Life is like Catfishing -you are rewarded for your consistency!

Lake Belton - beautiful and DEEP! Great early morning headed out of Rogers Park!

We were fishing in about 30-40 feet of SUPER CALM water... the water temp was 63 degrees!

We caught a boatload of Blues and Channel Kats - we threw back a bunch for next time.

Here's a keeper... BlueCat 1.5 pounder - Rick tricked this catfish into the boat by saying and I quote...  

"Here Fishy Fishy - free lip piercing!"

I get to brag - 

here is the most incredible family a guy could have...

Harper, Addelyn, Owen, Wilder, Alex (Ali-cat), Len, 

and on my left - Ashley (Crashie), Maisie, Nick, Bayley, Harry, and Wilder... 

I am so blessed!    

DAZY ADVENTURES - Learning Katfishing the hard way...

WARNING - this blog post contains hurtful photos...

She is getting bigger by the day and really loves Katfishing! 

She is only 8 months old and already has a nose for the Kats...

Here are a few of the BIG Kats she helped sniff out.

These are Blues and Channel Kats.

To say Dazy is curious is a BIG understatement... 

she could not stop barking and snapping at the Katfish - UNTIL...

(warning - next photo is bloody)

Yep - she stepped on a dorsal fin of one of the Kats...

The dorsal fin is located on the top of the Katfish and is poisonous!

It went into one of her paws.

To say the least - she did NOT get out of the chair for the rest of the trip.

On the way back to the dock - 

Dazy and I were talking through her pain and wondered out loud - 

we know about Gulls that fly over the sea - they are seagulls 

and we know about gulls like these that fly over the lake - they are lake gulls - 

but, what do we call gulls that fly over the bay?

 

 

DAZY!

This is Dazy - AKA... a natural Catfish Sniffer!

In no time at all she is sniffing out excellent catfish spots! 

She is an eight-month-old Golden-Doodle

Her 'Official" name is DazyDoodleDug

This is a name our grandkids helped us with... 

This is Dazy's first Cervicko Catfish... 16.5 lbs!

Not sure which is nicer - the camo pants or the big cat!?

The Cervisko fish is named after my good friend Bob Cervenka - 

any cat we catch over 15 lbs is released and this concept is something Bob will NEVER understand!

Looking forward to many many Catfishing trips with Dazy!