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We used to go down to Farmers Market in Dallas where there used to be a lot of meat markets.We would get mostly chicken gizz in 5 gal.buckets as well as 5 gal. buckets of chicken blood. We would set out trot lines bait them up, and chum the length of the lines with the livers and then go back and pour the chicken blood along the lines. And that's after the gizzards and blood spent a month or so in or wonderful Texas heat. The smell would drive a maggot off a gut wagon, it definitely created that gag reflex. But we caught catfish up to 29 lbs. Which was the largest high fin blue we caught. Most fish averaged near 20 lbs. Good fishing but hell setting lines. The biggest flat head we caught was 59 lbs. Caught it using a 2 lb. mud cat for bait. Flat heads prefer live food not bottom feeding. At least that's what my fishing partner said. My experience on trot lining was nill back then but to me the proof was in the catch.
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SGT Tomas "Huey" Husted
PO1 John Johnson it's work but it's fun. When reach under water and grab that line and it's jerks right out of your hand you know it's fish on. But what kind of fish? You grab your great big fish net and grab that line and pull yourself along and see that 20 lbs plus pretty channel cat. Let me tell you they don't just swim in that net. That's another fight. You get that fish in and you can feel that line and it's another fish on, it is fun. When we caught that 59 pounder our net handle broke. The fight of a fish that size is unbelievable. The fish was still in the net but my partner jumped into the lake he pushed I pulled still took another 10 minutes to get that fish in the boat. It was the best tasting cat fish I ever ate. Meat as white as crappie.
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