Epic 88lb Catfish Battle - Fishing For Giant Catfish on a Big River

this is gonna be the biggest fish that we've ever caught right here welcome back guys so me and lana are getting ready hit the river this afternoon so it's early february we don't have the best conditions today the river's dropping pretty hard but it was such a nice day we just had to get out and fish we're just gonna go out here and enjoy the afternoon and see what happens maybe we'll get lucky and hook into a monster so ride along with us and let's go have some fun [Music] so [Music] so well two things we're looking for today are deep water and slower current i feel like in this in this cold water you know our water temperature's 37 degrees i feel like in this cold water these fish don't like to be in that current any more than i have to so we're fishing a little hump right here mr tim scott of epic catfish man thank you guys for joining us today so uh [Music] i was back here cutting bait and i didn't even see the rod go down i just heard it start squeaking in the rod over really aggressive fish for this kind of water temperature i don't think it's huge but it's definitely got some weight to it oh it might be bigger than i thought he just he just got really solid either he just got hung up or he just realized he was hooked of course we are in current that's always awesome when you get you a good fish on the first anchor this one was on shad we had skipjack on four rods and shad on two and you know it's kind of strange because i've been seeing fish there's actually one on there right now i've been seeing fish under the boat and so i reeled this one in and just kind of dropped it below the boat and it wasn't there for just a couple of minutes after i reeled it in it went down oh look at him go look at that rod he's not a baby that's for sure definitely gonna have to get the net out watch out real quick landon let me slide around you get the net here well i haven't really gained any ground yet he's kind of still in the same spot that he was when i hooked him he comes up every now and then and then he goes back down he's got me shaking a little bit now he's gonna go up river that's exactly what i was hoping he would do that way i won't have to drag him on top how big oh yeah man i hope he's hooked good because he is pulling hard look at that all right let me get the net man he's making me nervous oh no he's hooked good i think i got him going now oh yeah first fish of the day is a good one if there's one biting there's going to be more biting we just got to find them you know it makes you wonder if that's one of the ones we've seen because we've seen some big marks on 2d sonar right about where he was at look at that hook set it doesn't get much better than that does it all right there we go wise in the net we'll go ahead and get a quick four ounces yup 46 pounds there he is guys i really wasn't expecting to have a whole lot of luck today with the water drop and everything but that's just that's why you go fishing guys go fishing every chance you get because you never know when that big one's gonna bite we're gonna get him back so we can make sure he's good and healthy he's ready to go all right we're gonna get some more baits out i might put a couple more pieces of shad out now that i know they're hitting shad that's awesome guys that made my day so there's a piece of bait that i caught that fish on it's just a probably a ten inch well probably eight to ten inch gizzard shad and i just filleted one side off and trimmed it off right behind the dorsal fin there and these aren't like super fresh shad you know they're probably i don't know i've got some they're probably a week old and i've got some that are a few days old but it got the job done they've been packed in ice and it's been extremely cold outside so although they were a couple days old they were probably still pretty fresh just from the cold weather [Music] all right so we sat here for another 10 to 15 minutes after we caught that 46 we haven't had another bite we're just gonna pick the anchor up and drift back about 200 foot we've seen several fish when we came through we just gotta hope we can get them to bite so the sun just came back out it's an absolutely beautiful day out here this weather reminds me how ready for spring i am i don't know about you guys but i cannot wait for some spring weather this spot that we just anchored up in rolls down about 10 foot and there was just fish scattered all along the back of that drop and most of them resembled catfish just how they were staged up and the color pattern and stuff on the arch we got a little slower car in here too out here on this side of the boat we got a little bit of a seam we got about three mile an hour current over here and then over here on this side we got about 1.5 so a lot of stuff going for this spot we're gonna get some baits down there i think we're gonna catch some fish in this spot oh is that a fish that's a fish it's a big fish [Music] look how slow it's going down it is a fish [Music] oh no that's a fish it's a big fish [Music] let me make oh my gosh landon i don't know if you can handle it we got what was looking for right here i believe here [Music] that's on our new reel too that's a big fish i can tell by how the rod went down i don't know how long you've been fighting so we had literally just got that bait in the water guys and we put a piece of cut uh cut buffalo on there a bait that i've not had a whole lot of luck with and he drilled it the way he bit i'd say it's a good fish i was pretty confident that we'd catch something but i didn't know it'd be that quick looks like we got him clear all those other lines too that's a miracle you're in for a ride here it's gonna be a long process when i picked up on it it felt like it was hung on the bottom and then it started swimming just hold onto that rod don't make sure you don't let go of that rod and just keep it tight and he'll eventually give up that's gonna be one of landon's monsters look at that rod so i can drag up just a little bit here all right okay it's just a big fish okay i got a couple things gotta rush my back that's about all the drag we've got on that reel those i think they only have about 12 pounds of drag which i normally don't run very much drag but in this kern you really don't have a choice my goodness what a fish oh there you go there's the bubbles uh he's going back down now isn't he oh that's your that's your 80. that's your 80 pound fish landon yes it is too we gotta make sure i'm gonna have like an anxiety attack or something just not knowing how his hooks killing me like if i can see his hook good i'll be fine there he goes again i'll tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna let i'm gonna let a little bit of anchor rope out now you make sure you keep it tight okay i'm not gonna completely undo us but just don't just make sure you gain some ground but keep it tight whatever you do keep it tight try to get him up to the surface and we'll just try to net him right now all right come on let's make a count come on oh he's about there come on come on come on [Music] no oh god how big is that one landing i don't know how i'm going to weigh it i need i need mike here to wait for me [Music] check out the house we just caught a 46 and this it literally looks double the size doesn't it what it looks double the size of that one we just caught six i ate all tackling cats and nailed him not a very big hook but big enough to catch whatever this is this is gonna be the biggest fish that we've ever caught right here all right tell me what you see cause i'm not gonna be able to look at from where i'm at oh my it's indeed no 89 it said 99. yeah i couldn't really tell it was going pretty fast i gotta take a break i'll try one more time here 88 88 89 89 88 all right i'm good with that i don't even know if i can pick this thing up so we're gonna put a scratch in the floor right here guys i got his tail against that back there all right i got that marked i don't call fish or we you caught a fish that i can't pick up [Applause] take some pictures get this guy back in here he's ready to go there he goes back healthy we try to make sure we got him back in as quick as possible got a quick weight and a couple pictures but around here where we're at there's not many of those so when you catch one you got to take good care of it i don't even know what to say right now guys i'm just going to have to catch my breath and calm down i knew when that rod went down it was something serious i knew it had to be it was the slowest takedown ever oh my gosh i'll get back with y'all in a minute after i catch my breath so the bait we were using was cut buffalo i threw my net one time and a little uh discharge hoping to get some shad didn't get any shad but got that one buffalo definitely not one of my favorite baits i've never had much luck with it and i've used it quite a bit but we sat here for another 30 minutes and never had a bite so we're gonna reel up we might fish one more spot if we see something real good but i'm pretty satisfied with what we've done today you know we come out here just for a couple hours the afternoon trip and uh didn't expect too much and bam nailed two really good fish and one epic fish all right guys so it's the following day after landing caught his big fish uh if you remember i put a mark on the floor so i could get a length on him i put his tail against the front deck up there and then i took a knife and cut me a little groove in the floor i guess it would have made more sense to use a piece of fishing line or a piece of rope to measure him with but i wasn't thinking right at the time just adrenaline and excitement from the fish so we're going to measure this out real quick and see what it is let's see what he was looks like roughly 52 and a half inches my line's not very straight but just measuring to the middle of the line yeah about 52 and a half 52 and 5 8. so we didn't get an exact length or an exact weight on the fish i was more concerned on getting back in healthy than i was weighing him 10 times and getting the exact weight i wish i had somebody there to help me because by the time i got done handling the fish and just the adrenaline and excitement by the time i got very wayne i could barely even get him off the ground maybe me and landon or one of you guys might catch him again one day so we always got to take care of those big fish guys so real quick i want to give a shout out to steve douglas from monster rod holders he hooked me up with this net not too long ago before i was using a smaller net and there's no way i would have got that big fish in my old net so if i hadn't had this a mighty god he might not have but i just want to say thanks steve and if anybody's in the market for a landing net check out the hydroweb from monster rod holders but i want to thank you guys and god bless you all and we'll see you in the next one [Music] you

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Length: 18min 49sec (1129 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 09 2021