skinin_bonz
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spring predators...new pics
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I want the free cat... Where do I pick it up?
shankbone
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I'd say the catfish is certainly a predator.
I had a catfish my pulled out of the local river that I kept in my freshwater aquarium when I was in college. I bought 100 feeder goldfish for it and the catfish wouldn't eat them. On the third night, I turned off all of the lights in my apartment, including the tank light.
About five minutes later, as I was trying to fall asleep, I started hearing someone walking around my apartment, or at least knocking on the walls. I turned on my light and the sound stopped. When I turned the light off, the sound started back up. This happened once or twice more before I grabbed my flashlight and looked around the apartment.
I followed the sound to the fish tank, where the catfish was patrolling with his mouth hanging open lazily, just inhaling goldfish from one end of the tank to the other, where he would bump into the glass, turn around, and continue his path just like he was mowing a lawn.
By morning I only had about thirty goldfish left and the catfish didn't eat for another four days. After that, I figured out that I could keep the lights in the rest of the house low enough to watch him feed and he put on many shows for visitors. I left for Alaska that summer and had to give him to a friend who got tired of feeding him and released him back to the lake where he had come from.
I had a catfish my pulled out of the local river that I kept in my freshwater aquarium when I was in college. I bought 100 feeder goldfish for it and the catfish wouldn't eat them. On the third night, I turned off all of the lights in my apartment, including the tank light.
About five minutes later, as I was trying to fall asleep, I started hearing someone walking around my apartment, or at least knocking on the walls. I turned on my light and the sound stopped. When I turned the light off, the sound started back up. This happened once or twice more before I grabbed my flashlight and looked around the apartment.
I followed the sound to the fish tank, where the catfish was patrolling with his mouth hanging open lazily, just inhaling goldfish from one end of the tank to the other, where he would bump into the glass, turn around, and continue his path just like he was mowing a lawn.
By morning I only had about thirty goldfish left and the catfish didn't eat for another four days. After that, I figured out that I could keep the lights in the rest of the house low enough to watch him feed and he put on many shows for visitors. I left for Alaska that summer and had to give him to a friend who got tired of feeding him and released him back to the lake where he had come from.
skinin_bonz
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A flathead is the apex predator in or river system. They will eat something 3/4 their own size if hungry. They hunt live prey like fish....worms...crawdads...snakes...ect. and they taste WAY better than coyote. Happy hunting everyone.
shankbone
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Where I guide in Alaska we often have our clients cast mice/shrew/vole patterns to the bank and swim them across the surface. Of course, those tundra trout only have a narrow season during which they can feed, so they will often grab anything that looks like food. (Not my pictures.)
Video of many trout eating many mice and fly fishermen catching trout on mouse patterns.
Video of many trout eating many mice and fly fishermen catching trout on mouse patterns.
mbaysinger89
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Nice catch. Still water?
skinin_bonz
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Running river water.
And I'd love to use a live mouse to catch a big ol trout.
And I'd love to use a live mouse to catch a big ol trout.
shankbone
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Originally Posted By: mbaysinger89Nice catch. Still water?
Those aren't my pics, but that's a common scene on the rivers in SW AK. One of my best days of fishing up there was with a big articulated mouse fly my friend Mike Cole tied for me. The thing was about 3.5" and chore to cast all day, but watching those rainbows "shark" and boil on that hunk of rabbit fur and spun deer hair swinging across the current on a tight dry line got my heart pumping like seeing a coyote trotting into a stand from a ways out.
Sure, you can catch more trout on egg patterns, but watching the "toilet flush" under your fly is way more fun.
I can't wait to get back up there this June. Too bad the trout don't really key in on mice where I'm heading.
Those aren't my pics, but that's a common scene on the rivers in SW AK. One of my best days of fishing up there was with a big articulated mouse fly my friend Mike Cole tied for me. The thing was about 3.5" and chore to cast all day, but watching those rainbows "shark" and boil on that hunk of rabbit fur and spun deer hair swinging across the current on a tight dry line got my heart pumping like seeing a coyote trotting into a stand from a ways out.
Sure, you can catch more trout on egg patterns, but watching the "toilet flush" under your fly is way more fun.
skinin_bonz
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we regularly catch them May through the end of June this year we've got tons of water flowing and we just hit it on a good night
skinin_bonz
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41lbs for my wife....19lbs for me. : (
But its not about the size ya know??
But its not about the size ya know??
hammer0419
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Very nice catfish!!