New Record Catfish on My Boat

I can't tell if that's a fish off its own tongue I got a whole tree it's a fish it's a big fish it's pulling like a limb like limbs don't swim off hey folks I'm Peter melon horn if you're a subscriber to the channel welcome back and if you're new to the channel please consider subscribing and if you do be sure to hit that little bell so you'll be notified when new videos come out hey come along with me on this trip as I tell you the story of catching my new personal best blue catfish on sandy Cooper alright folks so this trip came about at the very last minute my wife was going out of town on a little short trip so I got to basically play bachelor for the weekend the fishing back home when my home Lake was kind of slow so I decided to load up and go someplace different and the weather look good so I decided to come down the sandy Cooper plan is today to drag some white perch I got a bunch of and brought it from home they should make excellent baits down here scale them first and foremost all right guys so the battle-plan that's pretty simple I'm just going to cover some water it's slick as glass out here you really don't see this like this combat often so it's kind of odd so we can pretty much fish wherever we want to fish it's really no big worry about big waves or anything like that so for now we can finish wherever we want so what I'm going to do is I just came out to a hump an area over there's a little change in the bottom contour I'm gonna start drifting up relatively shallow gonna drift out deeper across a little bit of stuff here just to see what's working the Intel is that fish are deeper but it's pretty warm today man it's like 55 degrees it's overcast some thing some of these fish may be moving up shallower I see some bass fisherman and crappie fishermen within a mile of me on some of these homes so who knows who knows what's going on drifting is the best way to cover water sadly this place is known for drifting drifts off big wind IVA needs the trolling motor to move the boat so the good thing is I can keep it really slow and really control it well so we just hope the wind stays on our side from now drifting white perch six aunty rigs on the bottle and I've got heads and fillets so we'll just see what they takes if we can figure out where fish are all right guys think I've got a small fish going on pinky and a rod go nice little pull there there's a little ditch that comes through here and it's kind of what I'm dropping into the line it is slick out here normally and I say normally you don't get days like this a lot wears this slick a little winds nice a lot of winds bad I try not to ask them in here because when it hits you it's it's bad so we'll take it is what it is work it with the trolling motor down to anchors they everybody saying drag baits but I'm dying to anchor up to pop out a planer board here to get a bigger spread thanks blue tell you what mice keeping them neat be good he's gonna get to get back get the hook out of him there we go Santi Cooper blue cat first one of the trip I happy to see him happy to see him hello world shoot this one of those odd days where it was glass slick on Santi which doesn't happen often so I was using a trolling motor to actually move the boat that's how slick it was ended up dragging a little bit further was using white perch to cut white perch for bait and I made a little bit further sort of coming off the hump and boom another rod one it maybe hooked up on pinky again here let's see stay button yep what's coming up the boat boom there it is hey it is coming up a little bit here and water depth I'm coming up on the edge of this hump that I'm working over toward coming up out of that ditch a little bit better fish fishing thirty pound line Andy monster this is a big cat fever medium heavy action rod an Ancient Mariner I think they call this a 6000 series real kind of in between a Abu Garcia sixty-five hundred and seventy thousand Lord enough to catch any of these fish be number two it's not exploding five would be better to catch right ain't been dragging an hour yet and I've got to we'll take that good blue blue 15 err that's a good finish I'll catch them all day long [Music] [Music] yes guy's good-looking Santi Cooper blue kid now hey no complaints there that's a good fish so keep on drifting keep on dragging this these these humps and islands unsub merged Islands out here pretty big so took a ball to come off of it but I didn't get much further and this time I stuck a really good fish I've got this line going in a different direction that's generally a sign there's a fish I'll hold that rod for a second what that was doing poof he's there he is there maybe in some other lines we'll see you'll get a waypoint on that last one that's a good fish this is a good fish on that this is a better fish much better fish how big it is maybe something light around this hump I was working underneath the boat I have not seen it yet he feels minimal this is the first good workout I've had on this being M Roth it's a good fish there we go glad I got the net he's active he's active I'm trying to get to the bottom don't like the nursing too much [Music] so can you get him on this next pass I [Music] need one more crank I need one more crank one more crank one more pull up we got color we turn the wrong way turn the wrong way getting this time God did not want to cooperate he keeps diving every time I'm trying some video this second yes good looking fish good looking blue kid drift a little bit further and I picked off a nice channel cat home thank you what's up the pay fee today man this thing has been hit a bunch kind of big and then slamming I got a live bait I put a live bait out on one of these don't remember what's right I put it on maybe this pinky I don't I can't remember you got to remember stuff like that folks that is remember what bait you gonna eat your life it can definitely help you if you're dialing in on a certain bait now today I'm using this white perch but you got fillets you got heads you can fish them live so don't use some variation there I've got some friends that are maniacal about it and write it down but having some little system does help especially if they start keying in on one baked thing that's a big channel case why it's a good fit that's a good one this is what we used to catch on Lake Wylie he'll hear me talk about that's not having decent channel cats anymore and good fish which we still had on this side send me on some parts of the country that's a small channel cat but for us it's a good one world record channel cat is from this lake 58 pounds called a long long time ago it's a good channel cat right there boy wish we still had him that big after I came down off the owl and came down to basically a large flat it was about 25 26 feet deep no real changes I was dragging across here not really getting hit and I had to ride golf thought it was almost tongue at first thought it was pulling the limb and finally I felt it move I'm gonna let this video roll in its entirety so you can see how long the fight took how long it took to get this fish in and just see what all was involved I can't tell if that's a fish off its on we're getting ready to find out it's hung I got a whole tree if it's a fish it's a big fish I hadn't felt the head shake day waiting for a head shake it's a fish it's a big fish looking for a head shake on it it's off to the side of the boat I don't know and this fish even knows its hood but it's kind of swimming at the boat I'll be honest with you at first I was kind of wondering if it was a fish or if I was dragging a limb but finally as it got close to the boat I felt some head shake some head move and I realized I had a massive fish like ain't no head shake - let's see what happens when I leave it right there we're still coming to me up there you guys even knows he's hooked now that's a fish limbs don't swim off got the net now we're ready to play ball that is a decent fish that is a decent fish breaks on him it's a pretty good bit of drag on that fish that ions ain't too much it's a good fish guys got out he'll beat flat next to this hump that's where this one was [Music] you tell by that rod being that's a good fish as a kid fish man I hope he stays button similar summer I'm twenty five feet of water that right look at that rod good gracious they can't fever medium heavy it's candy cane Dover in the water this is a big fish very big fish not sure if it's a flathead or a blue apparently sees the boat yeah rod that's a heavy fish that's a heavy fish may end the year on a high note right here it's a big fish boys and girls narcissists won in odd it's a big fish big fish I have not seen it I would thank flatheads just by the way it acted to begin with I cannot get it high enough to even see it yet big fish big fish just a button fella trying to put just enough pressure on it keep it at the bottom but he's going to the bottom it's acting like a flathead I see it on the sonar let's get fish it just keeps on pulling line though not seeing it yep I always rap I felt him there he is he's huge he's huge if I give him boated it'll be the biggest fish I've ever caught I just missed him in the net yes there you go guys that's internet and I'm telling you I knew it was big I was thinking 75 or 80 and it's just a big fish I've caught 60 60 has been my personal best my personal best has been right around that mark 61 pounds somewhere in there this fish looked bigger I think that's because this fish was somewhat short at least I think I say short it was about 49 inches but it had a lot of girth a lot of tail a lot of back in and I was a little bit concerned about getting it in the boat so I actually called a buddy of mine James Madeline he was down here and I said hey bud are you nearby he was only five minutes away I said vegan right over here I would really appreciate it that way I can get some good pictures of this this guy's the biggest fish I ever caught let me fill down EDIUS that is Abbyson I'll manage to get it in the boat waited on the scale waited several times reset it put new batteries in I couldn't get 75 pounds I have a 70 pound fish which is bigger than anything I've ever caught so no complaints there great fish fish of a lifetime very blessed to get it and just very thankful thanks to James's dad for riding over and getting some pictures of that fish and being there in case I needed some help getting it over to side because lifting a fish like that is a little bit harder than you think I got it in the boat okay and got it weighed but me and a great day great day of fishing downhill sandy Cooper well folks if you made it this far thank you for watching please consider subscribing and here are a couple of more videos that I think you're gonna like [Music]

Channel: Dieter Melhorn Fishing

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Length: 21min 8sec (1268 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 08 2020