Have you ever bank fished on the campground side of the Melton hill dam? I went to big fish outfitters to buy me a new sealine the other day and rode to the dam to just look. Looked like an easy access spot I might go to a couple hours next time I made the trip to the tackle store.
I certainly appreciate you sharing your knowledge with the community. You are one fishing fool! Please keep doing the bait videos. Like many of us, I struggle to catch bait so anything store bought that works is my best friend. Now that you have a boat it would be awesome to see how and why you pick the spots to fish. Keep up the cool content!
Dave I really enjoyed this upload for some reason! Dave could it have been that I really didn't think you could catch fresh skipjack at night?🤔 Listen! Dave you made a believer out of me! Thanks for sharing!👍
I love watching someone catch big fish for sport and release i know catfish are good to eat but im a firm believer on letting all big fish keep growing
I really enjoy all of your videos Dave. I noticed in this video that you still do not have your other rod holder available. I have the ability for welding and fabrication and would love to help you out if any way possible to make sure you have 4 rods in the water and not just to. Just let me know.
Hey Catfish Dave... Might be a good thing you're working a day job.. (cause the singing ain't gonna feed you ) (lol) Keep up the great fishing, I'm learning more each time I watch you.. And I'm 68 years old , been fishing on the Ohio River most of my life. You've done made me change some of my fishing habits
Yo! Dave you need to do a video the 3 perfect bait! For big cats. Catfish for bait chicken for bait and skipjack for bait!!!! Use it the same day on 3 different rods 🤘😮🤘🎣🎣🎣 love you brother!!!
Catfish Hero I don't think Dave will use knight crawlers I know what he will say! Knight crawlers only get you Chanel cats! 😂 🤘 on all the videos from catfish Dave that I see I never saw him using knight crawlers will be nice if he does use it!!! 🤘😮🤘
Sore lippin skipjack... High entertainment right there. I feel like you are a brother from a different mother, Dave. Maybe I'll come and fish in Knoxville someday.
Catfish Dave I've been following your channel for a while now I have finally decided to be a subscriber and follow you. The only problem I have with subscribing to your channel is I wish I would have done it sooner you look like you have a lot of fun I really enjoy watching you catch them big catfish and I look forward to some more videos in the future. God bless you catfish Dave and from the Midlands of South Carolina we will be watching
I'm trying to remember if I ever caught a catfish in Melton Hill. I can't remember it. Caught 2 Northern pike at Bull Run steam plant one day when it was cold out. Caught a few nice walleye there that day, too. That was back when you could still fish there from the bank… 😕 I'm starting to like bluegrass even more than I did.
Hey Dave, happy to see you back on the water again. With all the catfish you catch do you keep and cook any? Hoped you would have a real good recipe for frying them. Thanks for the memories. Your take of Blue Berry Hill.
Dave, You taught me how to catfish. Now I'm teaching my boys how too. Thanks for all the advice it sure was nice. I have a question. Where is a good area to fish for cats and skip jack going east of knoxville? I'm planning a trip for the boys and I. The military life has me have to put a location I'm going to but it's like dropping a nail in the ocean. Any tips? Thanks for all the great content
If your wanting numbers of cats east of Knoxville Cherokee and Douglas lake you can get on funsize for your boys. there are also big ones out there of course. Just Not like The Tennessee river impoundments. Good luck thanks for your service
Reuben on the banjer. Dont get no better except it isnt Earl Scruggs playin it. Thanks for taking me fishin Dave. Im up north and its too durn cold to fish now.
Cat fish Dave , when I was younger I always released my catfish when I caught them ;so I was wondering when a location seems to get less and less fish do you think it because people are taking them home or some other reason?
Yes, he does not look like he has been collecting the old age pension for the last 20 years, so if he wins I won't be so concerned as I am with the current geriatric's
Since you hate channel cats so much you oughta keep them and eat em that way there won’t be so many. I kill bullheads in my area because they’ll grossly overpopulate the ponds around here and they eat so many clams and baitfish they’ll starve the blue cats and channel cats.
I wonder if J hooks are better for flathead, due to their mouth structure. Ive caught a lot of flathead on J hooks with leeches as bait. Lots of 30 lbers at a place called Piedmont Lake here in Ohio. Big J hook with 3 leeches
When I fish at night I lower down a real bright green light and it draws so much bait sometimes fish finder reads them as the bottom of the lake. Do you think the light scares away the kitties?
It’s rare to see old Dave lose a catfish. I’ve never saw him lose two. Makes me feel a little better about missing them. He’s the damn Paterfamilias of cat fishing on You Tube. Give em hell Dave
Will you ever have a hunting with Catfish Dave show? You wearing some camo makes me think you hunt some. Of course my center console is camo so people assume I duck hunt. They taste terrible, I don’t duck hunt.
You the man Dave but that vest looks like it used to be white until the animals started using the bathroom on it! Haha! But what do I know? I voted for trump. Haha! Have a good one
We all must love catfish. I'd rather catch my own than pay a restaurant. We do need to maintain a healthy population by keeping them in check. I do return the large cats for the population to grow.
There's a dog on the shore saying "dadblasted human out there howling like a big dawg and singing the same 7 words over and over dadblast it!"
We know Dave will face the chill, to have his thrill, on Melton Hill! thanks again Dave!
Always fun to watch singer, songwriter, Catfish Dave!
Love it when those banjos play. Enjoyed.
Thanks for another one Dave!
I can’t stop watching this guy
my husband mr. catfish mike from nebraska told me to tell you flathead catfish dont bite on chicken. good luck with your fishing. he loves your videos
A flathead that would hit a piece of chicken is a flathead that has something wrong with it and it's starving. 😉
Tell your husdand he is rong.
Have you ever bank fished on the campground side of the Melton hill dam? I went to big fish outfitters to buy me a new sealine the other day and rode to the dam to just look. Looked like an easy access spot I might go to a couple hours next time I made the trip to the tackle store.
I certainly appreciate you sharing your knowledge with the community. You are one fishing fool! Please keep doing the bait videos. Like many of us, I struggle to catch bait so anything store bought that works is my best friend.
Now that you have a boat it would be awesome to see how and why you pick the spots to fish.
Keep up the cool content!
Keep fishing David great job nick enjoy your video
I want to see a blooper video!! Who else agrees!!!
Little Debbie smiling on Dave in this video...shine on...💜🤴
Some nice fish you caught there dave. It always sucks losing a big fish, but losing the same one twice just makes a man wanna cry
Great to watch your fishing videos. Hope one day to see you on the lake. Glad you found your thrill on Milton Hill.
Dave I really enjoyed this upload for some reason! Dave could it have been that I really didn't think you could catch fresh skipjack at night?🤔 Listen! Dave you made a believer out of me! Thanks for sharing!👍
Keep it up!wish u didn’t have to work so I could watch these all the time! You don’t know until u quit your job to throw 😂🙏👋
I appreciate your knowledge brother Dave
Definitely a busy nite on the water! 👍🎣
I love watching someone catch big fish for sport and release i know catfish are good to eat but im a firm believer on letting all big fish keep growing
you guys are extremely lucky to have skip jack. these shad here in texhoma can only be caught in a net and they sling off the hook they are so soft.
Great show 👍
Great video! Very interesting bait catching and big cats!
Skip jacks, blue cats, and flats...oh mmmyyyy!!!!!
I would have loved to see you using one of those small skip jack live for a flathead.
I really enjoy all of your videos Dave. I noticed in this video that you still do not have your other rod holder available. I have the ability for welding and fabrication and would love to help you out if any way possible to make sure you have 4 rods in the water and not just to. Just let me know.
Heading out there Sunday. Hope to see you in the area
Hey Catfish Dave... Might be a good thing you're working a day job.. (cause the singing ain't gonna feed you ) (lol)
Keep up the great fishing, I'm learning more each time I watch you.. And I'm 68 years old , been fishing on the Ohio River most of my life. You've done made me change some of my fishing habits
Great video
Love it classic Dave way to go
Great video keep um coming 👍
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Amazing Content!!!
Yo! Dave you need to do a video the 3 perfect bait! For big cats. Catfish for bait chicken for bait and skipjack for bait!!!! Use it the same day on 3 different rods 🤘😮🤘🎣🎣🎣 love you brother!!!
You forgot to mention the night crawler
Catfish Hero I don't think Dave will use knight crawlers I know what he will say! Knight crawlers only get you Chanel cats! 😂 🤘 on all the videos from catfish Dave that I see I never saw him using knight crawlers will be nice if he does use it!!! 🤘😮🤘
Dave!!! Use some knight crawlers!! People are asking for it!! 🤘😮🤘
Nice video Dave
Nice video Dave. Looks like you need to fish Melton Hill a little more often, because you never know until you throw!🎣🎣🎣
Why abandon the chicken breast completely? Just curious. Thanks for another great video Dave.
For a lake not known for it’s catfish you kicked ass!
Outstanding!
CD you have a good locations in your area to fish I’d like to have the ability to have the deferent place’s great job nice fish 👍
Sing along with Dave. Great video.
Take us out one Time Dave here at home only channel cats very small we would love to come ur a one of a kind friend.
Pretty good fish man. Congrats.
Sore lippin skipjack... High entertainment right there. I feel like you are a brother from a different mother, Dave. Maybe I'll come and fish in Knoxville someday.
This is a great video Dave I’m glad to hear the blue grass music again really love it and watching you, it don’t rhyme but it was just in time.
Catfish Dave I've been following your channel for a while now I have finally decided to be a subscriber and follow you. The only problem I have with subscribing to your channel is I wish I would have done it sooner you look like you have a lot of fun I really enjoy watching you catch them big catfish and I look forward to some more videos in the future. God bless you catfish Dave and from the Midlands of South Carolina we will be watching
Awesome video Dave!!!
they say sometimes if ur out fishin at night and it quiet u can hear catfish dave catchin fish...whooo!
Great show as usual. Thanks Dave.
How do you find so many nice size blues,on the bank or on the boat.
I'm trying to remember if I ever caught a catfish in Melton Hill. I can't remember it. Caught 2 Northern pike at Bull Run steam plant one day when it was cold out. Caught a few nice walleye there that day, too. That was back when you could still fish there from the bank… 😕
I'm starting to like bluegrass even more than I did.
Another classic video. Nice vest. Hate that flathead got away, we gonna say it was 50lbs.
Hey Dave, happy to see you back on the water again. With all the catfish you catch do you keep and cook any? Hoped you would have a real good recipe for frying them. Thanks for the memories. Your take of Blue Berry Hill.
Boo catch and realese only
Tennessee River Valley Authority has warnings out about contaminants in the catfish from all waters. Not recommended for human consumption.
Cat fish Dave you should try little Debbie's for cat fish bait!
Great Video Catfish Dave
TVA, sorry to hear about the warning. Hopefully, we can clean up all waters soon.
Dave,
You taught me how to catfish. Now I'm teaching my boys how too. Thanks for all the advice it sure was nice. I have a question. Where is a good area to fish for cats and skip jack going east of knoxville? I'm planning a trip for the boys and I. The military life has me have to put a location I'm going to but it's like dropping a nail in the ocean. Any tips? Thanks for all the great content
Thank you very much for your military service and good luck fishing with your boys!!!!
East of Knoxville isn’t really known for catfish.
If your wanting numbers of cats east of Knoxville Cherokee and Douglas lake you can get on funsize for your boys. there are also big ones out there of course. Just Not like The Tennessee river impoundments. Good luck thanks for your service
Great vid👍🏿
Awesome video brother!
Nice night of fishing
Nice
Reuben on the banjer. Dont get no better except it isnt Earl Scruggs playin it. Thanks for taking me fishin Dave. Im up north and its too durn cold to fish now.
Awesome
Dave do you ever use live skipjack..Really wish you could've caught that big flathead
Cat fish Dave , when I was younger I always released my catfish when I caught them ;so I was wondering when a location seems to get less and less fish do you think it because people are taking them home or some other reason?
Those fish hungry for that chicken right now but they get bored fast dave.. gotta keep adapting
Dave: I used to use chicken for bait, but I’m going back to skipjack.
Chicken: WTF, thought we were pals
Skipjack: here, hold my beer
Shoot suspend a live one right off the bottom under all the skipjacks feeding and catch you a good un
Let’s go big Dave
Listen, if Kanye can get his crazy ass on a ballot, I can confidently proclaim: Catfish Dave 2024.
Yes, he does not look like he has been collecting the old age pension for the last 20 years, so if he wins I won't be so concerned as I am with the current geriatric's
I've never caught a Dieter or a Kanye.
Nice video!! Dave, have you tried taking one of those smaller skipjacks and using him live?
Since you hate channel cats so much you oughta keep them and eat em that way there won’t be so many. I kill bullheads in my area because they’ll grossly overpopulate the ponds around here and they eat so many clams and baitfish they’ll starve the blue cats and channel cats.
Dave, nice flathead. Great video. When we going to see you pick that new guitar?
I caught a blue cat today on kool aid chicken lol. First one ever! I’ve only ever caught channel cats on it until today.
I wonder if J hooks are better for flathead, due to their mouth structure. Ive caught a lot of flathead on J hooks with leeches as bait. Lots of 30 lbers at a place called Piedmont Lake here in Ohio. Big J hook with 3 leeches
I've caught skipjack at fort Loudon damn on the river side at night under the street light of the damn
You should leave a link or a name of the band that plays that banjo music I really like it they would probably like to have people buying their music
When I fish at night I lower down a real bright green light and it draws so much bait sometimes fish finder reads them as the bottom of the lake. Do you think the light scares away the kitties?
good trip
By the way kool bk ground music 🎶
You and those dang snacks 😂😂😂😂
Great video Mr Dave, always great to watch you reel in them big cays. Hey what kind of rod is the one you cought the last blue on? Thanks.
You ARE the Catfish Warrior Poet!
Catfish Dave is naturally funny..
Forgive me for sayin' so, but what big cat turns down fresh noggin?
It's been a while since I heard your clicker run!! Nice👍
Edit: it would be cool to see you live line a small skip for a flathead or something.
How do you know when the current will be stopped. An app? Ya know somebody? How? Thanks.
I have TVA app that tells me water release schedule for all the dams in Tennessee.
@@catfishdave8192 Wish we could check gates and flow before we go. That would be nice to know! Thanks tho!
Ive caught huge ones on melton hill
21:00 sounded like Bobby Blue (Cat) Bland rather than Fats Domino. Woooooooo!
It’s rare to see old Dave lose a catfish. I’ve never saw him lose two. Makes me feel a little better about missing them. He’s the damn Paterfamilias of cat fishing on You Tube. Give em hell Dave
good video
Will you ever have a hunting with Catfish Dave show? You wearing some camo makes me think you hunt some. Of course my center console is camo so people assume I duck hunt. They taste terrible, I don’t duck hunt.
Why don’t you use the smaller ones as live bait?
Was thinking maybe the cougar was with you
Nice fish, you are CATFISH DAVE!
👍👍
You the man Dave but that vest looks like it used to be white until the animals started using the bathroom on it! Haha! But what do I know? I voted for trump. Haha! Have a good one
Dieter melhorn said to tell you hello and you need a few more rods LOL take care dude
We all must love catfish. I'd rather catch my own than pay a restaurant. We do need to maintain a healthy population by keeping them in check. I do return the large cats for the population to grow.
Why no chicken bait? Wrong time of year? Or just going old school? Didn't want to spend money on chicken? Curious minds want to know.
Hey catfish Dave I want to see you bring the guitar back 😁😁
No Chicken ?