Caught plenty of shad in the state park and fished around Preston point in 30-40 fow. Caught lots of smaller striper {12 inch to 25 inch }. We keep 6 gut hooked plus we caught this large blue 43 lbs and 3 other blues up to 8 lbs. My buddies thought I knew what I was doing when we stopped and caught fish from daylight till 1:00 in the afternoon and never moved the boat. But I had to tell them Jd helped me out.

Thanks for the report. I am headed up there this weekend. JD is always good for some help!

Charlie

Good catch Pete...

Nice cat!

I fished that same area, a few years ago, in the rain, with very similar results, and caught a 35lbs blue catfish.

How did you prepare that Catfish???

I pulled thick 2" fillets off each side, and half of that was fat, so I filleted off the fat, and tried to deep fat fry it and it wasn't any good. Maybe these bigger cats are better on the smoker where the remaining fat can be rendered off.

I fished that same area yesterday 11-4-08 evening and they were still on.

Michael, is there a fish you wont smoke? (read your other posts too)

LOL!!!

I'm just a guy with an electric smoker, a bag of wood chips, and a long extension cord .

I know I don't want to mess with another one of those blues again.

Thanks. Mstewart I prepare a brine and soak them in the refrigerator for 24 hours then smoke them on a wood smoker just like smoked salmon.

wow..that's a nice cat, I like the amateur fishing reports better than any others because you guys are regular people fishing.

as opposed to irregular people

Baysport, glad it worked out !!

I would like to catch that but I would never keep it. not because of catch and release, because of what the heck will I do with 24lbs of catfish guts.

Way to go Baysport! Nice boat too