Blue catfish are tough so your tackle really has to be on point if you intend on hooking and landing the monsters below the surface. CatDaddy is a master catfish angler and guide at CatDaddy’s Catfishin’ Adventures and he joins The Revolution this week with tips for landing big blues. You need to have terminal tackle for those big blues, CatDaddy says. A blue cat’s bite has some serious force behind it, enough so that using a regular hook that you can catch channel catfish on simply isn’t enough. Those blues will jerk their heads and snap the hook in half, he says. If you’re specifically targeting big blue catfish, CatDaddy recommends using an 8/0 all the way up to a 12/0 size hook. If you seem to be missing the bite, he says, you likely have smaller 15 to 20 pound cats and in that case it’s best to downsize to a 6/0 or 7/0 size hook.
“I’m serious about using good steel for those blues, man. They are a tough, rough fish and they have some hellacious poundage behind that bite. When they decide to chomp down and take off, ain’t nothing stopping them fish.” - CatDaddy
When targeting February blue cats, the water is still cool to cold and the fish are going to be deep. CatDaddy says anglers need to search for holes where catfish are wintering in the rivers and when fishing lakes, head to 35-40 feet of water. When the ice is off and there is a good amount of sun for a few days in a row, CatDaddy says that’s your cue to head shallower and look for big blues that are soaking up the sun. Listen in as CatDaddy also talks about how to fish the holes in wing dikes - a great place to target big cats.
Trav is a small town kid driven by hunting, fishing, rock/honky-tonk music, cold beer and his wife and kids. Being raised in a rural area surrounded by wildlife and lacking the luxurious amenities of big city life might be challenging to some; however, to Trav, it was an utter blessing. From his inception on, Trav has spent his life outdoors, he was taught at a very young age to hunt and fish and over the years these skills have molded him into a self-sufficient outdoorsman that strives to live a sustainable and God fearing lifestyle. When Trav isn’t behind the mic he’s either in the woods or on the water sharing his passion and love for the outdoors with his family and friends. So, don't bother searching for him online and you couldn’t pay him to own an iPhone, but let me reassure you of this: If there’s hunting and fishing, cold beer on tap and shaving isn’t required, he’s certainly not too far. What you see is what you get with Trav and to sum him up is simple, he doesn’t ask for a lot and he’ll never need much, a rifle, a bow, the love of his good looking wife and to be all that his children will ever need!
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