Irvine Lake: 4/29/11
 

I decided to go to Irvine Lake and the water was so calm and I was looking for the catfish under some bushes. I finally got my limit of catfish. It is not yellowtail or white seabass, but sometimes it is fun to catch catfish.It has a lot of meat on it and it's similar to fishing Calico Bass in the kelp. :) I used leftover makeral for bait.

Nice job! For some reason I thought catfish were primarily nocturnal.

I haven't fished a lake yet with my kayak. Do you just leave them on the game clip over the side all day?

Yes Mike Catfish bite better at night...but they also bite well in the morning nearby tree or bush .....Yeah I leave them on game clip for several hours they're still alive even when I got home

that's really cool!! looks like back to irvine for me!!! Thanks for the report!

I would take catfish over trout any day....wtg.

Yeah I agree too....Catfish is way better eating fish than trout

nice kitties, I haven't fished for cats in the yak I should think about that, nice fish fry comin:reel:

ive had some really big catfish fight HARD. Was soaking bait once and had a 10lber pull my rig into the water before i could blink. The only reason i know how big the fish was, believe it or not we returned to the same spot the next day, a guy was fishing a km and snagged the catfish yes the catfish not the rod! it had line to it, so i pulled the line in and got my pole. Definately a fishing story i will never forget :sifone: