HUGE CHANNEL CATFISH

[jkulesha]

eat that sucker next time

[1985BrandonLee]

thats the biggest channel ive seen so far. i just got my biggest 3 nights ago and he weighed 9lbs 3 ounces but no where near as big as yours. i did a 14lb flathead that night too not bad for me lol.

[GuGtheone]

nice channel cat. he would have been to big for me to eat, i prefer them around 5-10 LBs for eating. i would much rather have a nice clean fillet from a catfish to picking bones out of pan fish, but smoked trout is about unbeatable.

[JayWhiteFishing]

Holy crap, Nice fish

[supertechdeckpaper10]

why didnt u keep it its huge that would havemade a nice meal

[mikeymex1234]

very true about wat u say about smaller fish/ NICE CHANNEL

[SocomSniper16]

i dont get how you use 10lb test i use 50lb test braid... but then again you set your drag really low and take 10 minutes to reel in a fish i just set the hook and reel'em straight in... but that is a nice cat and i hope you have that good of luck more often

[madfishinskillz]

did you see the pot-belly on that fish

[vengence666]

nice catch....makes me wanna go do some catfishing :)

[KidODeath500]

whats the difference between catfish and bullhead?

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

@KidODeath500 catfish get a lot bigger and fight harder .

cats have forked tails and bullhead strait

[FishinFool513]

@KidODeath500 bullhead generally stay at about 5 pound max cats can go anywhere depending on what they eat

[cjaustin126]

@KidODeath500 bullhead catfish rarely reach 5 pounds in size, they are very small size bread of catfish.

[NickInTheSouthWest]

hey maybe you guys should use hot dog i live in new mexico and i use it it works

[NickInTheSouthWest]

hey i have been fishing for three years and for catfish i have used hot dog

[drewsterm7]

chicken livers the way to go

[sortisio123]

lol mike WHATS UPPPPP!!!! we need to go fishing sometime. im going to 18 mile tomorrow at 7

[KingLevrol]

Holy shit thats huge. i caught one close to that size but not that big. good man for lettin it go to.

[WV1140]

about a 20 pound blue

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

@WV1140  channel mid 20's

[Greeneyez2475]

@ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE Thank God you didnt keep it. Catfish half that size taste like absolute shit.

[26destryer]

@WV1140 

[mmmmmarcus]

Love the stren. That's my favorite line. I like 6 lb.

[MLBRENIZER]

Very nice cat! Way to go! My son just caught a nice channel & I'm going to post a video on it here before too long. I enjoy your channel.

[riverbeast12]

holy crap Now thats a CATFISH!!

[ajohnson2u]

Nice fish guys. I fish with a buddy of mine in the Susquehanna River around the Tioga/Broome County border for channel cats. These are a lot of fun to catch. Anything over 15 pounds is a tussel and over 20 can be a challenge.

[ahhshesaidshewas18]

nice work on that cat you guys let me go the smaller fish taste much better hahahahahaha hilariouse infinity thumbs up

[pasarea999]

wow

[tomlieu2]

the bigger the catfish get, the less flavor they got

[quentinm1995]

how much did it weigh

[Survival96]

30 pounder easy

[ajohnson2u]

@Survival96 Actually I'd say closer to a 22-24 pounds. I've got lots of channel catfish video I'll be uploading in the next couple weeks, including an almost identical twin to this one that won a boat in a tournament for me and my buddy. It was 34" and 22 pounds. This is a real nice cat and it may have our winner by a pound or 2.

[TylersMusic10]

do you guys keep any cats too cook? or are perch and trout the only thing you guys stick with?

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

we let all the cats go - my brothers keeps some to eat now and then.

perch and crappie we keep for the pan,

trout for the smoker

[beerisgoodnstuff]

LOL!! LET ME GO!! hahahahahha!

[Buglemintoday]

Nice Channel! That is a truly big one!

What is a chicken liver sack? And how do you rig that up? When I fish with Chicken Livers I have to wrap them in Pantyhose or CheeseCloth to keep them from coming off the hook. Is the sack similar or are you using a small ziplock bag with holes in it?

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

a chicken liver sack is similar to tying in panty hose . we use spawn net made for tying salmon eggs

[AmericansSexualPreds]

is like you sack of ballz u cut them off and hook them best cat fish bait muahah

[quentinm1995]

thats a chicken liver sack

[ljones121]

damn i prolly swam by that big sucker once or twice, and i've been swimming in that creek for yrs, ain't never caught a fish that big, lol

[PITBULL2228]

HAH nice touch with the talk bubbles

[gmail420]

good job on the release ty

[rocketdog111]

i got a channel cat a few pounds smaller than that a few days ago

[alexboii]

hahahaha let me go

[2066241]

Hey, i just got my first vid up it is just my gear but i will hopefully get a fishing one up this weekend!!

[DanOblacksmith]

BTW- Forgot to mention, for those in the western New York area if you like channel cats there is a real sleeper fishery in Tonawanda creek from Transit Rd. to Indian Falls, well, at least as far as injun territory. Don't go tresspassin' on the rez because you WILL find trouble.

(hint- might be a few muskies & wallys over ten lbs too)

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

i heard of walleye and steelhead up that way but didn't know about the cats

[DanOblacksmith]

Beastly cat for NY. That had to be downstream from Scobie hill dam? Nothing that big lurks in the upper Catt.

Must be a 15 or 20 year old fish...

[AnimeHairStylist]

thats so nice of you to let it go!! : )

[D3erslay3r1]

holy shit man i have never seen a channel that big i didnt know they got that big. the biggest channel i ever hooked into was about 10 pounds very nice fish man

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

thanks- we get a few up around the 20 lb mark but that one was by far the biggest-heard of 30's in that creek but we havnt found one yet -someone got a 32 lb channel a couple years ago

[cbaiocco]

awesome channel!  ...but the flip-flops made it 5* :-)

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

THANKS

[meistermeist]

i would of eaten that bad boy

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

THE SMALLER ONES TASTE SO MUCH BETTER

[catfisherman2014]

My biggest Channel cat weighed about 6 pounds and I thought that was big.

[AverageFisherman]

had to watch again... bigger than any channel i have caught

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

bigger than any i caught too-heard they get a lot bigger there

[Str8eningTheCurves]

Holy underwear, Batman!!!

That is a monster channel....I'd say that's the biggest channel I've ever seen.

Awesome catch.

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

thanks

thats the biggest ive seen in person-heard they get even bigger there

[tkbell07]

That was a MONSTER channel!

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

still mikes personal best-theres bigger ones out there

[majumica]

wat bait dids you udse

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

chicken liver

[Bribickhed6]

nice channel cat

[moronchicken]

Everyone is correct. It IS a channel catfish. Ictalurus Punctatus. Trouble with the large adults is, they get very dark(except of course for captive bred albino) resembling flathead catfish which get MUCH larger, and worse, they lose the fork in their juvenile and adolescent tails which can be a dead give away. This IS an impressive channel catfish, though!

[Str8eningTheCurves]

are you saying that Channel's look like flatheads?

[AverageFisherman]

i hope not....

big chanels are easily confused as BLUE CATS, but no WAY can they be confused as FLATHEADS!!!!

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

thanks for watchin - wish we had a scale with us that day- we caught and weighed 20 lb'rs and this fish is still the best one mike ever landed

[SCfisherman91]

yeah im using chicken liver next time. definitley.

[Littlekanawhamaster]

Thats a nice channel man my pb is 36inches 25lbs but really nice channel cat

[IndyFishing]

That is a nice size channel cat right there now, what did you guys catch that on?

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

we always use chicken livers under a slip float

[ddkelso9003]

def. not a channel cat

[15pop92]

ther is no way that is a channel it is a flathead

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

wish we had flatheads in newyork-only channels but we get some bigguns

[fishsplash]

Thats a channel catfish. Look at it.. We get channels up to 35lbs easy here as well. It's a channel catfish.

[river3782]

15pop92

Their no way you no your fish See the anal fin has a rounded edge and the head is not flat

[15pop92]

dude u r retarded as fuck

[BigFishMike92]

only 5 or 6 weeks before the cat run

[fished64]

dam nice chanel cat dude!!!

[ROADSNAKE90ROADSNAKE]

thanks . the kids got me beat for biggest channel cat but i gonna try some cutbait this year and see if i can top his with a 30 lb'r

[15pop92]

dawg if u throw some shad i already know u will catch some big ones.

throw em whole though and deadline

[BigFishMike92]

Im gonna get one bigger this year.

[Louisvillecpl24]

nice Bluecat!

[river3782]

looks like a channel cat , The anal fin has a rounded edge

[Louisvillecpl24]

wow! it was so big i didnt even notice... HELL OF A CHANEL! my biggest channel is a mere 10 lbs. NICE!