09-13-2003, 11:33 AM
[cool]Hey BFFG, is this your first visit to our forum? If so, Welcome.
On the catfish thing, catching them on powerbait is not that uncommon. Just about anywhere catfish and trout coexist, folks fishing with PB will hook catfish. The flip side of the coin is that trout will sometimes munch the more "exotic" baits being fished for cats.
In Lake Cachuma, up by Santa Barbara, I caught quite a few decent trout on chunks of anchovy, strips of salted makerel or bonito and even on blood baits fished for the channel cats there. There are a couple of guys on the Utah BFT board who have recently reported catching trout on chunks of "aged" carp meat being soaked for cats.
Most people think cats only hit nasty baits, soaked on the bottom...at night. In fact, in clear waters where the visibility is good enough, channel cats become "sight feeders" and will chase flies and lures...during the day. I have caught literally thousands of cats on artificials over the years.
I don't know what kind of fish you caught off the pier that was deformed, but there have been a lot of inshore species affected by the runoff and sewage outfalls along the coast. I have taken several species of bottom dwellers...especially kingfish (tomcod)...with tumors and deformities.
When fishing off the piers at night, you are likely to hook some rare and wierd-looking fish. Some of the deepwater nocturnal fish sometimes wander closer to shore at night, especially during the solder months. And during the warm summer months...especially during an "El Nino" year, you can sometimes pick up some exotics from farther south.
If you fish often enough, in enough different places, you will accumulate your share of wierd fishing stories. Of course, with some fishermen, the truth gets kinda bent over the years of telling the stories anyway. But, you didn't hear that from me.
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On the catfish thing, catching them on powerbait is not that uncommon. Just about anywhere catfish and trout coexist, folks fishing with PB will hook catfish. The flip side of the coin is that trout will sometimes munch the more "exotic" baits being fished for cats.
In Lake Cachuma, up by Santa Barbara, I caught quite a few decent trout on chunks of anchovy, strips of salted makerel or bonito and even on blood baits fished for the channel cats there. There are a couple of guys on the Utah BFT board who have recently reported catching trout on chunks of "aged" carp meat being soaked for cats.
Most people think cats only hit nasty baits, soaked on the bottom...at night. In fact, in clear waters where the visibility is good enough, channel cats become "sight feeders" and will chase flies and lures...during the day. I have caught literally thousands of cats on artificials over the years.
I don't know what kind of fish you caught off the pier that was deformed, but there have been a lot of inshore species affected by the runoff and sewage outfalls along the coast. I have taken several species of bottom dwellers...especially kingfish (tomcod)...with tumors and deformities.
When fishing off the piers at night, you are likely to hook some rare and wierd-looking fish. Some of the deepwater nocturnal fish sometimes wander closer to shore at night, especially during the solder months. And during the warm summer months...especially during an "El Nino" year, you can sometimes pick up some exotics from farther south.
If you fish often enough, in enough different places, you will accumulate your share of wierd fishing stories. Of course, with some fishermen, the truth gets kinda bent over the years of telling the stories anyway. But, you didn't hear that from me.
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