Actually they kept me out of trouble! I was only able to spend a few hours fishing with them on Sunday morning. 
I’m not sure if I could of taken much more with those two clowns. 
No seriously, I wish I could have spent the entire time they were fishing with them, 
It was a good time! 
He’s too ugly to show his face! 
Here is a picture of his arm! 
What about this little kitty? 
Hi Greenfin,
Yea, I’m here- thanks to C-A, I’m back in business. 
He may wish he didn’t tell me how to fix the computer though!
Good seeing you guys this weekend!
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North Dakota didn’t offer too much good catten waters.
I might take offense to that! But I guess it is posted on the MN catters forum.
I do not have a fishing buddy for you, but I can tell you who not to go cattin with!
The picture is of a North Dakota Catfish!
OK I guess that was legal fishing water although I was kicked out of there by the 
MN Game Warden. BRAINK 
cleared that up the the Warden’s boss 
. I just wasn’t on my home turf and didn’t want to argue. I’ve learned to listin if they aren’t writing tickets .
I will try to leave you cities catters alone and post a thing or two back in the Red River Forum.
Greenfin and CA if you show up, I have a bottle of wine or something still chilling in the barn 
.
Here is a picture of my kids and a freind when we did get out last year- All were released after the picture.
I think I can beat that!, 
I will give you– 6 opened jars of 3 year old dip bait, it is starting to smell just as you described him smelling 
. Yes, it will bring tears to your eyes! 
. I will also throw in a 25′ rope you can tie off on shore somewhere when unloading your boat,….. you said that was all bowfin was good for—- holding onto the rope– and he wasn’t real good at that! 
Try to beat that! 
Both my RiverPro and my pontoon are set up to fish up to eight rods off of. 
I do not use boards to hold my bait off to the side, just heavier weights. 
C-A was right with being able to fish with 2 rods apiece. 
What has happened to Briank, 
he has gone missing again? 
I thought he would have surely posted his resume to be C-A’s fishing partner.
Oh well, I guess not even a new RiverPro will get you a fishing partner 
C-A.
See you in July Mike. 
Hey C-A 
3 days and no apps. to be your fishing partner, even though you will have a brand new RiverPro. 
No wonder you let Bowfin fish with you.
I don’t want to sound as if I do not think that the C-4 is a good reel. They are, its just I do not think that they are the right reel for catfish. I am sure it is because of the higher speed gears that are in them. I do catch #’s of 20 lb + cats which just seem to be too hard on the gears. I will now be replacing the gears with gears out of the C-3 reals as they seem to work well for me without problems.
I would only buy a C-4 if you are buying it for the right reason, and that being you want a higher speed reel. If that is not what you are looking for, I would save a litle money (about $10) and get the C-3’s.
tpntp
Normally, I do not post a picture more than once but if you look in the background, behind my daughter 
, that is a 6500 C-4, before I ripped out its gears
I own 11 c-4’s. 9-5600’s and 2-6500’s. I own that many because at one time I did think thay were the best reel for what I use them for. I am a catfisherman and these reels all have bait clickers. I liked the 5600 because of the smaller spool size as I spool my reels with Fireline and it takes a lot less line or backing to fill a 5600 compared to the 6500. My complaint 
with them is that I am constantly ruining the gears and having to replace them. I no longer 
buy these reels but buy the c-3’s instead. I have never had to replace the gears in my c-3’s. I think this happens because the c-4 is a higher speed reel and with the bruit force a catfish has, they tend to rip out 
the gears. Now this may be a better choice for pike 
than cats as the higher speed may help you vary your retrieves more. I do believe you will not be disappointed in any Abu reel you buy. 
Hey C-A,
You will have fun with that RiverPro. You will see parts of rivers most people only dream about getting to. Last year at the end of the summer and into fall when the Red almost dried up, I had the only boat that could get around. 
It is kind of fun to have the river to yourself. I am home most evenings, give me a call when ever it is convenient for you.
Briank, don’t worry about bugs, I do not think I used even a full can of OFF last year and I am on the river every evening and I also always wear shorts. They do come out about 1 hour before sunset until about 1 hour after sunset. Sometimes the biting flys 
can be bothersome, especially before a rain. But who ever heard of flys following a catfish boat!
Hey CA,
Don’t knock those loomis rods—– they make great bait rods. You can actually reel something in with one besides “sticks”. And as far as getting in a “real” fish on 6 lb test, I think I have seen it done up there in the open deeper areas, trouble is, it takes all day. I am not sure a walnut hunter would have that much stamina.
Just got word from Frank and Clark from NE that they will be there also. So that is catfishermen from NE, ND, KS, CO, MN, IA and IL that will be there for at least part of that week. It will be fun!
Come on Bowfin, the snaugers will be biting also.
Wow! I did not realize we had such a dignitary among us. But I seem to miss things on occasion. Last saturday night at my sons hockey game, a guy came and stood beside me and we talked through the game. He was there watching his nephew play who was on the other team. It was someone you guys from down around cities might recognize. I think his name was Randall McDaniel, he sure is a nice guy!
Some fisherman misidentify a channel in its spawning colors as a blue. Channels during the spawn will sometimes turn a dark blue or even black color. Some fisherman who catch these fish, after catching the lighter colored channels during the spring, will think these fish are not the same fish they had caught before. With their dark colors they will just assume they are a blue catfish. I am not saying that it can’t happen, but it is highly unlikely that a blue will be this far north. A good freind of mine who guides for blues in TN says there are very few blues in the Mississippi north of St. Louis.
The fish below is a channel in its spawning colors.
Looks like a channel to me, It would be tough to tell the diference between a blue and a channel from that angle, but I know there are very few blues this far north. There are a few, but I have never seen one. But then again I have never seen one in person, period. Only in pictures.
You did pick it up didn’t you?
Hi Briank,
I fish every day during the summer. I think all my weekends during prime cat time are already booked so during the week work out for me also. Unfortanately, I do have a “real” job other than my “reel” job. So most my guide trips are evening trips. I am usually home and ready to fish by about 4 PM, if you guys could arrive about then we could go out and spend the evening bad mouthing bowfin and every other person that has put us down on this forum. But then again that might not leave much time for fishing. The next morning though, I will have to set you guys up to go out on your own, as I said earlier I have a “real” job.
Have you ever operated a RiverPro?
By the way Briank, that last picture of yours is a Flat snacking on a bullhead, Channels like them also
Wow! That is you, Briank? with a kitty. And yes I do believe you were using a channel for bait, your fish still has the teeth marks in its tail. I would think that the channel would have let go of it when you were reeling it in.
Good looking fish, sorry I can’t say that about the fisherman.
See ya, catmaster or is it master catter, I know it is master something 
Briank,
I think you are on to something. It is all starting to make sense. Bowfin’s real name is “Terry” or is it “Teri”. I will guess her last name at one time was “Dean”. Man with a mind like yours, you have to make a good catfisherman.
I am not sure if a noodlehead can noodle!
Come on Briank, Bowfin is looking for his “bath”…. oh, um… I mean “boat” buddy
A PM defending me?…… I hope I paid him enough!
your right, no Vol. III But I am bidding on ebay, act surprised at christmas.
Gator– yes, even though many of us have not met, I do have more rspect for these guys than I show. It is just so much fun to give them a little sh@#
We all need to laugh, especially in the winter.
Good one Gator! I was starting to wonder that myself. 
Do you suppose he really likes catfishing? or is it the catfisherMEN.
Bowfin, if my memory is right, 
that monster snauger was almost a 14 …. incher. I think it only made 3 pieces of bait. But man, WHAT A FIGHT! I was sure the only thing I was reeling in was my cutbait. You should have seen CA’s eyes 
as I lifted (net was too big) it into the boat. Man I was sure he was going to ask to have his picture taken with it too. But no, that was not good enough for him, he wanted his own! Unfortunately the snaugers stopped biting just as fast as they had started and that was are only one. But CA, there is always hope for this year.
I do believe our room is full, but catfishrod may want to share a room. What do you think catfishrod?
The heck with the other fish!
Sorry, I was so hard on you, its just I normally am replying to Briank or Bowfin. And I guess I am jealous as it has been such a long time since I got to feel that wonderfully smooth skin those kitty’s have.
That sure is the prettiest lookin flat I have ever seen. Come on, get your eyes checked, that is a CHANNEL. They are two completely different looking fish….. Very good looking fish, I will add.
Maybe you did catch one of them snaugers and this fish just ate it on the way up.
Can you tell, I’m jealous!
You notice how all those walleye & b[Ooops, did I just say that out loud?!] fishermen jump right in when you ask a question like that. I bet they spend hours chasing them bullheads. It gives them pratice, so when they hook one of them little bass or walleye they know how to get it in. Someday we may have to teach them how to catch “real” fish. I know bullhead is the bait for your flats, but what about your channels? Bullhead does make good cutbait also but I do believe sucker makes the best cutbait. So come on now bass and walleye guys where are all the sucker spots.
And don’t just say this forum!
Sorry Briank, some of the Red River forum is spilling over to here
Watch out for these guys at Everetts!
