texasfishingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
TraeMartin, Power-Pole CS, T-Rigger, JoeGoes, EcKo
119150 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
hopalong 120,585
TexDawg 119,524
Bigbob_FTW 94,903
John175☮ 85,892
Pilothawk 83,264
Bob Davis 81,523
Mark Perry 72,297
Derek 🐝 68,312
JDavis7873 67,416
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics1,037,854
Posts13,935,662
Members144,150
Most Online39,925
Dec 30th, 2023
Print Thread
Calaveras Catfishing.... #11843556 09/22/16 07:36 PM
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 55
K
kenlan21 Offline OP
Outdoorsman
OP Offline
Outdoorsman
K
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 55
OK, so I've been looking for somewhere fairly close to fish because Choke is too far of a drive for the time that I have allotted to fish. (and the water is way too low for my liking) I decided to try Calaveras because it's fairly close and I've wanted to get out and catch a few catfish for the table. I've been a bass fisherman for 15 yrs. now, and I think I've got a pretty good handle on them.

Well, I've been to Calaveras FIVE times in the past two weeks and I have yet to catch anything. (excepet a few bass) I've tried my darndest to catch a cat or two, but so far, nothing. I've fished with perch, tilapia, cut bait (tilapia), minnows, goldfish, and shrimp. I've drifted with them, carolina rigged both dead and live bait, and still nothing. Am I missing something here? Is the fishing better at night because of the warm lake temps? My depthfinder read 94 degrees, is the water that warm throughout the water column?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm completely at a loss....

Wet Rooster Jigs Fishing Super Store
Re: Calaveras Catfishing.... [Re: kenlan21] #11843613 09/22/16 08:11 PM
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,606
C
ChuChu1 Offline
TFF Team Angler
Offline
TFF Team Angler
C
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,606
PM sent


Snowflakes and entitled brats will be the doom of America!


Re: Calaveras Catfishing.... [Re: kenlan21] #11843633 09/22/16 08:25 PM
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 7,485
R
redchevy Offline
TFF Celebrity
Offline
TFF Celebrity
R
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 7,485
Water will likely be cooler a little deeper than the surface. I would try chicken liver, small or cut shad, and some type of dip/punch bait.

I live close to Calaveras and ran to choke canyon over labor day weekend with the family and did great on eater size cats in 5-7' deep flats off of the river channel (launched at 99, river channel is runnable at speed).

Have fished braunig a few times this summer, been catching some really nice channel cats in the rip rap, several of them 9-10 lbs.

Re: Calaveras Catfishing.... [Re: kenlan21] #11845181 09/23/16 06:01 PM
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 75,521
banker-always fishing Offline
Pumpkin Head
Offline
Pumpkin Head
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 75,521
Big Marvs for the Channel Cats and cut shad for the Blues. Do well drifting for the Blues in 15 to 20 feet of water. Channels are in the 181 cove and over by the intake! Also reed beds and wind blown points are holding some nice numbers of Channel Cats. thumb


[Linked Image][Linked Image]

IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap.

John 3:16

Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 1998-2022 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3