High water a boon for catfish:
Bad for people, the flooding is excellent for the omnivorous catfish, giving them newly inundated areas in the willows and cottonwoods to prowl for minnows, crawdads, crickets and even — for the bigger ones — snakes, turtles and muskrats. Jim Dockery, a retired math teacher, is a commercial fisherman six months out of the year in Clarksville, Mo. "Not very many people are happy to see a flood, and I'm certainly not going to say I'm happy to see one, but it makes great fishing," Dockery said. ~ Whole Article
Bad for people, the flooding is excellent for the omnivorous catfish, giving them newly inundated areas in the willows and cottonwoods to prowl for minnows, crawdads, crickets and even — for the bigger ones — snakes, turtles and muskrats. Jim Dockery, a retired math teacher, is a commercial fisherman six months out of the year in Clarksville, Mo. "Not very many people are happy to see a flood, and I'm certainly not going to say I'm happy to see one, but it makes great fishing," Dockery said. ~ Whole Article
Good for Jim! Are you kidding? Crawdads, crickets, snakes and turtles? I'm moving! (Better bring my boat.)
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