Barrels full of Catfish caught by Soupy!

[big country]

soupy i was an other website the other day and seen a pict. of you and friend pulling catfish out of a dried up ditch ,how many and what sizes were you gettin??????

[Soupy_1us]

Between 6 of us and a days work.... Little over 600 lbs of cats....(the other guys kept some carp too)
Backwater dropped out so fast that year.. those fish got caught in the fields and ditches....I found them about 5 AM while squirrel huntin' and was still there at 5 PM that afternoon.
We also had to drag about 3 thousand pounds of carp out of the way so we could get to those cats.
Biggest cat went about 40 lbs.....
This was part of my share.. The smallest fish in this picture was that 2 lb crappie:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/Soupy_1us/Fishing/103_03691.jpg All fish were caught by dip net or by hand.
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/Soupy_1us/Fishing/8817.jpg I had about 150 lbs myself some of the larger ones I had dressed already.

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/Soupy_1us/Fishing/IMG_20081-1.jpg

[Soupy_1us]

Poor Boys got Poors Ways...... It was more fun than work... I don't want to do that again... I couldn't walk for three days after that day. :confused0024:

[big country]

well it sounds like you had fun catchin' but the cleanin' that don't sound to fun....lol thats allota fish.....

[Soupy_1us]

This is the true meanin' of "Hoggin'" fish.......
The cleanin' part just comes with it.

[Illinoisgiller]

That looks like it would be a good time . I've got a few in my childhood that were trapped by falling water, but that looks to be the "mother load" :confused0068:Mike

[Soupy_1us]

It was, at the time, one of the biggest catches I've ever had anything to do with.....
In a small area there were thousands of fish trapped by the falling water....Also what helped us was that the water had come up on standing green soybeans and they say that , that took the oxygen out of the low water.....Those poor fish didn't have a chance to survive.....Didn't have a camera with me , as I said, I was squirrel hunting at the time I found them . We hauled three pick-up trucks loaded with fish from those ditches that day. The Buzzards got the ones we didn't get.... And they tasted good too.

[Soupy_1us]

As you can see by this picture, we used everything we could get our hands on to hold these fish...

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/Soupy_1us/Fishing/Theonlywaytofish1.jpg

And by this next picture, I weren't in no mood for no picture takin'.

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/Soupy_1us/Fishing/Project3.jpg

[Soupy_1us]

We drew a pretty good size crowd of people that day... We had Kentucky State Police takin' pictures of us and the ditch was under a public road and the public was there to enjoy the sites.....They told us that there wasn't anything they could do as long as we had permission to be on that farmers land... We fed him so, he didn't try to stop us.
The fish were gonna die any ways....

[Timotha7]

It is a good thing you were there to take them out and put them to some use
Have seen to many flooded areas full of dead, wasted, fish that could have fed a lot of people

[gofish]

did that a few years back here too soupy....cept put all the bass an crappie back in the river.......cept fer a few we stocked in the farmers pond lol......didnt git nowhere that many cats though