Ultralight Challenge!

[MRUTVOL]

I went to Kentucky Lake yesterday with a couple friends. We were fishing for bluegill and shellcrakers with crickets using ultralight gear. I had a 4 ft 8 inch rod with 6 pound line and using a number 4 gold wire hook. I landed my second largest fish on ultralight gear. I caught 2 catfish with the biggest weighing 14 lbs and the other 9 lbs. Took me almost 30 mins to land . We also caught almost 100 big bluegills and shellcrackers.

 

[RUGER]

Now THAT looks like it was fun !

 

[Rowdy]

Thats cool!!!

 

[spitndrum]

Sweet!

 

[SwampDuck]

cool

 

[Bone Collector]

Awesome!

 

[bullzeye]

 

[easy45]

awesome

 

[Bertman]

 

[stik]

99.9% of my fishing is with a 5 ft. UL with 4 lb line. i have landed hybrids up to 21 lbs., several 20+ lb catfish, many large carp(fishing for carp is how i learned how to handle big fish on light tackle).

 

[JohnnyDollar]

cool

 

[44fanatic]

I always seem to put down my bass rods and go to my ultralight rod. Always enjoyable to catch fish on the light tackle.

Musta been fun trying to bring in a 14lb fish...envy ya for that.

 

[mathews338]

congrats

 

[rem270]

 

[MRUTVOL]

99.9% of my fishing is with a 5 ft. UL with 4 lb line. i have landed hybrids up to 21 lbs., several 20+ lb catfish, many large carp(fishing for carp is how i learned how to handle big fish on light tackle).

I tried the 4 lbs test line for a while but it was just to hard on the nerves! :crazy: Like fishing with sewing thread. If you have deep water with no obstructions to speak of then you can kind of just float with the fish but with 4 lbs line there is very little room for error. I went to 6 lb years ago simply because I was losing to many good fish with the 4 lb. Heck I had some big bull bluegills and shellcrackers break my line. I will say I do admire anybody who can land 20lbs plus fish on it for sure. My nerves would be shot!

 

[megalomaniac]

Great job on the cats!

Oh, and I like your shirt

 

[Umpire]

nice

 

[LA man]

congrats, ultralight is the way to fish

 

[bowriter]

Try this on 4# test.

 

[BIGORANGE]