The strongest fresh water fighters are, I think, Channel Catfish.
And you can easily catch them on a flyrod--although not so easily
with flies. To catch channel cats I use a long strip of fresh
pork skin (not smoked) threaded onto a plastic worm rig,
with a split shot at the eye of the hook. Channel Cats don't jump, but
they sure do pull, and they never give up. A spinning rod might
work better than the flyrod, by the way.....but I don't even own one.
So I use what I have.

RE "And tossing split shot and pork rinds with a fly rod ? Good
lord, that's just *so* wrong. "

.....Grossing out pince nez purists is half the fun.

On 5/23/05 2:48 PM, in article
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wrote:

RE "And tossing split shot and pork rinds with a fly rod ? Good
lord, that's just *so* wrong. "

....Grossing out pince nez purists is half the fun.

Well, that and wondering how they'll pronounce "pince nez"...

:-)

Bill

In article ,
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

wrote:
The strongest fresh water fighters are, I think, Channel Catfish.
...

No, not even close, the strongest fighters in fresh water are
the humongous striped bass below the Guntersville Dam on the
Tennessee River, but we were talking about hardest fighting
freshwater fish *pound-for-pound* and I'll still go with the
bluegill.

It's really no contest. If bluegill grew to 5 pounds regularly, nobody
would bother with bass...

..... and if they grew to 20 pounds, there would be no sal****er
sportfishing...

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"asadi" wrote in news:42914763$0$76429
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"Ken Fortenberry" I'd love to go fly fishing for smallmouth with
poppers.

Come on up, I can drift you over some major smallie water, and as Frank
Church has proven, a couple years running, they're more than willing to
take poppers far earlier and later than I would have thought.

Well come on up *IF* if it ever stops fekn raining

Fly who is glad he has a boat, he might need it

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:

The strongest fresh water fighters are, I think, Channel Catfish.
...


No, not even close, the strongest fighters in fresh water are
the humongous striped bass below the Guntersville Dam on the
Tennessee River,

Nope. Not even close. The strongest fighting fresh-water fish (at least
in North America) is the white sturgeon. The world record is 468lbs.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

There are stories of white sturgeon over a thousand pounds, but the
Canadian record is " STURGEON, WHITE 800 HAROLD HILTZ
FRASER RIVER, BC 4/22/1972".

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