Originally Posted by gehajake
During the big eclipse of 17 we had supposed totality in this area but it never got really dark, we baited up bank poles on the river just before the eclipse thinking the catfish may go on a big sundown feed for some reason or other during the eclipse, couldnt wait to check our lines afterwards,, nothing, never caught one.

I wonder if big catfish "wake up" slowly, since they always know about when the sundown feed time is coming.

If totality had been for 60 minutes, would that have stirred the cats?