More Big Mississippi Cats

What a run Tuesday afternoon!
More big fish and plenty of them
They keep getting bigger and bigger each passing day!
This is some fun stuff!
The gang is wearing out though, 13 hard days in a row and quiet a few more to go!

Yall ought to try to catch some big old spotted cats, use live bream and see what happens and let us know if u do.

I'm getting sick of it!! I keep wanting to go catch a bunch of catdady's and everyday I have to look at these monsters!! Man, between the weather getting bad every weekend and you guys catching all the cats I'm starting to lose it!! haha

I saw your picture in La. Sportsman magazine today with the 2 catfish you were holding up. If you need some freezer space, give me a call.

Just curious as to what you are setting? Single lines with a large hook and weight, small trotlines, limblines, etc. What size and type hook and do you use some sort of swivel. Would love to try this around my house (the pearl river) but would like to have some idea of how to do it before I just waste my time. Thanks.

Loupgarou
I am running drop lines (trout-lines) with #4 hooks with swivels. I am also lossing some huge fish as they are breaking my tackle apart. I went to setting out a few bush lines and have caught a few like that. I sent you an e-mail to call me as Iam about to head to my south Texas lease to do some work and try to get a close friend to get his first turkey. I can talk to you more in detail if you call.

Have yall been eating those fish? I have always thought dont eat fish out the Mississippi because of high mercury content. I would like to know if you can eat fish out of the river. Is there only a certain area you can eat them out of? Where do you catch these out of?

wondering how much the biggest one weighed,caught one this week on the red that was 60 lbs --

The Mississippi splits with part of its flow continueing down the Mississippi River and some going down the Atchafalia. The catfish you buy quite frequently come from the atchafalia river and some from the Mississippi as well. People always have a problem with eating Mississippi River fish but don't think twice about heading to the Basin for their bass fishing trips. Its basically the same water.

only 30% of the miss. water flows through the basin the other 70% is red river water which to my knowledge does not have any mercury level signs on it--so if the red is good then you are mixing a little better water before the basin gets it--i do not know what the merc. level is in the basin but its like most of la. polluted to some degree,just use alot of red pepper in your sauce piquant--

Nope that isn't correct. The majority of the water in the basin comes from the Mississippi River. You have the 70 and 30 numbers right but are applying them wrong. 70% of the water coming down the Mississippi AND Red River flows down the Mississippi. 30% of the water coming down the Atchafalia River is water that comes down both the Mississippi and Atchafalia.

30% of the flow of the Mississippi River is commonly thought to go down the Atchafalia but that is not correct. It will always be less than 30% of the flow because the 30% comes from the total flow of both rivers. Now the Mississippi River has a much larger flow volume than the Atchafalia River so the majority of the flow is from the Mississippi and the percentage varies depending on how much flow each river has in relation to the other.

Clear as mud now! haha. Sort of like tying your shoes. Easy to do hard to describe.

Tell me how you cook these fish. I cooked it every way I know and could not get the oily taste out.Well red pepper work I tried lemon , thin fried cutting the red out. Please tell me what works because i live 2 blocks from the river.

lets try this again--the red does not flow into the miss.it actually is one in the same as the atchf.--no locks control the flow at three rivers on the red/achf.--the corp by law can only flow 30% max. of vol. from the miss into the achf.--you are correct about vol. wise like right now that the 30% flow through the locks may be greater than the red can produce--but most of the time the miss. is not at the stage it is now--i have seen only a trickle of water coming out of the gates at three rivers from the miss.during the summer which means that the 30% is not even close to being the flow--the main flow through the basin in normal times is from the red/atchf.The only thing that connects the miss river at three rivers is a man-made canal called the cut which is connect at what most locals would say where the atchf. starts and the red ends--again the red and the atchf. are the same river --that means 100% of the water from n.w. la. -little river-black river-Quachita flow into the Atchf. none of this water not a drop flows into the Miss. From what you are saying if we close the control structure at 3/rivers the basin would dry up----man made the miss. flow into the atchf.---- before that the basin had only water from n.w. la.--with high water conditions the above flow rates and volume would and could be completely different--right now the locks or control structions on the red river starting at marksville are being controlled to slow the flow of the red so it does not flood or compound the high miss. level going down the atchf.--as long as no big rains in tex. or ark. occur they can slow the flow down on the red--even thou this is one of the highest water levels on the miss. we or not seeing flood conditions on the red around three rivers like in 1973 because both the miss. and red had high flood stages in 1973--