Big Channel Cats

After seeing a bud of mine catch some nice channels I decided to hit a pond in my Town Limits and see how it is.  Problem........I had no good bait.....except,  my box turtles night crawlers and some frozen catalpa worms......Heck,  I do have some good bait but  I was out of cutbait which I usually keep in my game freezer.
So off to the pond I went.....stayed a couple of hours.  Rods were a Abu 5600 C4 with 15 lb ande on a 7' rod and a Shimano 3500 Baitrunner on a short 6' ugly stik loaded with the same 15 lb ande.  These are what I call by "light" cat rods.

Had 3 hits but only one hookup which was this bad boy . A 13 lber!

Then a couple of days later I took my son and a freind of his Thomas.

This time I also had no cutbait but I had gone by Foodlion and picked up some White Bass fillets.  These I cut into strips and soaked in Garlic juice. 

Here is our first hit.

A 16 lb 4 oz monster

Thomas then caught a 9.5 lber 

 A good night fishing and the boys had a great time.....I will have to hit up a few more local ponds as most around here are loaded with Channels......Thanks Mack