Diddy Pole Cats In The Heat!
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2024
- As is Memorial Day weekend tradition, we hit our favorite stretch of river again to run diddy poles and pulled in 20 catfish! I had a host of friends in my boat over the weekend, including Andy, Curtis and my girlfriend, Nicole.
We chased big Iowa flathead catfish and channel catfish. We boated 20 cats in the scorching heat of the weekend and we also rescued a baby deer. This was our first diddy pole run of 2018. We did boat a nice flatty, caught lots of cats and had a great time on the river.
Music: Nest of Snakes
Album: Shed
Song: "Dark Star"
Glad to see the poles back out!! Love the Videos bud keep them coming!
Justin Polakowski Thank you! Man, we couldn't be happier to be back on the river. Got another fun video already filmed, just gotta edit and post it.
I would be keeping all legal fish. It keeps really good in freezer bags. Makes up for the times I get skunked. Life’s way of working things out.
I’m normally an anti diddy pole guy, but I enjoyed your video. Good job on the deer rescue too!
Thank you! We release a lot of our fish and practice selective harvest. All of our 20+ pounders go back. I give more credit to rod and reel myself. Running diddies is more of a "group activity" so we like it. Thanks for checking it out!
Ignore the whiners regarding the music! You did just fine with the music selection, the timing and the volume overlay was perfect in my headphones. I've heard plenty of crappy music played too loud in RUclips videos and this one is not one of them. I really enjoyed this compilation of line checks and wish we had similar weather and fish here in south central Oregon. We have pretty awesome offshore fishing but it's a big deal to hook up the boat and run down to the coast for the six fish limit. These days it's a much better deal to spend two hundred bucks on fish at Costco rather than on gas.
Thanks for the kind words! I liked the music in it myself too. But I am always trying to get better at editing. Man, it'd be a lot of fun to get out and be able to salt water fish on the regular too. What do you usually catch off the Oregon coast?
Reminded of running bank lines on the Missouri River near St. Joe in the 70’s and came across a fawn. The dogs had been at her legs. We brought her in and had a vet come down with some antibiotics but sadly she didn’t make it. Great videos.
That's a neat story! Thanks for sharing!
Do you still fish the Missouri River?
Great video. You guys sure put the work in and it looks like it paid off. Great job.
Mudder Ducker Adventures Thank you! It's a lot of work (fun work!) but a good time for sure.
River fishing for flatheads at night is so fun such an adventure
Indeed it is!
I got my lines out a couple timea this year already got a 35 1/2 flat and 33 both tagged. Its like Christmas morning as kid. Never know whats on the other end. Looking forward to that next vid.
Justin Polakowski Those are some great flats! And yea, good way to put it. When you see the pole bob, the heart starts racing.
Use steel leaders and a smaller heavy duty steel circle hook on the lines where hooks are missing for alligator snapping turtles. And for gar use nylon rope flayed out with a steel leader and hook and bait in the middle of the flayed out strands of nylon.
Wayne Carpenter The steel leader is a good idea for use on lines in that river. The hooks were all missing from generally the same area of the same river.
Which might suggest a resident Alligator Snapping Turtle. Probably the diameter of a wash tub. Just watch out for their aggressive NASTY temper! Ive caught them in the small lake behind my house, while jug lining. I had a live hand size bluegill on for bait.
Wayne Carpenter Oh no doubt. We've actually caught one or two while running lines. I'm serious about eating it if I catch one. Snapper is on my bucket list. That's not a bad idea about steel leaders. Then I can find out who the culprit is for sure. If it's gar, I'm taking my bow up in there to shoot a bunch.
gar can't cut through that rope. not even the big gator gar. they have conical teeth designed to grab and hold not cutting teeth
You guys should use a wire leader this year to see what is getting the hooks
That's a good idea. I'm curious as to what was getting those hooks.
You guys tore em up! Nice work!
High Prairie Sportsmen Thanks, we had a great time with it!
You need to make syome snapping turtle traps.... I use cattle panels for them....held together with zip ties and hog rings... Very easy to build. And you can catch more than one turtle.
Sounds like a good idea!
ran the south with a few buddys last weekend brang in 22 (3 flat, 19 channels) and 1 20+ snapper. It's a good one to run
That's a good haul! My boat has had a hard time finding flats lately
This look just like the wapsi where my father and i fish. I subbed to the fellow iowan. Love me some cat fishing. We catch and release to grow the monsters.
Thanks for watching! I am with ya on growing the monsters. Anything over 20 lbs goes back automatically. The bigger one we caught in this vid was hooked deep or we would have tossed it back too
Keep crankin' the tunes dudes..!
WILL DO!
Since ya aren’t checking them every 2-3 hours should add swivels so a fish on the line for a long time can spin and it won’t just be twisting your line
Interesting. I never thought of that. We have switched our diddy system over and all the lines now have drops with swivels
cant wait to get out here in wi next year very cool vid!!!
Thanks for checking it out! Do you get some big ones in Wisconsin?
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors oh yeah. The state record forvglats is 79 lbs it was caught right below my house. And channels I got some monsters both my daughters have caught them over 30 inches long.
@@rogercarlson2330 sounds like good catfish ground to me!
I'm an old Nebraska boy, but living in Arizona for decades now. Man....your vid was so much fun....it brought back memories like crazy! First thing I started doing though early on in the vid was literally start scratching myself all over....I'm not kidding! Oh, those bugs....I remember that so strongly. And ticks.....they love me. I never understood why God would invent a frickkin' tick. Huge tip of the hat to you all for taking great care of that baby deer....she was in some real trouble there. Just curious....not looking to steal your haunts there, but what part of the state were you guys in? Thanks and God Bless. Oh yeah....I subbed. See you again! jbeinarizona
I'm glad you liked it! Yea, those bugs can get really bad for sure and bug spray doesn't even seem to slow them. We get our share of ticks as well. It's turkey season right now and we're dodging them here.
We are in central Iowa. I've got a good handful of diddy pole vids and there will be some more this season. Thanks for joining!
That looks like a blast! I subscribed to ya! Keep it up!
Appalachia: On The Hunt It's such a great time! Thanks for the sub. I'll sub ya back. Keep hittin those smallmouth!
came across your channel from this video, getting ready to do this same exact thing on a 5 day trip. Hoping i can get onto some decent ones. it will be my first time with bank poles. Any pointers for a newby? (Subscribed) 🤘
I would be glad to give you pointers! What do you wanna know?
what are you finding is the best bait to use? Cut or live? Also i have 8foot bank poles with 8 foot of line, how much line are u running? Noticed you wrap some line up on the ends of your poles to shorten the line. I know every place is different but just curious at what depth you have the best luck? Much appreciated!
I hope that y’all have bought a dip net since this show.
I have a dip net. Just don't really use it diddy poles.
awesome video as always
Shawn Deweese Thanks for watching!!
The Iowa Plainsman Outdoors i always love watching youtubers who fish for catfish in iowa
I can appreciate the amount of editing required here. Good catches and great adventure. I do wonder if it isn't someone cutting your hooks.
Thanks! Each fishing video is usually a 6-10 hour project. It could be a line-cutter but do have some jaws swimming in that river too.
Beaver will cut line sometimes ,when they see it bouncing around all night
Please cut music when talking. It is irritating! Otherwise great video.
Carl Flippin Thanks for the input. I'm still working on my editing skills.
I love some pole fishing
We love it too! The rivers have been awful low lately but hopefully we'll be running lines again soon!
I understand that
We have been getting some rain
But not nearly as much as I would like to do some “swamp running in the grass “
@@tsr_outdoors We are recovering from 2 years of bad drought. The rivers are BETTER this year but not ideal yet
Well I hope you get plenty of rain soon
@@tsr_outdoors Same here! Supposed to get some tonight!
Nice haul!
Thanks!!
Can’t hear you over the music
I'll fix the volume in future videos.
the one that hook got taken..might been turtle..should of put a metal leader on it to find out
Yea, it had to have been a turtle or gar. Whatever it was had some nasty hooks in its craw afterwards
Can you tell me how you make your poles. And tell.me how deep you put them in the dirt.
I have a buddy make mine now - his poles are Muddy River Poles. However, we used to just get some 3/4 in pvc, cut to 8 ft. Put an eye bolt in the top wiith about 15 feet of tarred braid on the end. Usually use an 8/0 - 10/0 hook. Would often pound em in with a mallet a couple feet
What size line are you using? #36? #48? #72? Maybe try upsizing or use some wire, those hooks are what $1-$2 ea.? Losing that many hooks would irritate the crap out of me lol.
I don't remember the line strength we used but yea, the hooks ain't cheap. A wire leader and a bit smaller hook may be the key.
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors I'm used to saltwater fish having a mouthful of razor blades, but not North American freshwater except for Gar, Musky, and big Pike. I once caught 40 snapping turtles on one of rhose pre-made Wal-Mart trotlines over the course of maybe a week, a couple weighed >40lbs, none of them broke hooks or or cut them off. The drops were standard #18 white twisted nylon, doubled. Maybe your knots are pulling out? What knot are you thing your hooks on with? Maybe try snelling them, or a uni-knot or a Palomar knot? Maybe Alligator Gar are,making a comeback or >100lb Alligator Snapping Turtles are taking them? I'm curious because I don't want it happening to me.
@@dallasmore6703 We use the uni knot. Those Wal-Mart trots will give a guy fits. I have one and have been switching to making all my own drops for it. The line frays pretty bad on em. We actually only ever got bit off on this one trip. It wasn't a recurring issue. My guess is that gar teeth got snarled up in the and it eventually cut loose from it. We have also had a turtle or 2 on our diddies that didn't break off but we don't see turtles wind up on our line much
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors Yeah they will! Lol! Those pre-made trotlines are junk. I used them when I was a kid a couple times. I'm planning to go trotlining and jug fishing soon so I built some lines. First time since about 1979! My stepdad used to trotline fish as did my Grandfather on the Ohio River between Cave-In-Rock IL and the old lock & dam 52 at Golconda IL. Both of them used old wooden coke-a-cola boxes to hold their lines. They'd cut notches in the top edge of the boxes about 3/4" - 1" apart. They'd load in a weight, usually an old curtain weight or a piece of steel 3-8 lbs or so, the lay the line in, as they came to a hook they'd bait it and hang it in the notches they'd cut in the box, and repeat. A single coke box would hold about 50 hooks. After the last hook they'd load in another weight at the end. To set it they'd place the baited line box on the back of the boat, then tie off 30' or so of line to a tree or a snag, start the boat and take off slow, the baited line would pay out of the box, as you can to a corner you'd turn the box, when you came to the end you'd hold the weight, attach a jug as a marker, stretch the line tight and drop it. I remember setting up to 12 boxes with 50 hooks each and catching several hundred lbs of catfish in a weekend. They didn't really target flatheads, didn't use live bait, they used pretty much anything they could get their hands on, cut shad, skipjacks, dough balls, cheese, crawdads, grasshoppers, even chunks of ivory soap. My grandfather made a homemade doughball bait out of cotton balls, white bread, cheese scraps, canned sardines, vanilla extract, garlic, asefedida, fennel, etc... I never could get the exact recipe out of him. Anyhow, good luck with your fishing.
@@dallasmore6703 I'm pretty new to trots, relatively speaking but I can see how a person could pile up the cats in the right spot. In Iowa, we have pretty restrictive regulations on diddy poles and trots - only 5 sets with a TOTAL of 15 hooks (for interior rivers, at least.) I love big flathead as much as the next guy but I'll also never knock a good mess of 2-4 lb eater channels.
You guys on the Wapsi?
No sir. Would like to fish the Wapsi some time. I heard years ago that it was pretty good for walleye.
You usually wait til lthe moring to run the poles?
Wait bait were you guys catching them on?
I can't remember in this particular video but bullhead are our favorite.
I use steel leader to prevent turtles and gar from cutting me off
That's probably a wise idea
never heard them called diddy poles before, always just called em bank poles
EDIT: thanks for the pin, love your videos man, keep it up
Glad you're digging the videos! I think the name of the poles is maybe a regional thing?
You still doing your thing? Lets get rolling again with da bankpoles.
I sure am! I usually put out a couple diddy pole vids each year but wanna do more. The drought threw a wrench in some things for our usual spots but we're finding new ones. How bout you?
@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors same here....covid then droughts lol. They rebuilding the bridge by one of my favorite holes so it's been hard to get down there because it's fenced off now. Gotta walk a ways to get to my holes. But I'm getting rolling again. Checking in on everyone, I'm looking to do some collaboration stuff this year if ur interested. Have some bankpole fun 😂
@@bankpolefever Do you think them rebuilding the bridge will make the fishing better? And yes, the droughts were awful but we are making do and Im hoping for rain this year. I wouldnt mind trying collabs some time. Just depends on scheduling and stuff. Whereabouts are you located again?
@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors missouri, but I'm down to travel. I'm hoping. They built-up a few more wing dikes. But yes being that you can't just drive down there anymore. I think less people have been fishing it. Once my videos got rolling alot folks found the hole. So I had competition but now u have to be willing to walk a mile and half to get to it or by boat
@@bankpolefever Those spots that other people dont wanna get to are the best. If you're on Facebook, find Deeply Driven there and we can DM about any future collab plans. We would also be willing to travel possibly
would have normally said run wire leaders but if thems is snappers taking y'all's bait,no wire leaders will stop that lol.those damn turtles are weapons grade.biological bolt cutters.
Very, if it was turtles. It may have been gar but I dunno if I'll ever know
cheap none braided line. pay the extra for good braided line you'll see the difference. hooks are expensive ..
unless you use metal cable, snapping turtles WILL get you...not the line's fault
We use Catahoula tarred braid now
Never through a flathead back. Keep em eat em. Get rid of them they eat all the redbreast. That is what we do on the Ocmulgee in GA they are not native to our area.
What the heck is a redbreast?
Redbreast is a kind of sunfish I think.
What river u guys on
A river in central Iowa
Use a wire line connected to the hook
Not a bad idea!
You have the “fishy fish”
All the "fishy fish!"
The fishy fish is the fish that steals the bait
@@snaggin_cats Good to know!
How long do y'all make them poles
About 8 ft
I'm betting you were tying a bad knot and it was slipping out. Much more likely than gar or turtle
Those tributaries are loaded with gar and the end of the line was frayed. I mean, it's possible the knot slipped but I dunno how the line wound up frayed
What part of Iowa are you in
Southern
You guys caught 20 in a weekend me and buddy went over night and caught 30
Cool
We can only legally have 5 poles per person so that limits how many we get for sure. Some states allow alot more poles and hooks
One night I caught 50 by myself with my bare hands
@@alabasterfigueroa4431 I caught 75 in one night with just my teeth
Using steel hook not good in my mind. If game get away it may die due to hook won't dissolve.
What kind of hook do you use?
I thought goldfish were illegal bait in iowa
According to the DNR website, they are legal.
Why don't you use swivels?
Our new ones have them, so we can switch out drops. Check out my 2019 vids and you'll see swivels on our poles.
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors ok, 10-4. I was curious about that. I'll check out your channel. This came up in an auto play list... nice content.
@@CenturyofTerror Thanks for checking it out! Hope you enjoy the content. I'll be running diddies again here in the next month or so probably and have some fresh content out!
which river you on?
Hooidonksebeek
One of the Iowa ones!
Love the action. I've caught some big ones but, not high numbers like this. If you get time check em out. Here's my sub
Thanks for checking out the videos! I'm posting a GOOD one from this last weekend here soon so keep an eye on my channel. I'll go check your vids!
I have cornmeal, cooking oil, and a skillet at my house. Stop throwing away good fish
We kept all that we could eat. That 17 pounder fed us on 3 separate occasions. We just practice selective harvest so we can catch more in the future.
"throwing away"??
who is band playin
Nest Of Snakes
thanx
@@raylee7654 no problem!
music is tooo loud. Can't hear you talking.
Oops. I got my music levels dialed in better these days
Douse the music or turn it down. Please.
I got better lately about my music volume levels
Great v id! How many did you keep?
Freelance Duck Hunting Thanks. I think we kept 10 total through the weekend, so about half which is a little more than usual.
Wire leader
Might have to give that a shot
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors ya them turtles suck lol
@@soldierboy_4349 Indeed they do. They're on my bucket list to eat one of these days.
I moved up to that area back in 93 from Louisiana and all I can say is that you do not have the big fish and your laws SUCK! Besides that most of you do not know much about catching fish... Sorry. You do have the Deer tho. Fantastic...
I'll give you that our laws suck. No jug fishing, no noodling, only 5 diddies per person, no limb lines. This video was a light weekend fish-wise. Check out a few of my other vids. We boat some that are a lot bigger.
As a "hunter" you should know that you didn't save the fawn....it was not in danger, the only thing you did was "stress" the fawn, reducing it's chance of survival.
I have bow-hunted for 40 years....in learning to "respect" the game you hunt/fish you learn that all wildlife do better without our intervention.
So, the fawn had just been hanging out on the steep riverbank for 18 hours (we had heard it the night before) because it wanted to and it could have gotten back up the bank just fine on its own?
I am sure the rescue stressed the fawn out but we figured it was better than leaving it to certain death from thirst or starvation.
This situation shouldn't be confused with stumbling across a fawn on a nature hike, believing it to be in distress and trying to "rescue" it. The fawn was genuinely trapped
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors I sincerely apologise...I jumped to conclusions without all the facts. I should know better at my age...
@@markbuckallew4689 No problem. It happens to the best of us.
Music is annoying
OK
@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors Outside of that great video
Someone cutting y'all's lines
I have wondered about that