Stripers..Belly Up

[PRO V LE]

Stripernut, are you sure it was a Blue cat? The KDFWR say that there are no Blue's in L. Cumb. just channels and flatheads.

[waterdog101]

Stripernut, are you sure it was a Blue cat? The KDFWR say that there are no Blue's in L. Cumb. just channels and flatheads.

I don't fish for cats very often, with rod and reel. but before they dropped the water in lake cumberland. sometimes when I go smallmouth fishing at night. I set a few limb lines for cat fish, to take home and eat. I'll smallmouth fish about 2 hours and then go and shine a spot light on my limb lines. and I have caught a lot of blues over the years. nothing big all 10 lb or less. but just right for eating. but you can be sure their are blue cats in cumberland lake. unless I caught the last one, before the water dropped to low for limb lines.

[Lowerider]

Don't want to change the subject or start an argument but I can assure you those 10lb cats you catch are channel cats. Blue catfish have never been stocked in the lake - I've verified with the biologist in charge of lake cumberland. If there were blue cats in the lake the striper guys would catch them all the time and they'd average well over 10 lbs. Blue cats act more like striper than channel cats and they grow very quickly. Just want to clear the air. Now the lake does have some nice flatheads in it no doubt.

[waterdog101]

Don't want to change the subject or start an argument but I can assure you those 10lb cats you catch are channel cats. Blue catfish have never been stocked in the lake - I've verified with the biologist in charge of lake cumberland. If there were blue cats in the lake the striper guys would catch them all the time and they'd average well over 10 lbs. Blue cats act more like striper than channel cats and they grow very quickly. Just want to clear the air. Now the lake does have some nice flatheads in it no doubt.

the KDFWR did not stock Laurel River Lake, with Northern Pike. but they are in their. Derek Cowden caught the state record Northern pike from the waters of laurel lake on 10/29/2006.

[stripernut]

been fishing for almost a half a century....and yup it was a blue,but thats beside the point here. the kdfwr having their finger on the pulse of things? well i think this belly-up topic addresses their comprehension of whats actually in cumberland ?!?!?