Hi guys,
I followed a link from my youtube video to here....that was last Friday..then I got lost in the forums reading. Just a ton of info here!
I thought I would share a bit more info on that video.
It was taken with the new Marcum 825c. I tried using my old camera last year, a b&w Marcum 500. No dice. It was in 26 feet of water on the 'sippi, below Redwing, MN. The b&w camera would show the fish, but the video was just to dark.
The winter water up here cleans up pretty good, then the melting starts and once the water starts rising and the river starts cleaning itself, it's a mess. Between the slit, trees and flow a camera is pretty much useless.
Otherwise there would be a video of a flathead having a bullhead for supper come May. lol!
More than the above poster questioned my cat Iding abilities! At the start of the video there was a pretty nice school of small channels, that made the title a bit deceiving. But it was the Mighty Flathead that's the true star in the clips.
Some of the shots were taken while drifting. The ones that were stationary were taken after adjusting the anchor so the boat was right above them. One of the things the camera didn't pick up was how many were there. I could only get so many in a shot. There were hundereds if not thousands of cats laying in that area.
My goal is to (hopefully) ask the MN/WI Dnr's to close the season for over the winter months for flatheads. Commercial netting and to some extent illegal snagging is not helping this Trophy fishery. We see numbers of 40 pound fish every year, a few less 50 lbs fish and a few...very few in the sixties. I think with just a bit of tweeking of the rules, we could have a better flathead fishery than we do now.
I'm not against harvest...I'm for selective harvest as with any fish.
Sorry for the opinionated first post...I don't generally go on a rant like this.:big_smile: