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Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 03:40 PM
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Chris_K
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Was at Athens this morning and kept seeing huge fish hit topwater in some pads main lake. I presented my frog with no luck. It came up top over a dozen times. Didn't really look like a bass as it was a brownish red color.. any ideas?
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
[Re: Chris_K]
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06/04/16 03:42 PM
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Diezel_Rocker
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I had one hit a frog. I know they sure the hell hit chatterbaits!!
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 03:44 PM
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Mike_Soriano
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Carp? I don't know Athens but by the color sounds like a carp
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 03:44 PM
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Andrew Taylor
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 03:57 PM
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kellisag
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I've caught 1 on a pop-r.
Last year I was fishing a buzz bait kept getting blow ups but no fish. Swapped to a spinnerbait and caught 3 catfish on consecutive cast.
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:02 PM
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jhall239
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I've caught catfish on spinner baits and plastics but never a top water. Doesn't mean they won't hit one though
Sounds like you saw a grennel(bowfin) had one chasing my frog last week just never would commit or carp
Skeeter 20-I 250 HPDI
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:06 PM
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jbcarroll3000
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Sounds like carp to me. I've never caught a catfish on topwater, but I did have one surprise me a couple of weeks ago on Cypress Springs. Over the course of two days, I caught 6 catfish in this small area, on everything ranging from t-rig to a swim bait. But on one of them, I was throwing square bill and felt something slap at it. I slowed the retrieve, hoping the "bass" would come back to it. As I'm bringing it back to the boat, I start burning it to get it in. As soon as I can see the square bill, about a 5lb channel cat that was following it, blows it up out of the water. So, that was pretty close to catching one on a topwater.
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:08 PM
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Fish Killer
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Yes they do
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:09 PM
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Mike_Soriano
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Yes they do Was he trying to eat it or spawn with it? Things as big as him.
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:12 PM
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Peepaw on Fork
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Caught one on a Jitterbug one night, bout a 12# channel
H. Burns
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:18 PM
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jbcarroll3000
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Yes they do I think your topwater hit him.
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:33 PM
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J.P. Greeson
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Yellow cats will hit a crankbait.
The solution to any problem - work, love, money, whatever - is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. --John Gierach
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:36 PM
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Bradshuflin aka hunter'sdad
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I caught a 5lb flathead at night on a Zara spook a few years ago.
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 04:43 PM
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RedRanger
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I have caught channel cats on yellow magics in the back of Sand on Roberts before
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Re: Do Catfish hit topwater?
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06/04/16 05:16 PM
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Fishwfly
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Was at Athens this morning and kept seeing huge fish hit topwater in some pads main lake. I presented my frog with no luck. It came up top over a dozen times. Didn't really look like a bass as it was a brownish red color.. any ideas? sounds like carp splashing around to me. That said, I have seen a channel cat take a buzz bait before.
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