Catfishing on Conroe is still good!!

[bigonegotaway]

We took some kids catfishing the other day, small and large kids, Monday the 23rd, we caught 100 plus and off the lake about 12 noon. Here is a few pictures.

[great white fisherman]

nice good eating fish. Did you use shad up against the bulk heads or punch bait?

Release to the grease!

[rainbowrunner]

These fish were caught off one of our baited brushpiles, in 20 ft. I had bought a box of worms for my 6 year-old to catch some big bream, but he ended up catching more catfish than bream.

[spitfire]

Nice mess of fish!

[FISHNNUTT]

Nice mess o fish rainbowrunner congrats!!
How do you go about baiting a hole for catfish ??

[rainbowrunner]

We use range cubes in mesh bags. Usually takes less than an hour to get them coming to it. For years we found or made brushpiles for crappie and bass, (I've been fishing Conroe sinse the mid seventies), but then Bigonegotaway (Big David) started catfishing on these brushpiles and we been keeping our freezers full ever since. Most of our brushpiles are on ledges or points in 15 - 25 foot of water. But you can find some good dropoffs or points on the main or feeder creeks or fish on tank dams. You don't have to have brush to catch catfish.

One thing I have noticed is that when we get the catfish baited up good, we seldom catch crappie. I usually always have my jig rig handy and I always have to try to catch crappie or big bluegills. We used to use shad but found them kind of hard to come by lately unless you get there really early and catch them around the docks with lights. So, we started using the cheesebait mainly for convienence. We use light tacle spinning rigs to make it a little more "sporty".

[HEADSHAKER]

Very interesting!Have you fished the brush pile off the tram!

[The Machine]

that is alot of cats

[lunkerbrad]

nice mess of cats .

[Eric H]

Great catch what ramp do you go from and where can I catch some for a 4th of july fish fry. I would like to go wed or thurs