Small River Catfishing - Catching a BIG Channel Catfish from the Bank

I have been bank fishing small rivers for channel catfish since I started fishing. My first fish was a channel catfish caught from the bank of the same river featured in this episode. The difference: the catfish I caught in this video was far bigger than that first channel catfish I caught while bank fishing years ago! Recently, I have changed my catfishing tactics which has resulted in catching many more big catfish. However, it is still tons of fun to go back to where it all started; on the bank of a small river soaking a bait until a catfish bites.

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[rtc]

That was indeed a nice channel kitten 💯

[oblio]

New to the channel, been loving the videos so far, keep it up! Nice work man! :D

[Catfish.Knudsen]

Great video. I hope to maybe start making some myself in the future 🤙🏾

[Catfish.Knudsen]

I love fishing rivers. I have no boat so thats where my best fishing comes. Most folks will fish off bridges & that is good too but its popular. If u take the trek down the river a ways, you can find some great watering holes full of fish that no one goes to.

[Chris-ippz]

I caught a 27 pound channel 15 years ago in a private lake I snuck into lol. Weighed it twice and both times came out to 27.3 and 27.1. So I just called it 27 pounds. I was 15 at the time and have only caught one cat bigger than that. That was a 31 pound flat head in a small river like this in Arkansas

[at]

Oh no, come on man, you don't have a scale? I was trying to guess what that cat weighed and was definitely going to ask at the end, but I was thinking you'd guess too, and that our guesses would probably be pretty similar. But, um, they were not, at all even, close. I paused the video when you said your number and I haven't read the comments yet, but I'm also not going to say my guess till I watch the rest, then come back and see if I can look any closer, and maybe change my guess if I see something I didn't consider before.
And I'm not a pro or probably even that good at cat fishing compared to a lot of folks, but even here in Montana where I'm at, I catch quite a few cats every year, and I do my best to weigh them all, which helps me in the future when I do have to guess. And I also know how easy it is to guess their weight higher than it really is, because they DO look big, and especially if it's one of the biggest ones you've caught so far. I do that very thing, and that's why I'd rather weigh than guess their size.
I'm thinking or wondering if the camera made a difference in how I'm viewing it, maybe I'm getting a way different perception, because there's quite a spread between our numbers, and I guess I'm just assuming you've caught a ton of these and therefore should be a good judge of it's weight. So yeah, I'm not calling bs on your guess, but maybe a little bs on the fact you don't have a good scale with you!

[brandonshaw]

Stopped watching when you pulled the glove out