An average half day of catfishing generally will produce 12-20 catfish from 18-25 lbs if the bite is average to good. On the Red River of the north we try to shake them off the hook without a picture or a measurement if it’s 15lbs or less. Across most if not all catfish waters across North America a 10lb channel cat is considered a big channel catfish.
That is what we are talking about when talking about fishing the Red River for channel catfish. Imagine a waterbody where you can catch 10lb walleyes all day every day and describe it as average fishing? Imagine a place where you can catch 5lb smallmouth bass and 10lb largemouth on every second cast and not really get excited about it. I am going to steal a comment from Doug Stange, Editor and chief of In-Fisherman. The Red River channel catfish fishery is a modern utopia of catfishing. What I am saying is if you take the world’s best fisheries for each species and then compare the numbers of large fish you can catch consistently on those systems throughout the year, you would have a hard time finding many if any that compare to the Red River and her mighty channel catfish.
Some anglers prefer the pursuit of musky or northern pike, while others chase the elusive walleye, still more won’t even bat and eye for anything other than a bass and so on and so forth. I understand that not everyone is into catfish. Sure it’s the greatest channel catfish fishery, but the best sport fishery? Come on now! Manitoba is host to a wide array of incredible angling opportunities, however we are probably best known for our trophy greenback walleye on Lake Winnipeg and arguably the greatest sport fishery on the planet with our world class channel catfish on the mighty Red River.
0 kommentar(er)
