Anyone catching any catfish on the Ohio River?

[redearhoosier]

So basically you're saying the strong demand from various paylakes has driven the commercial fishing industry to harvest the really nice size fish all in the name of the almighty dollar. What's sad to me is the fact that there's noway in the world those big trophy catfish could sustain in these small paylake waters. It's all about the money, that's the bottom line.

This seems like a common sense subject that my five year old would know the correct answer to, yet Kentucky is allowing these commerical fisherman to poach and pick off the large fish. What a sad state of affairs. From what I've read around the internet is this...you used to be able to catch forty to sixty pound blues with some regularity and now you're lucky to catch a twenty pound fish, is this accurate?

[procraft 192 super pro]

I wonder if fish and wildlife would put a slot size on commercail fishermen. Any fish over surtain weight or lenght must be turn back.

[Lowerider]

I wonder if fish and wildlife would put a slot size on commercail fishermen. Any fish over surtain weight or lenght must be turn back.

A complete ban is what we need. A two fish over 34 inch daily limit per license is what we'll get (fingers crossed). Most states that have regs have a 34 inch rule (about 22 lbs give or take). That rule will apply to all but even us tourney fisherman would support it.

Thanks Chuck. We've threatened to fish together for years. It's time we make due. I want to come your way (only bait fished there). U still mostly fishing Fridays?

[riverrat12]

A complete ban is what we need. A two fish over 34 inch daily limit per license is what we'll get (fingers crossed). Most states that have regs have a 34 inch rule (about 22 lbs give or take). That rule will apply to all but even us tourney fisherman would support it.

Thanks Chuck. We've threatened to fish together for years. It's time we make due. I want to come your way (only bait fished there). U still mostly fishing Fridays?

Yes sir give me a holler sometime. We need to get'um before there gone