ARKIEPRINCE (Lake Conway, Arkansas)

Been having trouble with other people stealing catfish (or bait) off trotlines - so I've been lazy - not going to catch catfish (or bream for bait)...

Finally got a new camera so I tested it today on this 14 lb flathead. Been hearing flathead reports from upper end of lake i.e. flathead fishing ...

Been keeping an old camera on duck nest for past 30 days - about 2 hours of video - cut down to 5 minutes - mostly after babies born

The weeds gre...

Too lazy to make video for all catfish - this video is sorta a summary that mentions catch from last few days

Bream fishing was super slow a coupl...

trotline - bream - flathead

Another flathead on trotline - using bream - only used good size bream to try to limit fish to flathead and their big mouth :) :)

using bream on trotline - adding more fine catfish to the freezer

The biggest channel gave me a bath and then slapped me with his tail - but that...

got couple more flatheads for the freezer / my brother - on trotline - using large bream

Just a review of Mike's 2 day catch - see previous two video for actual weights

bream fishing was slow therefore we had to use shad as bait on about 1/3 the hooks

Got 3 on shad - 4 on bream - only one small flathead - others ...

6 catfish - 4 channel - 2 flathead - all on trotline using bream - check video for actual weight - from 4 lb 6oz to 13 lb+

My fishing buddy and I ...

Got this one on the trotline using 8/0 hook and a big bream for bait. Neighbor with more muscle than me did most the work getting this big boy of...

Trotline - using bream for bait. Don't plan to video all I catch but had to make this video to let people know - it's trotline time :) :) Over 1...

Just proof that there are some crappie in my brush pile on Lake Conway (but it's too cold and wet to catch them unless you're a bird brain

For people that forgot what a Cypress Trout (Grinnell) looks like

Dang bream keep pecking at my crappie jig so I decided to catch a few - I picked up these in about 1 hour cause I was bored and crappie weren't bit...

My neighbors have been catching plenty of Crappie but not much luck near my fishing pier - cause water was low (not much rain) - plus water tempera...

Home made yo-yo (yoyo = automatic fishing reel) floating rig i.e. 1.25" PVC floating rig to hold a yo-yo better know as a automatic fishing reel.

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The flathead I got yesterday (7.5 lb) was wide and fat while the channel catfish today was typical shape for a channel but a little on the skinny s...

Small bream finally paid off - got this 7 3/8 lb flathead on trotline Lucky I got this one - the turtles will not go away - water temperature / w...

2-3 weeks ago I decided to put up my trotline until Spring - but I kept helping a neighbor bait his trotline (he works and doesn't have time to run...

Cleaned 4 more channel cats and one 4 lb flathead - this flathead went for a bream - like they are suppose to - channels on shad

Believe it or not got a 37+ lb flathead using a couple small dead shad as bait

There are big schools of shad around here so my best guess is th...

Catching catfish - got catfish 3 out of last 4 days. All channel cats - on shad - hot dogs and magic bait. Some on trotline - some on yoyo

Th...

Just a couple of the catfish I'm catching on trotline and yoyo - using shad as bait.

The shad around my fishing pier are not very big and it's dif...

Throw back a lot of small catfish but since the water temperature is going to be dropping even more - keeping some that I would normally - let go

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Blue catfish (2 lb) from trotline - One Channel (1.75 lb) - rod n reel / magic bait - other channel cats (5 keepers) on yoyo at night / magic bait...

BTW: The largest catfish is a Blue - which I didn't notice until I was cleaning them. The Blue big belly was due to shad i.e. it was VERY full ...

Crappie fishermen are starting to get lucky but seems catfishing has slowed down - especially when fishing with rod n reel. I've been getting 10...

Started with 5 lb on yoyo using shad and baited trotline - and next morning most bait still on trotline - but when I went to bait the second night ...

Trotline catfish bait: Trying different bait along with my normal bait (bream) - got a 4 lb channel catfish and was sure it was on a hook with hot ...

Got another cheap camera to show that I'm still catching catfish - fishing with magic bait an hour or two a day (in heat) - and finally put out sma...

Still fishing a couple hours a day - and still catching small catfish. I throw back fish that are not close to 1.5 lbs (especially the 1 lb bait...

Actually got a limit (10) fish today - but threw back the smallest one. Too many catfish to clean but will be good eating

Last minute fishing trip - put over 3 lbs in freezer - largest two were 3.5 lbs each and smallest was 1.25 lb - all together the 6 fish were 10 po...

Thunderstorms = much needed rain and some water flow - channel catfish moving / feeding - only had chance to fish about 1 hour but picked up a coup...

When it's not too windy I fish two hours a day - and pick up 15-20 channel catfish - most are about 1 to 2 lbs - but I don't keep but a few of them...

I like to catch 3lb to 6lb on rod n reel - and they are big enough to fillet for freezer but lately I'm only catching 1 1/2 lb for freezer

I catc...

This 6.5 lb catfish was on a yoyo on my fishing pier - I baited at dark and found the catfish at 10:30PM - I put on 'air' but when I checked at 3:...

Windy days (day after day) - flood - tornado and swift current torn up my trotline of about 30 hooks - finally got out yesterday and had about 10-1...

Lake Conway flood video - taken 5/1/11 - still expecting more rain tonight - sure hope weather man is wrong cause water is at my door already.

Hav...

Dang storms and then very fast current made it difficult to get to my trotline - I found a half eaten Grinnel and this 4.5 lb flathead - lucky the ...

I picked up 2 channels on adjacent hooks on the trotline - and they were both within 2 oz of 8 lbs (one under - one over)

First time I was able to...

Example 2 - Bad back - strong wind - new camera problems means less fishing - less fish - fewer fish video this year (especially with new smarter t...

Example 3 - Bad back - strong wind - new camera problems means less fishing - less fish - fewer fish video this year (especially with new smarter t...

Example 1 - Bad back - strong wind - new camera problems means less fishing - less fish - fewer fish video this year (especially with new smarter t...

Also got a 13 lb channel and a 3.5 flathead but lost video (new camera and idiot operating cam)

All catfish were in last week - using bream for ba...

Past few days I've fed a million baby catfish and only got a few small ones (1 - 1.5 lb for my next door neighbor) - so today I kept feeding the ba...

feel sorry for people that think catfish do not bite on 100 degree days. Today I had a limit in catfish at one time with smallest around 1 lb a...

Was 102F today so I was lucky to get these 4 catfish . Been having tough time getting more than one keeper a day - and it was usually a 1 lb or so