Big catfish want to be seduced easily

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Catfish over 100 kilos are smart and have gained a lot of experience in their lives. Most of the time, they know exactly what the anglers do and leave heavily fished river areas. Stefan Seuß recognized years ago how the giants tick and meticulously adapted his assemblies to the targeted big catfish fishery. Even when choosing a place, Stefan Seuss leaves nothing to chance and tries to lay his bait where no other angler would sit down. Steep slopes, rock fillings, inaccessible banks of clay and very obstacle-rich river passages are exactly the places that the test angler and fishing guide look for to meet big fish.

For years, Stefan has been trying to be very precise when it comes to his choice of installation and so offer his bait very inconspicuously and true to nature. The times are long gone when you could catch fish with thick main lines, stiff leaders and buoyant underwater floats. The catfish have learned quickly and recognize the signals of too roughly chosen fishing arrangements very early and avoid the bait. For years Stefan has been relying on small, light, streamlined underwater floats with a load capacity between 10 and 20 grams, mounted on a very flexible but resistant mesh, which only lifts the bait briefly above the ground and leaves hardly any vibrations or water turbulence.

Exactly this tactic works, because Stefan and his team partner Benjamin Gründer can look back on over 22 caught fish of the 100 kilo class! Right now at the turn of the month both report from the next catfish cracker on the tactic “easily seduced”. The water level of the Po dropped every day, the water color was very clear. Guide Stefan Seuss put his two guests Pierre Götzinger and Manuel Schal on a sandbank near a long clay bank that falls steeply into the water. From the sandbank, the assemblies were diverted against the current into the steep slope and offered right there on an edge where a brute current shoots past the bank. This place, explains Stefan Seuss, has never been fished, although it is in the immediate vicinity of the catfish camp on the Heiner family's back.

Most anglers avoid places that are uncomfortable and where you first have to work on the shore in order to be able to do your assemblies later. But that's exactly what makes the difference - and the inaccessible and uncomfortable places are where the biggest fish! If such a place is then fished with finely tuned equipment, it usually comes out really thick! In the morning there is a brutal bite and a 40 minute drill follows. Angler Pierre Götzinger is asked to do everything, but with the fishing gear, Black Cat Freestyle rod 2,80 and Fin-Nor Marquesa multiplier reel 40 T, the angler can stop the Urian from escaping and tire the fish.

Immediately after the catch, the giant was measured and weighed, a length of 253 cm and a weight of 109,5 kilos are the best evidence of an easy seduction to large catfish.