Bull Reds Slow and Steady in the Usual Places
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Went fishing four times in about a week long span. It seems a plethora of food in the estuary has the bull reds spread out pretty well. We caught four at the beach the day we fished Holly, three in one boat trip to the jetties, and one on the other, and two bull reds the day we fished the Cameron Jetty Pier. The bulls preferred crab everywhere except the pier, where mullet won the day.
The pic shows my son's biggest ever, weighing in at 32 lbs and 43 inches long. Fishing at the beach and jetties has been much faster many other times in the past couple of years, so much more patience was required this trip. The jetties also provided many, many more gafftops. Yesterday, we put about 100 lbs of gafftops in the cooler and the children had a blast doing it. My son and daughter have learned to help me clean them, so it goes pretty quickly, and the meat is as good as any freshwater LA catfish. |
Nice MG!
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My son and I might try for some bulls out at the end of the jetties this weekend |
Nice Pic. A chip off the ole block.
Thanks for the report. |
nice! wheres the pic of the gaftops!? I want to see that slimy mess! lol
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I can attest that the meat is very good. Just not much yield. I cleaned them with an electric knife just like any other fish.
MG, with an boatful of fisher persons and allowing for lost bait, lost fish, undesirables and desired catch, how many crabs/mullet do you bring along for bait for a fully day of fishing? |
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Have to disagree with you on that point. The gafftop is palatable, but is not near as good as a nice blue cat from moving clean water. Good job to your son on the big bull red! |
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OH? I figured all those cats tasted the same once you batter and fried them. Im not a cat fish eater, but momma is, was thinking about bringing home a few fillets and let her fry them up (for her and her momma) |
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its along the same line as how different traditional catfish that people view as good eating taste different.
I have to admit they are good but blue cat still tastes "cleaner" as in no natural taste of its own if you will where gaftops have like a slight hint of a taste to them like bass do and in my opinion taste much the same as bass do. I don't keep any gaftop unless its at least 24" because as mentioned, they are streamlined and don't have a large amount of meat on the bone |
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100lbs of gaftop = Beast mode
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Great report!!! Hoping to get a couple up next week!!
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They eat just fine but don't get carried away theyre still trash fish, if there is such a thing as a trash fish
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Sometimes the Mississippi river can be a really good place to catch nice cats. There was a topic on this 3 or 4 years ago. I think the guy was fishing up in the trees when the water was high. |
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