Reply by: catman82      Posted: 6/18/2012 6:43:22 PM     Points: 20    

Wow nice job FISHRANGLER!! That Cat is a Beast to say the Least!!!

Mind saying what you landed him off of?

 Reply by: Bigjumpingfish      Posted: 6/18/2012 6:47:54 PM     Points: 473    

Whoa!
Very nice.

 Reply by: not too old to fish      Posted: 6/18/2012 6:59:57 PM     Points: 442    

WOW, now that's a cat to be proud of for sure, congrats. So much for the theory the big cats only bite at night. That's a fish of a lifetime for most people and you have caught how many in that range? It takes a lot of persistance and patients along with some serious skills to land fish like that and you sure have that, way to go!

 Reply by: Show me da fishy      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:13:52 PM     Points: 1255    

Nice one

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:33:20 PM     Points: 4654    

Sure I have no problem sharing what I landed him on
Pflueger Medalist 6080X Heavy Saltwater Spinning Reel
shakespeare tiger rod 7 ft Extream heavy
65 # main braid
40 # leader on a slip bobber set up.

Buy a inexspensive rod but use a 100$ reel.

 Reply by: fom      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:35:56 PM     Points: 888    

Well done Daris.

FOM

 Reply by: JKaboom      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:37:57 PM     Points: 938    

Way to go Fishrangler!!!

 Reply by: ObsessedFisherman      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:38:40 PM     Points: 2883    

Sick sick sick you da man

Peace and perch grease

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:42:30 PM     Points: 4654    

Hey Rob it was the lucky cat rod and reel too
Just thought you would get a kick out of that.
Being as you hate it so much.

 Reply by: bratfish      Posted: 6/18/2012 7:48:05 PM     Points: 903    

dam nice fish!! bet it was fun to catch. nice catch!!!

 Reply by: EOrf      Posted: 6/18/2012 8:36:38 PM     Points: 2482    

Great Fish Sir

 Reply by: catman82      Posted: 6/18/2012 8:39:14 PM     Points: 20    

Nice setup! Thx

 Reply by: IceFishingFool      Posted: 6/18/2012 9:13:03 PM     Points: 4775    

Only one word needed Daris

AWESOM !

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/18/2012 9:18:12 PM     Points: 4654    

Thank you all very much!
It does mean a lot to me to hear good things about this.
To me and some others it's pretty cool.

 Reply by: dmccull2000      Posted: 6/18/2012 9:20:52 PM     Points: 258    

Congrats on an AWESOME fish! That is a big boy, on some big boy gear! Great job

 Reply by: Billmaster      Posted: 6/18/2012 9:42:19 PM     Points: 73    

Great kitty! What did you use for bait catnip! Nice fish nice release!

 Reply by: Inlandsharpie777      Posted: 6/18/2012 10:02:22 PM     Points: 610    

My god.... That is truly incredible! Killer fish!



Stay Sharp

 Reply by: Troutkillah      Posted: 6/18/2012 10:20:01 PM     Points: 80    

Heck yeah, pumps me up to catch some more too!

 Reply by: cmarbles      Posted: 6/18/2012 10:58:31 PM     Points: 3106    

congratulations my friend! hell of a fish ,now you have work to do! get after ole stripe!

 Reply by: spicyhombre      Posted: 6/18/2012 11:51:51 PM     Points: 194    

Great catch! Congrats

 Reply by: takeakidfishing      Posted: 6/19/2012 12:04:32 AM     Points: 6350    

Congrats Daris.One heck of a fish.

Erik

 Reply by: Catman1979      Posted: 6/19/2012 12:53:18 AM     Points: 3993    

MY HONEST OPINION:
Had to work tonight on my b-day, and all the doom and gloom ended when I got in my car and saw your text! What an amazing catch brother, glad to see the old patterns holding strong. Daris isn't just the 'catman' of Aurora, but the state in my book.

I was sitting out late the other week, wondering why the hell I am going for this record. Posts like this, help me keep focused on my goal, knowing I am not the only nut. We are both goin' for the same record, but rest assured that you are doing a way better job then I am, not sure if or when that will change.

As long as you keep goin', I will too brother!

MY JEALOUS OPINION:

Daris is a no good dirty rat. If you notice, he is totally stiff arming the cat, and I bet for darn sure that he didn't wet his hands before holding it. Thirty seven pounds, yeah right. That looks like nineteen at best? Easy to land a cat that size when you have a boat man, and rest assured that the photo is fake. And who, in god's name, wears yellow hats?

In all honesty, I watched water drop planes fly overhead at Plo the other day while fishing before work, taking water from my spot. I am sure one of those planes took the Pueblo record away and dropped it in the fire. That's where my morale is :)

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/19/2012 6:28:47 AM     Points: 4654    

LOL

 Reply by: Coyute      Posted: 6/19/2012 8:11:25 AM     Points: 3185    

Nice one! grats

 Reply by: nightangler      Posted: 6/19/2012 3:09:51 PM     Points: 1778    

Congrats Fishrangler!!! That is one hell of a kitty!!!!!!!!

 Reply by: KingFisher13      Posted: 6/19/2012 5:48:58 PM     Points: 92    

Very Large is an understatement . . . That thing is a MONSTER!

Great catch!!!

 Reply by: Fishful Thinker      Posted: 6/19/2012 6:04:08 PM     Points: 4381    

Slob, 'Rangler...pure slob. Great catch! CL

 Reply by: Gemcityslayer      Posted: 6/19/2012 10:52:26 PM     Points: 0    

Caught on perch?

 Reply by: Gemcityslayer      Posted: 6/19/2012 10:53:55 PM     Points: 0    

Awesome fish by the way. Trophy cat in any place in the country.

 Reply by: Ch00Chee      Posted: 6/20/2012 12:24:21 AM     Points: 482    

whao! nice cat! it's so dark!

 Reply by: IceFishingFool      Posted: 6/20/2012 6:16:34 AM     Points: 4775    

Magic marker art LOL

 Reply by: hogsback1971      Posted: 6/20/2012 7:18:32 AM     Points: 61    

Nice D!

 Reply by: fishinwfoos      Posted: 6/20/2012 8:00:11 AM     Points: 1475    

Daris,

I have been following this one from my phone but i wanted to wait until I was back at my computer in order to personally Congratulate you on your accomplishment!! Well done and thanks for sharing.

Jake

 Reply by: Crewser      Posted: 6/20/2012 6:42:38 PM     Points: 160    

GEEZ that ones goin' down in the books! that is a BEAST! nice fish, and i'm kinda new to catching cats, so I hope you don't mind if i ask what bait you were using. Again nice fish

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/20/2012 7:30:58 PM     Points: 4654    

The baits that are working, keeping them secret these days sorry about that. In this case its not that big a deal. it was a bunch of simple night crawles .But if you start reading up on past threads you will find lots of info that will help you out more. What I do is not what most other cat anglers do I think I may be the only one.. It probably would not be much help for you. Good luck to you.
Thanks again everyone.

 Reply by: Crewser      Posted: 6/20/2012 8:25:39 PM     Points: 160    

Thank you for the advice and great cat

 Reply by: chatfisher      Posted: 6/21/2012 9:01:26 AM     Points: 0    

awesome that's a big one

Question what makes the cats you and Jman caught so different in color?
Is it the water or something else?

 Reply by: mtnmn78      Posted: 6/21/2012 11:36:41 AM     Points: 0    

Daris,

Are there any or many smaller channel cats in there? Like in the 5-10lb range? The only cats I hear about out of Aurora are the monsters that you catch :)

Thanks,

Jeff

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/21/2012 3:27:46 PM     Points: 4654    

chatfisher
The color could be many things but I think it's because of the depth of the lake. They may spend most of there life in deep water?
Then again some think And some times I do too, they live year round in shallow water there and get sunburnt Living in the weeds . Dont know for sure but they sure are pretty.



No small cats.
They all get eaten up by the wipers and eyes.
They used to just release them at the boat ramp and you could see the oil spill of baby cats get decimated. Last year they were releasing them in one of the coves. I hope they do it again that way this year. If they want cats in the future they need to release them in many locations and larger then 3 inches in very high numbers. I would like to see 15000 at 8 inches or more released. But what do I know about it? LOL
It is a lake known for cats but not people catching them. The only one I know of for 2011 was the one I caught at 18.5# and I ask most of the Rangers also if anyone else caught one.That should tell you the population is low. I sight fish for them and the only ones I ever see are large cats. Cats will spawn at 3 yrs or so and they would be at 18 inches or more I have never seen any small cats with the other spawners.
They have not done a lake survey sense 2008 , I think that they are doing one this year. I hope they realize there is a shortage.
Did that answer your question? I hope so.

The up side to this is. If you catch one it will be large.

 Reply by: mtnmn78      Posted: 6/22/2012 1:46:19 PM     Points: 0    

Thanks a ton for the info. I used to fish for channels and flatheads a lot in Nebraska but I haven't figured them out in Colorado yet.

 Reply by: pbs      Posted: 6/22/2012 3:31:42 PM     Points: 3334    

Just decided to get on here and catch up on things a little bit. WTG
Daris...congrats!

We all knew you'd do it again, didn't we?

Were you fishing alone again this time?

Roger and I are planning on getting out there Sat. morning early.....maybe
see you out there.

 Reply by: FISHRANGLER      Posted: 6/22/2012 4:00:03 PM     Points: 4654    

Hey PBS / Charlie good to see you on here hope to see you out there soon.