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Offline rumdrinker

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Catfish in Boysen
« on: Jan 20, 2008, 09:41 PM »
I had the most amazing weekend at boysen, I will post pictures after I figure out this photo bucket stuff.  But I ended up catching 22 catfish in a day and a half.  After bringing a the catfish home and weighting them it was really surprising.  The weights varied from 8lbs to 18 lbs.  The amazing thing was I released a few much bigger catfish that I think were 20-22 lbs.  I think one of the bigger ones is the picture that I will post shortly.  But I am wondering if any else has stumbled on a hole like this at boysen. I caught catfish before but it has been a one on one basis...nothing like this....
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #1 on: Jan 20, 2008, 09:57 PM »
Right on man..lets see some pics..Sounds to me like you got into a good school of them. Probably shouldn't even bother asking but in what vicinity were you in? There thats  a pretty broad way of putting it ;)
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #2 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:20 PM »




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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #3 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:22 PM »
Nice, very nice fish indeed. Better keep that hole a secret, although any one who knows the lake can see where you were.
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #4 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:32 PM »
Holy S%^t man, good job.
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Offline Perchcrazy

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #5 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:33 PM »
Awesome Job.  What kind of bait where you using?  PC
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #6 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:36 PM »
A jig tipped with a minnow, I was looking for walleyes and found these :tipup: :laugh:
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #7 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:39 PM »
Quote from: rumdrinker on Jan 20, 2008, 10:36 PM
A jig tipped with a minnow, I was looking for walleyes and found these :tipup: :laugh:
Sounds like a good trade to me, I bet that was a good time!!!!
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #8 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:41 PM »
I have to replace a rod but I am not complaining!!
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #9 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:44 PM »
yep..those are some stud cats..
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #10 on: Jan 20, 2008, 10:47 PM »
I had a similar experience about 8 years ago. caught about 12 in one day and have only caught 2 more since that time. None were over 6 lbs though. They are really starting to get some monsters in there now.
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Offline bohman77

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #11 on: Jan 20, 2008, 11:23 PM »
I had a pretty similar day like that last year at the tournament.  Caught most of them jigging also. One I caught the day before the tournament was over 20 lbs easy. Hopefully you can get in to those the end of this week.

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #12 on: Jan 20, 2008, 11:49 PM »
Very nice :o are those big cats good eaten?
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #13 on: Jan 21, 2008, 01:19 AM »
I can't see the pics!  :%$#!: :%$#!: :%$#!:
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #14 on: Jan 21, 2008, 01:27 AM »
WOW
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #15 on: Jan 21, 2008, 08:41 AM »
Quote from: rumdrinker on Jan 20, 2008, 09:41 PM
I had the most amazing weekend at boysen, I will post pictures after I figure out this photo bucket stuff.  But I ended up catching 22 catfish in a day and a half.  After bringing a the catfish home and weighting them it was really surprising.  The weights varied from 8lbs to 18 lbs.  The amazing thing was I released a few much bigger catfish that I think were 20-22 lbs.  I think one of the bigger ones is the picture that I will post shortly.  But I am wondering if any else has stumbled on a hole like this at boysen. I caught catfish before but it has been a one on one basis...nothing like this....
Great cat's man,
It looks like you and the little one had a great time. Did the little one get to pull any of them through the ice?
I've had pretty good luck with cat's in the spring, but I've only caught one through the ice. I've heard that if you can find them you will have days like you had, but I've never been able to find them under the ice. Don't suppose you are gonna let us know where you got into them at?
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #16 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:02 AM »
Gooooooood job,AWESOME fish,got to get my butt over there for some of that.
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #17 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:53 AM »
Nice catfish, should be some good eating.
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #18 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:25 AM »
  Beauty Cats Rumdrinker !!!  I hope you left some of them in there for the derby ;) :tipup:

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #19 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:27 AM »
AWESOME KITTYS

You better run over to fremont this weekend for the dutch oven feed
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #20 on: Jan 21, 2008, 11:54 AM »
I wanted to make it over to North Muddy this weekend for a beer, but I got a little distracted.  I will make it down to fremont this weekend to say hi and have a beer!!
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #21 on: Jan 21, 2008, 12:05 PM »
Wow! :o those are some nice fish! i've never seen cats that big threw the ice! good job buddy!
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #22 on: Jan 21, 2008, 09:32 PM »
Stroodle,
Those are some nice catfish!  Way to go.

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #23 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:01 PM »
Quote from: Big Mack on Jan 20, 2008, 11:49 PM
Very nice :o are those big cats good eaten?
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, Yeah!  ;D
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #24 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:14 PM »
Rumdrinker, those are some beautiful fish. Biggest I've ever caught was 32" long and 14 lbs out of the Big Horn River. I always hoped to get one over 20 lbs and have it mounted.
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #25 on: Jan 21, 2008, 10:26 PM »
That is a nice fish Rumdrinker
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #26 on: Jan 21, 2008, 11:24 PM »
O now i can see them. Awesome fish man. i've never caught a catfish period. :(...lol
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #27 on: Jan 22, 2008, 10:27 AM »
Amazing fish. 

I was at Boysen this a group of 10, and the fishing was awful, as bad as the drought years when the reservoir was really low.  We were at Tough Creek and tried a variety of depths, and landed 2 perch, a few tiny walleye, and 2 big trout.  It was even dead at the magic hour around dusk. 

When I fished Tough Creek around Christmas we did really well, and we had high expectations--Guess that's fishing....

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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #28 on: Jan 22, 2008, 12:02 PM »
Awesome catch!  Too bad every day of fishing isn't like that :bow:
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Re: Catfish in Boysen
« Reply #29 on: Jan 22, 2008, 12:31 PM »
Quote from: rumdrinker on Jan 21, 2008, 11:54 AM
I wanted to make it over to North Muddy this weekend for a beer, but I got a little distracted.  I will make it down to fremont this weekend to say hi and have a beer!!

Don't forget the feed on Saturday afternoon
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