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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 12:41:03 pm

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Post by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 12:41:03 pm
well this is how it began today  was letting my chickens out and one found a nice lookn copperhead. so i use my rake as a snake hook and hook it then put it in the bucket i drive down about .5 miles from the house where there is a dry creek to let it go. i look on one side that has a small water puddle and i saw a large school of catfish fingerlings in it :) talk about getting exited so i let the snake go on the other side of the road go home grab my net and a ice chest and head back. once i got there i slop into the muddy hole and the fish saw me and berry them selfs in the mud to hide lol smart little guys.well in a hour i caught about 30-50catfish fingerlings   and there rest are hiding in the muddy water i hope to get the rest of them after work : ). sorry i dont have pics time was short because i was at work and had to head back but now my pond is stocked with catfish woot
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Post by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 01:10:49 pm
i went down to look again to see how many i had gottn and there were still about 50 of them left :)  ;D
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Post by: El Destructo on August 10, 2010, 02:23:00 pm
What are you going to do with Fingerling Cats? You got a Pond to raise them in?
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Post by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 03:19:42 pm
yep i fixd my pond last year and it has no game fish in it yet so now it will
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Post by: Josh on August 10, 2010, 03:24:47 pm
that's cool, Sterling.  :)
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Post by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 04:07:13 pm
thanx josh
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Post by: Justin Snyder on August 10, 2010, 04:37:26 pm
That is cool, I'm wish I could stumble onto a bunch to put in the tank in my aquaponic system.
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Post by: Postman on August 10, 2010, 04:46:22 pm
Kudos for not axing that copperhead, skyarrow! Those texas ones are pretty.  Hope you get some big ol' cats someday but....are you sure they ain't adults of a small species like madtoms? Not everything might be bigger in Texas! ;) 

Don't know what cats you have down there, but couldn't resist ;D
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Post by: skyarrow on August 10, 2010, 05:41:57 pm
Kudos for not axing that copperhead, skyarrow! Those texas ones are pretty.  Hope you get some big ol' cats someday but....are you sure they ain't adults of a small species like madtoms? Not everything might be bigger in Texas! ;) 

Don't know what cats you have down there, but couldn't resist ;D

np i guess its a thank you for not killing it i would have not found them if i killed it :) and they are mud cats from the overflow from a pond up stream i plan to get pics when i get off work or tomarrow morning :)
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Post by: Hillbilly on August 10, 2010, 10:17:02 pm
Sounds like a bunch of future fish fries in the making!
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Post by: skyarrow on August 11, 2010, 11:51:27 am
here is the only pic i could get of them

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Post by: El Destructo on August 11, 2010, 12:03:07 pm
sure that they are Mud Cats?? Look a lot like baby Channel Cats to me.......
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Post by: skyarrow on August 11, 2010, 12:24:03 pm
its hard to tell they look like both lol. they are black on top with a silvery side
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Post by: Josh on August 11, 2010, 12:33:53 pm
How bad would it stink to go back to get more baby catfish and then get bit by the copperhead you let loose there?   :)
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Post by: aero86 on August 11, 2010, 12:44:15 pm
wow, nice!  i need to look for something like that!  raise a few in the backyard!  would be fun
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Post by: Parnell on August 13, 2010, 12:32:37 am
That's a pretty cool photo, never seen that before.  Good luck with that, Sterling.
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Post by: Postman on August 23, 2010, 11:18:41 pm
Cool! love me some catfish! grew up eating them outta the rivers in Pittsburgh. (Probably explains a lot).  They look like channels to me too... I think I see a forked tail?