Pickwick catfish guide and champion catfish angler Phil King loves using light tackle for battling feisty Pickwick channel cats.
However, he says that when he is really looking for a thrill — and he doesn’t have a boat full of customers — he breaks out a fly rod purely for its entertainment value.
“They just work that thing over double,” King chuckled. “It’s a lot of fun. And it can sometimes take a pretty long time to get one of the bigger 6- or 7-pound channel cats in.”
With a fly rod, anglers can almost slip their night crawlers in the water with nary a ripple, much like a crappie angler would slip a jig into the water.
Then if you don’t get bit, all you’ve got to do is pull it out and keep on rolling down the bank, dropping your bait in likely looking spots.
“The only reason I don’t use them on guide trips is because it can get a little crazy and dangerous with four people all battling fish on fly rods at the same time,” King said.
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