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Sep 19, 2021 02:34:14   #
keithalan Loc: Helena Montana
 
Hi everyone, I'm new here and live in Helena Montana. I love catfish fishing but we don't have catfish here in or around Helena so I thought I would go looking. Some say they caught cats at Great Falls but had no luck. I drove a bit further to Fort Benton MT. I got there well after dark, was parked at a boat launch, and thought I'd take a nap. I'm no more dozing off and woke up all I could think to do is get started. I got all set up threw mi line out sat down and texted my wife and told her I was fishing instead of sleeping. And Bam I got my first bit ill put a pic below ended up with three of these forgot the last pic though. went to Loma the next day no luck. went back to Fort Benton.
Love that place.
Just I only had these fish out of the water long enough for pics then returned em back to the river. I have a policy, I won't keep Catfish 5 lbs or bigger. It's just me I don't care if others keep em. These are producers and I like returning them because Montana doesn't stock catfish in central or western Montana so we gotta do what we can to keep'em in our rivers.





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Sep 19, 2021 02:46:19   #
Jeremy Loc: America
 
keithalan wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm new here and live in Helena Montana. I love catfish fishing but we don't have catfish here in or around Helena so I thought I would go looking. Some say they caught cats at Great Falls but had no luck. I drove a bit further to Fort Benton MT. I got there well after dark, was parked at a boat launch, and thought I'd take a nap. I'm no more dozing off and woke up all I could think to do is get started. I got all set up threw mi line out sat down and texted my wife and told her I was fishing instead of sleeping. And Bam I got my first bit ill put a pic below ended up with three of these forgot the last pic though. went to Loma the next day no luck. went back to Fort Benton.
Love that place.
Hi everyone, I'm new here and live in Helena Monta... (show quote)



Awesome. One of my favorites is large Cats. Skin is like leather but you have some excellent eating. Thanks for Sharing Welcome to the Stage.

There is some real good cool guys in Montana. I will be in Montana in 2022 for sure. Will be near Clark Canyon. Armstead / Dillon and Probably Helena for sure.

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Sep 19, 2021 02:50:12   #
keithalan Loc: Helena Montana
 
Hey Jeremy thanks.

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Sep 19, 2021 03:43:32   #
bknecht Loc: Northeast pa
 
Welcome Keith, those are some nice cats. That second one is a fattie.

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Sep 19, 2021 07:53:22   #
flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
 
keithalan wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm new here and live in Helena Montana. I love catfish fishing but we don't have catfish here in or around Helena so I thought I would go looking. Some say they caught cats at Great Falls but had no luck. I drove a bit further to Fort Benton MT. I got there well after dark, was parked at a boat launch, and thought I'd take a nap. I'm no more dozing off and woke up all I could think to do is get started. I got all set up threw mi line out sat down and texted my wife and told her I was fishing instead of sleeping. And Bam I got my first bit ill put a pic below ended up with three of these forgot the last pic though. went to Loma the next day no luck. went back to Fort Benton.
Love that place.
Just I only had these fish out of the water long enough for pics then returned em back to the river. I have a policy, I won't keep Catfish 5 lbs or bigger. It's just me I don't care if others keep em. These are producers and I like returning them because Montana doesn't stock catfish in central or western Montana so we gotta do what we can to keep'em in our rivers.
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Good mornin', keithalan, welcome to the Forum, You evidently didn't forget how to fish.

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Sep 19, 2021 08:02:58   #
keithalan Loc: Helena Montana
 
ha ha no i didn't, it came back pretty quick. Great time.

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Sep 20, 2021 16:30:22   #
Dambass Loc: Glendora California
 
Keithalan, welcome to the stage and yes you certainly did not forget out to fish! Great job!
DB

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Sep 22, 2021 17:52:23   #
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