[Andrewdouv]

never heard anything like that. if its true, its one helluva story!

 

[playin4funami]

sounds like someone was hitting the bottle a little too hard when that story came out,lol

 

[m slayton]

and by the way i really honestly don't know what to think any more but if you add up the evadence we collected " catching underwear that one time and catching that gar with a scredriver in his mouth all signs point to the 100 lb catfish <-- could be bubba the plumber ? did those fellers say when they stuck that big catfish that the cat fish yelled dammit stop that !!! LOL LOLOLOL .

but all joking aside thats the best part about river fishin you never know whats out there or just how big they get or just what theck will happen ..

i can say tho my fishing buddy matt is 1 lucky person. i can fish by my self and not catch a thing , but it seems like when we do get to meet up and fish together the stars align and records get set or broken and i'll leave the records a secret so more fish tales can be told LOL gl guys n gals

 

[lforet2002]

It is what it is...A story..A pretty funny one too...I don't have any funny stories like that but I did see a 100 ld blue cat caught once off a trotline..Me and a buddy were fishing near the grain elevator just outside New Orleans in the Mississippi river and this old black feller was checking his trotlines in a lil ole jon boat..We watched him struggling with something but he was pretty far off and there was a lot of splashing..He started to make a bee line straight at us and when he pulled his boat up to shore he asked us for a hand..He had the fish tied off on the side of his boat and said he couldn't get him in the boat and asked if we could help carry him to his truck..He had a scale on the truck and the fish weighed just a smidgen under 100 lbs though he probably had 10lds of grain in his belly too..We asked what he was gonna do with him and he said this is what he does for a living and that he sells the meat to the local markets, but that this fish was too big..He said he just wanted to check the weight on him and release him..Said he had been fishing for 30 years and that was the biggest cat he'd ever caught..He said it was nothing for him to catch 30lb fish and he caught those quite often..We put the big fish back in the river and he swam off like nothing was wrong..He gave us each a few small cats for us to take home to eat for the help we gave him, and it was a good jump start to filling the 90 qt ice chest we had with eaters when we got done fishing..It was one helluva day fishing, caught quantity,not much quality, but the old feller sure set a fire under us after seeing that 100lber..

 

[backwoodsman68geric]

Good stories. Heres one that one of the locals likes to pitch out at the cabins. Him n his dad were bankpoling years ago, the time changes with each of his tellings, lol. They pulled up to a set with a banger on and shined the light and there was a fish eye on each side of the boat so they cut the line and eased on outta there, lol. Heres a true story, my family still has the picture cut from a newspaper. Gramps was duck hunting for meat and to sell along the Illinois river in a back water lake that still exists. He had a few ducks in the boat and happened to look over the side and seen a big flathead in about 3' or so of water. He jumped out and grabbed it and threw it in the boat. It went to floppin and the boat being a little wooden flat bottom skiff gramps was afraid it was going to flip so he grabbed the 12ga and gave it a load of no.4's. Well you can guess what happened. The flatheads head didnt stop the charge from going clear thru the bottom of the boat. He barely made it to shore without sinking, lol. A local storekeeper in Naples took his picture with it hung up in the front of the store and it ran in the local paper.