Big Blue Cats...

No I am not have a psychedelic experience where I am seeing large felines covered in blue fur. I am seeing the big blue catfish we caught at Lake Sam Rayburn yesterday. Me, along with Cathy and her brother Matt hooked some good ones and ended up with the days total being 37. 

Cathy clowns with the big cats. I had a 6, Cathy had a 5 and Matt had a four pounder. That

s about 17 pounds of catfish on the hoof in this photo. 

Matt nets for Cathy. Note the dingy water color from the run off of recent rains. Cat fish did not mind. In sheltered areas the sun was warm but on the open lake the west wind was chilly. Water is 34' deep at this spot. When you are on the lake all those stumps that have "MB" for mudbelly spray painted on them? Stay away, they are mine. 

The big white pelicans have migrated down from the north. In this photo you may notice the water turkeys perched in the tall dead trees. That little group of pelicans swam all the way across the lake directly to them. It's the lead pelicans job to know that those turkeys pooping in the water draws the shad to the surface for easy snatching and eating. He does his job well. 

Lakeside fall colors. 

The whole pile. 

Of course an impromptu fish fry broke out on our arrival home. You wonder what makes our kind? It's catching and frying fish all the time.