lil texas cats

[psychobilly]

Hi ya'll! I was a search'n round on the net looking fer some good fish'n links and ran across this place. I figured I would do sum browze'n and when I get to da Texas thread and didn't see no dang pics, well we can't have that FB Dan!!!

Here's a few cats I've managed ta land in da skiff....

This one was on da hook fer a while...
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0756.jpg


It was blow'n it's a$$ off the night we landed this ole girl in da skiff! I liked ta never run dem lines that night...

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0575.jpg


She's just an old ply wood boat, 115 Johnson, letric choke! The ole Lief Ericson is 14 this year and it's just like the day Uncle Jeral launched it. That's right, all plywood and cypress, and built down the ba-ya <<<spelt bayou but that's correct way ta say it. Them's there's redneck werds. olo

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0634.jpg


Not real practical fer trot'line'n but it's an all round good fish'n/hunt'n skiff, and comes in real handy fer them nights ya pull in about 3 or 400 pounds of cats! That front hold has had a lil over 400 pounds of cats in it before and it will hold a heck of alot more!!!!

Oh, and just so ya know the psychobilly name I got from my buddies, cuz I'm one crazy a$$ redneck.

Nice ta meet ya and look forward ta reading some good fishing stories in here!!!

edit... I had bout 6 other pics posted but man, 4 pic limit???????

[newjersey_fisherman]

wow good job man keep it up those are nice

[masterfisher3]

where do you fish in texas?
man come south to taylor and go to granger spillway when the water is let out some big a$$ cat's

[newjersey_fisherman]

you had 400lbs of cats

[psychobilly]

yeah I think, now don't quote me, but if memory serves me it turned out to be 150 lbs of fillets. Man that was in December. October through March is my favorite time to run lines. It's nice and kewl, and I head across th lake before daylight and deer hunt in the forest fer bout 4 hours then spend teh rest of the day on the lake fishing and then before dark, right back after the deer....

[newjersey_fisherman]

wow omg thats alot of good eats how you cook it i fry

[psychobilly]

Well, my best friend has a twin brother and they had their Bday party planned. I was supposed to be there but I werk overseas and as luck would have it I was stuck here in Australia.... Mike said he had 1 quart bag left after they finished fry'n. It was a kick'n party too I was told! His brother got hammered, neighbors called the law cuz of the music too loud, and you know when a red neck says, "hold my beer!" yep Brian almost went ta jail. I recon they fed 35 or 40 adults and ain't no tell'n how many kids.

I use nut'n but Louisiana Fish Fry in teh Blue pack. A minner bag werks best fer batter'n em, you know, the big brim bags. Den big boys I cube up small, grease HOTT. I start at 400 and fry around 375. Course I add Tony's to one batch fer us around the fry pot.

What bout you, how ya'll kook ya'lls fish up yonder??? I'm always like try new things.

[newjersey_fisherman]

what is your job that you have to go from usa to austrilia i always want to fish for austrilian bass

[psychobilly]

I'm oil field trash! HAHAHAHA

[newjersey_fisherman]

what does that me you work on an oil field and how often do you come home to us i have always wanted to get some austrilian ugly stiks they sell some nice ones only over there

[fedex619]

:eek:wow:eek: first let me welcome you to the site and 2 let me say that you had some real big fish well good luck on your next fishing trip:D

[Whiskerstalker]

Hi ya'll! I was a search'n round on the net looking fer some good fish'n links and ran across this place. I figured I would do sum browze'n and when I get to da Texas thread and didn't see no dang pics, well we can't have that FB Dan!!!

Here's a few cats I've managed ta land in da skiff....

This one was on da hook fer a while...
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0756.jpg


It was blow'n it's a$$ off the night we landed this ole girl in da skiff! I liked ta never run dem lines that night...

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0575.jpg


She's just an old ply wood boat, 115 Johnson, letric choke! The ole Lief Ericson is 14 this year and it's just like the day Uncle Jeral launched it. That's right, all plywood and cypress, and built down the ba-ya <<<spelt bayou but that's correct way ta say it. Them's there's redneck werds. olo

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/blairr_2006/fishing/DSCF0634.jpg


Not real practical fer trot'line'n but it's an all round good fish'n/hunt'n skiff, and comes in real handy fer them nights ya pull in about 3 or 400 pounds of cats! That front hold has had a lil over 400 pounds of cats in it before and it will hold a heck of alot more!!!!

Oh, and just so ya know the psychobilly name I got from my buddies, cuz I'm one crazy a$$ redneck.

Nice ta meet ya and look forward ta reading some good fishing stories in here!!!

edit... I had bout 6 other pics posted but man, 4 pic limit???????


I'm definately likin the boat. Thats the kind I need fer river fishin.

[lvbndad29]

First off welcome to the site! Nice cats! What lake do you fish? That is a nice boat! Who makes it?

[psychobilly]

Thanx ta the comments on my skiff. Like I said in my post my Unlce Jeral built it 14 years ago. It was originally built fer oyster'n down the ba~ya *bayou * and lvbndad29 I fish a bunch of lakes down my way. Toledo Bend, Lake Livingston, Lake Houston, Lake Conroe, The trinity river... man there's loads of places to fish. I'm heading to teh coast next weekend when I get home and we gunna do some fishing. Gunna grab the ole lanterns and do some floundering if the weather's right...

Once again thanks fer the kind werds fellers.

[newjersey_fisherman]

well have a good trip and good luck

[masterfisher3]

real nice cats
i went cat fishing today only got a few littlins but dim damn gar where snappin lines 1 after the other
i landed 2 1 footers but lost a 3 and 5 foot gars and dem suckers were haulin a$$

[newjersey_fisherman]

get um next time i want to catch a gar none in jersey did you were catch a monster gar like huge ones i saw them before on the histroy channel they were hugeit was so cool

[masterfisher3]

well there is a 10 foot gar that used to live in there but i think he died

[newjersey_fisherman]

that sucks i would have waned to catch something like that they are cool

[masterfisher3]

yeah a little one footer fights like a well sized bass
plus they're not to bad table food wise

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool i love fish with big fight thats the best kind to get

[masterfisher3]

oh yeah and how hard it is to not break the line is great

[newjersey_fisherman]

yes it has some skill you cant just reel them in or you will break the line you have to make sure you dont let them go into rocks you have to pull up and reel down

[masterfisher3]

yeah try fighting in a 3 footer with no steel liter and the fight of an underwater truck

[newjersey_fisherman]

wow that must have been so fun hope they dont bite through the line thats why need leter:):):):cool:

[masterfisher3]

yeah i usually drop out some cat bait then put a bunch of minnows down to bottom and try for big white bass
but every so often i go the the end of the drop and throw a gar bait in there

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool i will have to try that some time

[masterfisher3]

yeah every fish down here in texas is bigger tougher and tastier
you gotta come down sometimes

[newjersey_fisherman]

well i have been there one time my dad is a cowboys fan and he trys to go every year but i went once but there is not enoigh time to go fishing but he saw a bass tournament at the gaylord were he stays

[masterfisher3]

you just gotta go to taylor and look up granger lake
go there and go mto the spillway near the dam which is near wilson fox park

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool i will have to tell my dad to go there with me next time we go

[masterfisher3]

yeah central texas
great fishing

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool thanks for all the info

[masterfisher3]

anytime...

[newjersey_fisherman]

what do you get in texas

[masterfisher3]

just about anything
all types of catfish,carp(not the eat anything in there way carp but common carp),bass(all from largemouth to striper),gar,crappie,and anything down in houston like croaker,redfish

so you have lots of variety

[newjersey_fisherman]

i would like to go croaker and redfish fishing i heard there are good eats

[kawey]

lil cats my a$$ those suckers are huge

[kawey]

i would like to go croaker and redfish fishing i heard there are good eats

do you ever fish the jersey shore what can u catch up there

[masterfisher3]

yeah the croaker we caught were very small so we headed and gutted em and picked meat off
very tasty fish

[mithman100]

i cAught alot of little croaker when i was up at colonial beach camping but we didnt keep any though. also i heard any cats over like 10 pounds you shouldnt eat cause they can hold in more toxins when they get much bigger. So you can eat blue cats bigger then that without getting sick or what?

[nimrod666]

Well I never heard that one about the toxins. I don't eat big cats because I like 1 to 2 lbs cooked whole in the broiler or the smoker. Salt, pepper, butter and a splash of lemon juice, fit for a king. I photo the big ones and release them. If they are fat they taste terrible anyway. Let them make more babies for my pleasure and table. Let me add before Fatboy jumps on me that I do all my fishing from lakes and ponds and not running water. I understand that big cats from running water taste better than those from stagnant water and are not as fat.:D

[newjersey_fisherman]

well on the jersey shore we get weakfish, strippers, hybrid strippers, flounder summer and winter, tautog, black sea bass, bluefish, blue crabs, hard clams, various sharks, black drum, northern kingfish, atlantic bonito, scrup(porky), noerthurn searobin, white perch, northern puffer, red drum, spinny dogfish, atlantic markerel, american shad, smooth dogfish, oyster toadfish, spanish mackeral sand tiger shark, atlantic croaker, atlantic cod, and sandbar shark thats alot but thats all we get all of what i know

[mithman100]

im sorry could you repeat that?

[newjersey_fisherman]

lol well here it gos again well on the jersey shore we get weakfish, strippers, hybrid strippers, flounder summer and winter, tautog, black sea bass, bluefish, blue crabs, hard clams, various sharks, black drum, northern kingfish, atlantic bonito, scrup(porky), noerthurn searobin, white perch, northern puffer, red drum, spinny dogfish, atlantic markerel, american shad, smooth dogfish, oyster toadfish, spanish mackeral sand tiger shark, atlantic croaker, atlantic cod, and sandbar shark thats alot but thats all we get all of what i know

[mithman100]

im sorry i didnt catch a word of that

[newjersey_fisherman]

lol hear it gos again well on the jersey shore we get weakfish, strippers, hybrid strippers, flounder summer and winter, tautog, black sea bass, bluefish, blue crabs, hard clams, various sharks, black drum, northern kingfish, atlantic bonito, scrup(porky), noerthurn searobin, white perch, northern puffer, red drum, spinny dogfish, atlantic markerel, american shad, smooth dogfish, oyster toadfish, spanish mackeral sand tiger shark, atlantic croaker, atlantic cod, and sandbar shark

[lvbndad29]

Well I never heard that one about the toxins.


Out here in wv, md, and va apparently there is alot of chemicals in the water. The wvdnr has warnings posted on their website about what is in the waters in wv and how much fish you should eat. Big fish hold more of the chemicals in their bodies from being in the water longer.
Here is the link to wvdnr consumption advisories. http://www.wvdnr.gov/fishing/Regs08/FISHregsConsumptionAdvise08web.pdf

[masterfisher3]

hmm i've never heard of the toxins either
well i took the boat out today and got some nice bassranging from 2-3 1/2 pounds
sorry i couldn't get a video but it not the roomiest boat ever though next time we head out were bringing catfish bait for the biggins that live in there
also there were a bunch of perch on top of the water and some nice bass eatin em

[newjersey_fisherman]

i have never herd of it but some fish naturaly contain mercury the metal and you are not suppost to eat the big ones

[masterfisher3]

speaking of unedible
the bass i caught had worms so that whole pond(small lake) is bad
and the second one didnt have it but its the bacteria in the water meaning that alot of the stuff they eat has it or produces it

[newjersey_fisherman]

about contaminated fish my grampa told be a story about a man who was fishing caught a pumpkin seed sunfish and got stuck by one of the fin spins long story short water was so dirty he lost his whole thumb from infection

[masterfisher3]

yeah infections are bad in small ponds so always look for signs of disease
also if a high amount of hydrilla is in the pond then be specially careful because most high amounts of hydrilla can carry amounts of the bacteria that gives fish worms

[newjersey_fisherman]

what is hydrilla

[mithman100]

its like a bad weed but in water and its near impossible to get rid of. if you look in the video on my va catfishing 1 in the video forum the first cat that you see had this big cut / sore on the side of its body and you can see it. it was nasty. the fish were like braindead because of how bad the water is. when i put them back in they tried to swim into the rocks along the bank.

[newjersey_fisherman]

i have looked it up and it is bad stuff very invasive but what does it do to the fish http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Hydrilla_USGS.jpg

[mithman100]

they said it harbors bacteria that can give the fish diseases

[masterfisher3]

yes that and it is like an air stealer any amount of oxygen slowly goes down as the hydrilla grows.Moss on the other hand is not as fatal to fish because it is also not so outspread.Lastly small amounts of hydrilla are bad and should be removed as fast as possible by grabbing it and taking it out then getting a small shovel and digging some of the dirt under it to ensure it doesnt grow back.

[newjersey_fisherman]

i dont think i have ever seen this before and i have not looked for it

[masterfisher3]

well be sure to pay attention.you might think its harmless vegitation but could kill some trophy fish

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool if i see it i will try to get it out

[masterfisher3]

glad i can help

[newjersey_fisherman]

thanks your a good guy

[masterfisher3]

lol thanks.

[newjersey_fisherman]

no problem keep it up good luck on the water and get some big fish for us

[psychobilly]

I don't eat big cats because I like 1 to 2 lbs cooked whole in the broiler or the smoker. Salt, pepper, butter and a splash of lemon juice, fit for a king. I photo the big ones and release them. If they are fat they taste terrible anyway. Let them make more babies for my pleasure and table.

Nimrod, I used ta feel da same cottin pivken way till an ole timer seen me fixen to release a big fat cat. he said, "WAIT!!! WUT R U DOING BOY?!?!?!" I says let'n him go, I gots my picture.... he showed me how to clean em and it was over after that. He says the trick is to hang then from head and cut their tail, let them blead fer an hour or so..... I even fillet the bellys but what I do as I said before ice them in cooler of ice wader fer 2 to 3 days and it will pull the fat out.

[newjersey_fisherman]

cool thanks for the advice thanks a lot i guess that's how to do it

[FATBOY DAN]

Nimrod, I used ta feel da same cottin pivken way till an ole timer seen me fixen to release a big fat cat. he said, "WAIT!!! WUT R U DOING BOY?!?!?!" I says let'n him go, I gots my picture.... he showed me how to clean em and it was over after that. He says the trick is to hang then from head and cut their tail, let them blead fer an hour or so..... I even fillet the bellys but what I do as I said before ice them in cooler of ice wader fer 2 to 3 days and it will pull the fat out.
Yup thats how you do the big one hang by the head.Lot more meat of bigger ones but then again get 10 -3lbers and you got a good fish fry

[texasfisherman]

psych billy where on earth did u catch these cause im in the same area and would love to pull out cats that big....was it near houston?

[psychobilly]

lake conroe buddy. all day long they's fish like these.

[texasfisherman]

ok thanks a bunch what did u use as bait