To some people this fish may not be that special, but for us, this is one of them once a year catfish we catch (they are usually half the size) 
It was only 7 pounds, but that is a pretty good cat rod and reel fishing for the rivers around here! We are gonna try running diddy poles this summer so hopefully that will get us some WAY bigger then this one! 
Are you guys allowed to trot line or jug fish?
We take old bleach bottles, add some nylon line, hook, and bait. I spray paint the tops in florescent colors so they are easier to spot. I dump them up river, and go fish for striper for a while in a tributary. I give it a few hours and go check them. I've had some catfish on so big they take the jugs down and make them hard to find.....They pop back up here and there. It's wild!!!
~Brian
My bad! I havent been on for awhile. I have had to actually work at work lately
Like shookie said, we cant do that in Iowa, but we are making diddy poles to set up in a few weeks. We got all the supplies on Sunday for it and we are making them this coming weekend, and putting them out in two or three weeks. Iowa has some pretty gay laws about hunting and fishing. We are not suppose to use blue gills as bait either, but that is what works best on dids around here, so we may try and sneak some in anyways, or just use some big creek chubs if we get some decent sized ones. We threw our trap out for them Sunday also so we will give it a week and see what we got for chubs.
