jbrokey, this is real encouraging I am deffinetly going to stock blues I would not care if they were 5 times the price of channels..But I am concerned about this robustness issue, I need to learn as much as I can from you guys, and quit guessing.....
You know I wonder if there is not several different strains of these fish!!?? I always here of people in South Carolina Reffer to the blues as somthing called "Arakensaw Blue catfish" this must be a different strain of blue, some what like the copernose and native bluegill, F1 bass and northern bass. There has to be some sort of genetic differances in these fish because ther is clearly two diffrent sides to this story!
Also there are probably a number of other factors that play in this as well such as: Climate, water chemistry...ect.
Most of the pros around here spend most of their time studing Bass and Bluegill, and don't have time for big cats. I willing to bet there is a wealth of knoledge out there that we don't know yet.
One thing that does strike is that I did notices that jbrockey was much further north than Dudley or Newbee, this could be a clue...who knows.
I want to express my thanks to all you for sharing your experiances. Hopefully we can get more examples and gather more data and draw a decent hypothisis into this is occuring.....
