Blue cats on the ohio river

[kyriverblues]

Does anyone have any info on if blue cats are doing any good on the Ohio River in the last few days???? I think I am going to try them Sunday afternoon. Thanks for any help.

[riverrat12]

Does anyone have any info on if blue cats are doing any good on the Ohio River in the last few days???? I think I am going to try them Sunday afternoon. Thanks for any help.

Catching a mix bag of both blues and flats right now. Lots of leaves in the water . Good luck and be careful. Chuck

[kyriverblues]

ok thanks for the info. Always fighting leave this time of year it seems

[Moveon]

Does anyone have any info on if blue cats are doing any good on the Ohio River in the last few days???? I think I am going to try them Sunday afternoon. Thanks for any help.

Sound like fun. What are the KY regulations regarding catfish on the Ohio River. I know that down here near Evansville, IN and Henderson, KY the Ohio River is controlled mostly by the State of KY. Evidently the Ohio River has shifted over the years after the boarder was set and now the River is mostly in KY. IN's part of the river in some places is non existent and in other's it barely goes out into the river a 100 ft. This is why the Casino River Boat had to stop cruising out on the Ohio River as KY would not allow it to gamble while on the KY part of the Ohio River. But I diverge as usual.

I know that recently Indiana IDNR changed the Commercial and Recreational Catfishing Rules to make it where you can't take as many big catfish as before. This was done to help preserve and protect some of the bigger catfish in the Rivers and lakes in IN.

[Tyme2fish]

Kentucky regulation for Ohio River

Blue, Channel and Flathead Catfish: Anglers may keep one blue or flathead catfish 35 inches or longer and one channel catfish 28 inches or longer daily. No daily creel limit for catfish under those limits.

[Moveon]

Kentucky regulation for Ohio River

Blue, Channel and Flathead Catfish: Anglers may keep one blue or flathead catfish 35 inches or longer and one channel catfish 28 inches or longer daily. No daily creel limit for catfish under those limits.

Thanks Tyme2fish. That's close or the same as the New Indiana Regulations. Both states are trying to protect the resource so that our kids can have some big catfish to catch after we are all gone. Then their kids can have some fun too. It's all about sustaining the resource into the future.

I think it would be a lot of fun to catch one of them big catfish.

When I first got my Humminbird LCR8000 unit back around 1986 I took it out on my boat just below the Newburgh, IN dam and saw a lot of returns around the bottom. Where the water comes out/over the dam it scrubs away the bottom sand and makes a big deep hole right downstream from the dam's gates. That hole was about 50 ft deep or more. I noticed big returns coming off the bottom and figured it was old logs trees that were caught up in the hydro logics below the dam. The big hole was filled up with all types of debris or maybe it was big catfish too. But it was scary looking to me. I could only try to image what all these echo returns were coming from the bottom of that big hole in the Ohio River. I've never fished that area as I feared getting hug up on something down there and not being able to cut the line before I lost my rod or the boat tipped over with me in it. The current down steam from those open gates can be dangerous at best and life threatening if you are not careful in how you point the nose of the boat into the current. These days they don't let boats get up close to the dams like they did pre 911.

[Tyme2fish]

I'm 99% sure that the Indiana regs are the same as Kentucky's on the Ohio.

[smashdn]

Means you have to take that many more small ones to make the money that you used to with a few big ones. 300 lb of fish with 5 fish don't pay the same as 300 lb of 50 fish. Got to catch a bunch more of the small ones to make anywhere near the same money.

More gear, more time, more expense, takes more fish to break even.

[riverrat12]

Means you have to take that many more small ones to make the money that you used to with a few big ones. 300 lb of fish with 5 fish don't pay the same as 300 lb of 50 fish. Got to catch a bunch more of the small ones to make anywhere near the same money.

More gear, more time, more expense, takes more fish to break even.

Good ,maybe they will go after another speices like bighead and silver carp. Maybe paylakes will start buying grain fed cats again and stop depleating OUR natural resource. All anyone has to do is look back at what comercial fishing did to the Mo. river. But I digress.

[riverrat12]

The reason for the new regs was samples taking showed a large decrease in big catfish. Plain and simple.

[smashdn]

Good ,maybe they will go after another speices like bighead and silver carp. Maybe paylakes will start buying grain fed cats again and stop depleating OUR natural resource. All anyone has to do is look back at what comercial fishing did to the Mo. river. But I digress.

Carp certainly don't pay what catfish do.

Youdo realize there are fewer commercial fishers now than ever right? And fewer bodies of water open and more regulation.

[AaronS]

Carp certainly don't pay what catfish do.

Youdo realize there are fewer commercial fishers now than ever right? And fewer bodies of water open and more regulation.

And your point is? The resource is there for EVERYONE to enjoy, not to be raped and pillaged by a few for a paycheck. There needs to be a complete ban. I don't understand why catfish aren't considered a sport fish. That would help this mess. The Ohio River is a ghost of what it used to be when it comes to trophy catfish, thanks in large part to the commercial "fishermen" (much nicer term that I feel like using). The new regs will help save a few fish to ensure our kids and grandkids will be able to enjoy the sport, but I wish it would have went further.