[morivercatfisher]

My buddy and I are in a little fishing contest against a few of our friends. Picture one and two is my fish I am 6ft1in 240lbs. Picture 3 is his fish he is about 5ft9in 140lbs, I weighed mine he didn't weigh his...we were wanting opinions on who's you think is bigger. Thanks.

 

[Balex123]

Wow, nice fish. At first look, I thought the one on the far right looks the biggest. It sure is thick, but as far as weight, I would put them both within a few pounds of each other.

 

[m slayton]

id say the first 2 pics are the heavy fish 8-10 lbs maybe and the second looks longer but about 7-8 lbs . were they both caught from the same hole as in close together ? and could that fat one be the momma with eggs and the long skinny one be the male ? just a guess with some ideas nice FISH yall ame making me want to hit the river early ...

and is that dip bait yall were catching them on ?

 

[Brenardo]

I think the fish are close to the same weight.

My guess would be 8-10 lbs on yours and 5-7 lbs on yer buddy's but I haint weighed a fish since I quit bass fishin.

 

[cattinhoosier]

Nice fish a couple measurements would have helped. I caught one this weekend 11.3# it was 29 1/2" long.

 

[morivercatfisher]

no i caught mine at this lake right before you get to mark twain lake on sonnys dipbait there some cabins there we stayed at. my buddys was caught at busch wildlife lake 33 this year on same bait. i went there in july so im not sure about mine being pregnant it was a fattie though. the head on mine seems bigger though too??

 

[backwoodsman68geric]

3rd pic fish looks a little bigger to me? 9lbs maybe?

 

[m slayton]

its good to see dip bait actually getting cats over 5lbs . or it could just be florida has way smaller cats and i never used dip baits but seen a few people at the lake a time or 2 using it and catching 1-4 lb cats perhaps i should try it sometime.

do you guys use it at the rivers ? if so does it do as well there too ? and if you were looking for 15lb and up channel cats would you still use it ?

ty for sharing your pics and info

 

[JoeDaCatKing]

I would say both fish are in the 5-8lb range very nice channels

 

[Hemus Bocephus]

Yep! i'd say high 5 to low 8 on both! Hard to tell in pics one on the right looks like it might weigh a bit more!

 

[backwoodsman68geric]

We rarely catch any blues or channels on dipbait that exceed 4 or 5 lbs. It happens but not often. Matter of fact our go to bait for eating size blues is Bee-Jays doughbait. If I was after cats above 5 lbs dough/dip wouldnt be my choice. In farm ponds all bets are off, we had one pond the cats got up to 15lbs but all the cats only took dip bait and only a few brands at that. Cutbait, worms all the standard produced nothing/zilch of the cats. We fished the pond for years and only the dipbaits produced.

 

[morivercatfisher]

I weighed and measured my channel cat it was 10 pounds and 29inches long, my buddies i was trying to figure out how big his was it looked around 8-10 to me from pic. i wasnt there when he caught his, so i guess ill never know lol thanks guys for all your input.