Catfish on Crankbaits?!?!

[Bobby Headrick]

Nice one. I have caught several cats on cranks while fishing the river, and caught a big flathead on Ky while ledge fishing with a series six, also have caught them on jigs, caught several chanels when I fished Santee Cooper a couple years ago on shaky head, but the oddest was I caught a channel that was close to 7 lbs on a buzz bait on a strip pit in Ohio co, you could see him come after it and the he blasted it like a bass. That was cool

[kc]

Ahh - the rare catfish on surface bite. I have only seen it a couple of times both on surface jerk type lures. A channel on a buzzer is a rare event indeed.

Channels on cranks is pretty common especially in their pre-spawn late-May into June. One of my favorite catfish artificial bites is on the Ohio using rooster tails and ultra-light tackle below the dam. With the gates closed they will come up cruising on the apron at night so shallow you can see them move. Put a rooster tail in front of them and they will strip a bunch of line off of your noodle rig! Not huge but 3 to 6 pounds are the norm and a blast on 4 lb stuff...

[Embrey]

Ahh - the rare catfish on surface bite. I have only seen it a couple of times both on surface jerk type lures. A channel on a buzzer is a rare event indeed.

Channels on cranks is pretty common especially in their pre-spawn late-May into June. One of my favorite catfish artificial bites is on the Ohio using rooster tails and ultra-light tackle below the dam. With the gates closed they will come up cruising on the apron at night so shallow you can see them move. Put a rooster tail in front of them and they will strip a bunch of line off of your noodle rig! Not huge but 3 to 6 pounds are the norm and a blast on 4 lb stuff...

actually, i catch channels on topwater several times a year. i caught a 5 lber flipping a stump yesterday. they wont leave my bass stuff alone

[DJD]

actually, i catch channels on topwater several times a year. i caught a 5 lber flipping a stump yesterday. they wont leave my bass stuff alone

May and June has been best for me on Buzzbaits and channel cats.

[riverrat12]

Biggest flathead I have caught was on a 1\4oz jig tipped with a minnow! Channels will burn up an inline spinner bait for sure. Chuck