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dahogman
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Posted: 09/14/2009 at 10:42am \| IP Logged

Went fishing yesterday morning. Got on the River at 5:30 am, dark and pea soup fog. Navigation was at idle and we got turned around several times and lost our bearings and had to head for shore to find out where we were. Fog finally lifted and started catching some nice fish on the Channel for the first time this year. I caught a nicely marked Channel Cat, I've seen spots on Channel Cats before but not like this.

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Posted: 09/14/2009 at 11:15am \| IP Logged

Hadn't seen one that light, almost an abino cat. Nice looking cats

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Posted: 09/14/2009 at 1:46pm \| IP Logged

Nice looking fish! I have never seen a spotted catfish before, and the redish or pinkish tinted fins, ya think that has something to do with the water?

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Posted: 09/14/2009 at 1:52pm \| IP Logged

I caught it in the Illinois river in the same spot I caught the others. I took it home and released it in a friends pond. It was to nice of a fish to leave in the river to be killed or caught.

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Posted: 09/14/2009 at 11:43pm \| IP Logged

Has the spots and head meat of an Opelousas cat but that pink tail sorta has a channel cat look. We have killed several op's this summer spearfishing but most of them were darker like the head half of yours. Most of them had similar spotting.

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Posted: 09/15/2009 at 6:16am \| IP Logged

No I don't think it's a Flathead. I'm thinking it might be a sort of Albino Channel Cat.

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Posted: 09/16/2009 at 9:45pm \| IP Logged

Not sure. I shot several with spots like that this summer but were darker. I just assumed they were flatheads. We just called them spotted cats. Either way they tasted pretyy good.

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