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Ok kinda misleading but last night decided to try to catch some of the big cats that come up to feed but never seem to want to hit a hook. Well decided since they wanted floating food I got the
handy cordless drill, a bucket of pellets and a handfull of dog food. Drill a 1/8 inch hole in the dogfood and slide onto a #8 baitholder and attach 12 inches below a pencil bobber. Toss a couple
of handfulls of catfish food and then toss the bobber in the middle of it. And I'll be darned it worked caught these three in about an hour biggest about 7 or 8 pounds. Now for the catbass
never knew they were pellet trained but the third fish I caught was a 14 inch bass on dog food!

Catbass, is that like a jackalope??

Bob, nice cats...blackened, or fried ? lol. Here's another idea to try with a little less effort. Cut a square of cardboard from a thick box the same size as your food pellets. Put a hook thru it and toss it out with your feed...we do this for the kids that want to "catch" a big one, it's hilarious to watch. About that catbass...

Bob, Don't put too much of that on your banana trees. You might burn them.

Dave

Just a thought on eating cats. An old boy from Alabama that catchs cats and sells them brought a half of a 22 pounder to a fish fry we had. I thought of this is going to be bad. It was great!! I ask him what he does to these big cats. he said that you have to bleed them while they are still alive. They are a very bloody fish and if you let them die with that blood in them they are strong. He cuts their tail off up into the meat just a little while they are alive. They will spray out a stream of blood. Clean them right away. He cut his into pieces about like a perch filet and deep fried them in peanut oil. This with homemade hush puppieds and a beer, man what a meal.

Hey Tom if ya notice they are kinda bloody, they wouldn't lay still for the pictures and got a case of tire iron disease!

I wondered if it was that or you were fishing with a .22! I've known offshore fishermen to take a .45 to land big sharks.