Huge Flathead Catfish Came Back for More 

I use circle hooks. Before making a comment about how I need to set a hook, please take some time to educate yourself on how they work if you are unfamiliar with them. Also, there are children who watch my channel. Please refrain from using profanity. Any rude or vulgar comments will be deleted and the person who made it will be blocked.

Who else had anxiety watching the rods in the back get big bites??

Honestly, you have one of the best channels on RU-vid. I never get tired of watching!

That flathead was a beauty! Nice catch. I always release the trophy fish as well.

Big fan of your channel. you are one of the people that inspired me to start recording when I go fishing, and I fish a lot !! keep reeling them in !!

You don't set the hook with a circle hook. Which it is what he is using, ya'll need to know what your talking about before commenting.

This dude is legit, how can you not like his videos.

That thing was a slob! This video was definitely "river certified"! Congratulations!

Awesome fishing.My outtings never that productive.Glad you practise catch and release.Sign of a true sportsman.Some of us eat what we catch.Thanks for posting.

And your catching huge catfish in a kayak. You are legit the man

Any one else notice that when he was holding the flathead there was a bite on his other pole?

Fantastic looking flathead. Great video. Thanks for not editing out the two you lost. It shows true to life fishing.

Broke my heart too till that beast came along awesome catch homie keep on jigging lol

GREAT GREAT video! Way better than network programming!! Thanks!

Lovewell reservoir in Jewel county Kansas has some monster flatheads. Small lake and easy to fish.

Losing good fish stinks, but your perseverance was well rewarded!!

Yeah, I'd say it turned into a fine afternoon. lol Congrats on the monster flathead!

I Live in Fl. but my family is from Powell Crossroads. My uncle's have taken me jug fishing near the damn. Love those catfish. Keep up the great videos.

Flattie like that are why ur back hurts lol!! Great fish man! 🐋🦄

That was 1 massive flat head!!! 🎣😎🐟

Another great vid Justin! If you keep making these vids I will keep supporting you.

I fish at the local Country Club golf course, "members only" but im not a member. One full moon night in July i snuck into the golf course and took 2 poles, and a tub of chicken liver, no lights, no sinkers, just a wad of liver and a number 6 size hook. As soon as my 1st poles got into the water, i seen huge catfish fins swimming around my liver like sharks!! And i hooked up instantly and got my line broke!!! 40lb mono, brand new. I retied and kept fishing, caught 3 huge channel cats, biggest one was 14lb. And one huge flathead, 44lbs. All released. I went back several times and never could get em to bite. U are absolutely rite about releasing the big fish. Ppl always catch a 50lber and take it home to clean it. The paylakes have cleaned out my stretch of The Ohio River that i fish. Used to be able to get on a couple 25 to 30lbers easliy. Now u can fish it all day and catch one 5lb blue. Theyre destroying the river.

Looks like a lot of fun!!!! Nice set up and nice job!

That was a awesome FLATHEAD for sure! I've only dreamed of catching one that size WOW!

Another monster flathead!!! Awesome video man!

Beautiful fish! Thanks for making and sharing!

That back left pole had a fish on it for a while too

I agree, let the big breeders go keep the smallest. That way the fun will never stop. Great video K. C.

I live up in Rochester, New York and I wish we had some decent catfish round here..

Wow, patience paid off! What a great fish! Congrats and thanks for the awesome video. What a beast indeed

Really Huge Catfish!

4 rods on a kayak holy moly you have nerves of steel dude I've caught a lot of flatheads out of the Maumee river, never tried it out of my kayak though. Looks fun

Great video! I know this aint ur first rodeo but reeling down and getting that rod loaded even more would most certainly help prevent missed hookups.

Had my 1st successful catfish trip using my kayak last night on Dale Hollow lake. I just subscribed.

Nice Flathead!! That pole bending and drag pullin..........Classic!!

Great video! I bet catching those big cats on a kayak is a blast. I've always been leery of the zero rig, especially with circle hooks. I feel like the weight right up against the hook could interfere with a proper hook set. Congratulations on those nice catches, especially that monster flattty! Looking forward to your next video!

Glad you released them. Good video

My heart broke for you when that fish let go! Heck of a fish man.

Not bad at all for a day on the water.Very nice flathead.Iknow what it is like to lose a big flathead.But thats part of fishing.thanks for sharing a great video. Mike

Nice fish Muchacho !

Patience was a virtue on this day!!!

How much do you think that absolute unit weighed? Im 13 and addicted to fishing, I ride my bike 2 Miles to my lake everyday to catch big carp and cats, it's a small pond, about half an acre. I caught a 50 lb blue cat the other day on 5lb test! You my sir, are my inspiration! Thank you so much!!! (Also, I love your accent)

Okay. I gotta learn to kayak catfish. I’m sold.

That is one huge flathead. Congrats on that catch. I hated to see you lose those other two. Nice blue cat too.

One of my favorites of your videos

nice catch, dude. The secret about fishing is in how you set your bait. Those fish that you lost were lost because you didn't set the bait on the hook properly. In theory, its not about being a master fisherman, instead its all about being a master baiter. 😎

So love the C&R. I grew up on the upper Mississippi. I was real young back in early 70's and would try to snag cats that were 5 to 6 feet long, they'd come up to sun themselves in the damn overflows and I never did catch one. I guess they were 200lb to 300lb fish. Met an oltimer years later and got to talking about them days. He said he and his buddies fished out the area sad enough. Used to use the winch on their trucks to get em out of the water.

From cussing to catching!👍

Keep those rods bent brother. Nice fish

Here in southern Ohio on the Ohio river and the creeks that run into it we call them shovel head.

Your laugh cracks me up lol but i definitely seen a lot of joy and that was one heck of a catch buddy. Congratulations on that monster man.

That one was bigger than the last one for sure.My favorite catfish out of them all.Their so ugly till their handsome.Kinda remind,s me of a lot of my friend,s mother in laws with that huge mouth.ha.ha.Their the one catfish that doesn't play by the rule,s when fishing live bait laying flat on the bottom.Many time,s even when using a circle hook they will swallow the bait down deep in their gullet before they even run.I caught a big flathead back in the seventies down deep in it,s gut and put it in a big metal stocktank I kept live bait in, and in a few day,s it died and when I gutted it I found the hook went through it,s gut lining into it,s vital organs.I believe if one is down in the gut its best just to cut the line and turn him loose and hope for the best.Many time,s you will catch a huge cat that is blind in one of it,s eye,s and most of that im sure if it was traced back to the cause,it was done as a juvenile by a hook going up and through the back of it,s eye before it was released.Last year I fished a spot that about a week before I watched a you tuber catch and release a 50 pound blue in front of a dam.When I went up behind the dam there was a bunch of log,s jammed up in a pile,and there was a big blue floating dead in among the log,s,and when I looked at it close I could see a green line down in it,s throat.Many time,s ive watched their videos and when it,s hooked in the corner of the mouth they will show it and say,it worked the way it was designed to right in the corner of the mouth,but then many time,s on a flathead that,s gut hooked they wont show that part so you wont know it was really in the gut.If I was solely fishing on bottom for flatheads to release I would use a j hook style and let them run a little then set the hook to help eliminate gut hooking. Hope your out on the water soon,and feeling better.

Your videos have taught me alot I also fish from a kayak and I've been doing the things I guess you could say you taught me lol my quantity of fish hasn't grew up the quality of my fish has id like to say thank you

The ones I catch I can't put my finger in the mouth

Beautiful fish. Great Job Justin!

Do you fish lakes? I'm wondering how well suspending & drifting would work on a good blue cat lake?

That sure is interesting watching you fish that hard in such a small setup!

What a surprise, you whined & gloated in the same video, that's never happened before cough, cough. However, when you are RU-vid's #1 Kayak Catfisherman you can do whatever the #&*^ you feel like doing. BTW, I watched this at the gym while rehabbing my knee on the exercise bike not that it matters.

Sitting here on my lunch hour watching RU-vid videos and came across your video and man that made my day!! great video man, great catch!!

Great fish Justin, I enjoy watching all your videos!

Imagine getting a big fish in all 4 rods at the same time 😂😂

Beautiful flatty Justin! They're maddening when they sit there with it like that, way to get it done!

Man, I miss going catfishing. Haven't been since I moved out of Alabama ten years ago. Used to go down to the Alabama river with some buddies and fish nights below the Claiborne Lock and Dam. Lots of nice cats caught out of that stretch of water. I've heard tales of 50+ pounders coming from there, but the biggest ones we ever pulled out were probably 20ish plus or minus a bit. Didn't have a scale back then, so mostly just guessing. Great way to spend the weekend, camping out on the river, slaying the bass by day and the cats by night.

Fantastic Flathead!! Congrats!!!

Great fish man I love watching all your videos and learning how to be a better fisherman

Congratulations. Really enjoyed watching.

Justin, another wonderful video. Nice monster cat.

I just discovered your channel and I love your filming style, and I gotta love fishing for cats!

Man ohhh man that was a good fish!

bro that's was a monster flathead!! nice blues too. great video!

Cool guy, cool setup. Have some fun man!

i have never someone so kinda of excited

I ever get back to East TN, we’ll have to head out fishing for a day.

The first three fish were good eating size which is perfect

Piece of advice that’s the best I’ve gotten for fishin, from a old timer if you could imagine that. When you think you lost the fish and didn’t hook, instead of immediately reeling in to see if you have any bait or recast, just give it a minute. If he spits it out, leave it sit, slowlyyyy reel in. Caught so many blues off this technique. It’s a bad habit to always reel in immediately after losing the fish, if you still have bait, he could come back or get another could bite. No use in reeling in quickly to throw it back out. Hope this helps I promise it will work 50% of the time!

Man that looks so fun!!! Good job Man! Great video!

Great role model and fisherman , you kids take notes!

Congrats on the flathead....my goodness I'm hooked on this channel.

What an awesome channel bub! Nothing like catfishing in a kayak/canoe! Congratulations!

Whoa! !. Congrats!! I think he was just following you around. Lol

Nice Flathead! Nice job. You deserve some luck. Ty.

Caught one a little smaller on the Ohio river few months back. Great video. Great fish.

725 dislikes? Keep up the great work Justin. My favorite channel.

I flipped my kayak in the wind a month or so ago. The idea of hauling in a fish that massive is terrifying. I would totally flip my kayak!

Here kitty kitty kitty... Nothing better then fishing all day thinking welp todays not my day then snagging a toad-a-saurus-rex... Amazing fish bud

Awesome to see six yrs later

Beautiful fish. love your setup

Saw the title and subscribed, already a cool channel and I don't even Catfish!

Hell of a job bubba!

Wow, that’s awesome. just when you think the day can’t get any worse, you go and do something like this. And totally redeem yourself! I’m gonna have to try to find out where the big cats in my area are.

Nice catch that was a huge flathead.

Man I hate to see you get so upset. You catch good ones and you loose good ones sometimes. Just say I just lost a good one and go on to the next one. I just want to pat you on the shoulder and say I'm sorry you lost a good one but pick your head up and catch another one 😁 😉 😊. You got this. It was fun watching you catch them fish. You had a good day after all. I enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you for sharing. Wish I could set up a fishing trip with you and my son Jesse Epperson. We are just country people down to earth loving people. See there you caught your biggest one this year. Happy for you. It's so good to hear you laugh 😃.

goodness that's a huge flathead!! nice dude!

Was cruising around your channel this morning and somehow I had missed this video. That is an impressive fish.

That's some great fishing you have there. We don't have anything like that in the UK. Nice to be just out on a kayak in such picturesque scenery. I wish they'd allow fishing like this on the reservoirs near me but everything is so dam restricted around here.

Great channel, thanks for sharing your experience's. Hope you keep lines tight.

Hope you have a relaxing & healthy Thanksgiving Really enjoy your videos

awesome flathead brother keep up with the videos. you have almost convinced me to try kayak catfishin here in kansas

Great fishing bro

Havent caught one in a while but ive had some buddies who have pulled in 70+ pounders on rod and reel recently. Always a crazy fight, especially from the bank.