Wes Peart Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) Decided to fish a little industrial park pond here in Alabama starting about 10pm. Probably 45 degrees and raining. Throwing a black 9" MS Slammer with lume tape on top.. within the first 5 casts got a nice fat little 2.5lb bass. Seems like a good start, few casts later there's a massive blow up and a fish on. Fish jumps twice. Feels like a 10lb bass. Turns out it's about a 10lb catfish! Two hours later, I've landed 4 catfish in the same size range waking the Slammer on top. Super weird. Anyone else ever get into a bunch of big cats on swimbait? Never would have thought in a million years I'd catch 4 in one night on a big topwater swimbait. I've accidentally caught one here or there on a crank bait or spinnerbait but never on topwater. Edited March 12, 2017 by Wes P Flymaker, blackdynamite and brushhawg1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthefisherman Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Had my PB cat absolutely crush a homemade gill swimbait at Clear Lake last year. I was so surprised she was able to track my bait at such a fast retrieve! Most vicious swimbait strike I've had so far! dillpick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brushhawg1 Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Yes, I was throwing 6 inch Castiac baby bass at night, the bait was reeled up almost to shore and I got hammered, I was looking down trying to net it and it's was a large cat. It then proceeded to thrash and snap my line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppabass Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Yes weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogervang Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Nice. I'm still waiting on the day where a catfish bite my swimbaits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volfan Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) One of my first swimbait fish was a 15 lb blue cat on a mini slammer. It was awesome. The Potomac has a huge population of blue cats, and you can catch them with some regularity on most bass baits. They destroy hudds. Edited March 13, 2017 by Volfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) I got this beast a few months ago. Edited March 13, 2017 by Craig R8R, dillpick, PNW bass and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakevlastnik Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Ive caught two fish on a ms slammer ever. Both catfish and both in the same week. I no longer fish a slammer haha danthefisherman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishDr Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 It happens fairly frequently - one night I caught a pair of channel cats on a Matt Lures Hard Gill. Most of the time it's the Slammer they hit, and they hit it with evil intent. As for targeting catfish intentionally, yes, you can do that too - especially if you know where there are big, swimbait crunching beasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbalko11 Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 Think about it, cats gotta eat too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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