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James River, VA
« on: April 06, 2013, 04:37:18 PM »
I took first place in a Wounded Warrior/Disabled Vets fishing tournament today on the James River.  Caught my biggest ever blue catfish.  A real toad at 59 lbs.  I was using fresh cut shad.  What a fish, thought it was a striper until I got it to the surface and it rolled on the surface.   :yike:




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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2013, 06:36:59 PM »
Nice job!  :tup:
looks like fun.
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2013, 06:49:19 PM »
Awesome job.  Nice. 

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2013, 07:22:43 PM »
Nice pics, but I've never seen a catfish in a red jacket--OH, sorry.... :chuckle:  My parents lived in Hampton, after they retired, and the little church in Phoebus where they were married, in 1944, is still there!  if Dad had gotten discharged from the Army a week later, I'd be a Viginian instead of a Birch-bark Yankee....  :hello:
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2013, 07:43:05 PM »
Nice work Machias

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2013, 07:51:56 PM »
Cool, How big do those things get?
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2013, 08:18:42 PM »
Thanks guys, the current state record is 143 pounder caught in 2011,  but anything over 30 pounds is considered a trophy.  The guy I was fishing with today is a hardcore blue cat hunter and his personal best is 56.

Here is a photo of the VA State record


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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2013, 08:38:41 PM »
 :tup: nice work and nice fish!

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2013, 09:03:59 PM »
Nice catch Fred :tup: How deep and how much weight?

. The James holds some big cats and smallies.

you're having too much fun out there on the E coast  :chuckle:

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2013, 09:08:46 PM »
 :tup:  Glad you had fun!!!!

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2013, 05:27:46 AM »
Nice catch Fred :tup: How deep and how much weight?

. The James holds some big cats and smallies.

you're having too much fun out there on the E coast  :chuckle:

We wer anchored on 17 feet, had baits on one side of the boat soaking in 25 feet and my fish came out of 8 foot, off a feeder creek.  We were using 10 and 12 oz weights.
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2013, 07:05:51 AM »
thats awesome fred,cool pics ...

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2013, 07:14:13 AM »
Wholely catfish!!!!! :tup: :hello:
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2013, 09:35:21 AM »
Right on Fred, awesome job.  Heading back to WV this summer and will be hitting them in the Ohio River again....

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2013, 07:09:54 AM »
Right on Fred, awesome job.  Heading back to WV this summer and will be hitting them in the Ohio River again....

Good luck!  What part of WV?
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2013, 07:33:53 AM »
Holy crap, Fred. You'd better watch out or you're not going to want to come back when it's time.
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2013, 08:54:31 AM »
Trust me, no danger of that happening.  All you have to do is get in your car and try and go ANYWHERE and you start dreaming about living anywhere else in the world!!  :)
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2013, 06:54:39 AM »
Wow...nice cat! :tup:
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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2013, 07:46:53 AM »
Nice fish!

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Re: James River, VA
« Reply #19 on: April 16, 2013, 03:33:45 PM »
Thanks guys!
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