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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on December 17, 2005, 5:27 am If you're as sad as a hound Unlike other fish species -- This is hardly a news flash; this "secret" has been spreading for years Link: Read the article
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Catch Virginia's Monster Cats Now!
Huge blue catfish swim the waters of the James River and Buggs Island
Lake. Experts target these trophies in cold weather. Here's how they do
it. (December 2005)
By Marc N. McGlade
dog's eye about your
fish-catching success during
the winter months, perhaps a
blue catfish venture to a
Virginia location serving up
ridiculously big specimens
would ease the suffering.
Blue cats can turn an
otherwise uneventful winter
day into a memory that will
last a long time.
particularly the photophobic
striped bass -- blue catfish
bite in Virginia when sunny
conditions are present, or
under a gunmetal sky. Day,
night or in between, these
bottom dwellers feed
throughout the year. Cold,
hot or comfortable air
temperatures do not matter
much to blue cats.
like kudzu across Virginia and the rest of the South. Blue catfish are
voracious predators and dine upon a broad range of prey. They tend to
favor medium to large rivers (particularly tidal rivers in Virginia) that
have deep channels, although they are prolific in some large lakes, too.
Nowhere are there better examples of prime blue cat fisheries than
Richmond's James River and Southside's Buggs Island Lake.
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