Quote Originally Posted by jigfreak View Post
Malek I do a lot of fresh water fishing, That cooler would work but it must be a pita to carry around. You said you are using sunnies and other small fish. I would suggest you add suckers to that list. They can be caught by enlarging the hole in a minnow trap and leaving near the mouth of small freshwater creeks that feed into the bigger ones. Another trick is to cut their dorsal fin on the bottom so they can't just sit in a hole and have to move around. It also slows them down for the catfish and I have found the catfish like softer baits like suckers more than they do sunnies though sunnies will work too.

I like that oxygenator never used it before but looks like some nice technology. If you use it be sure to give us a report on it. Like the 12 volt battery too. I agee the d batteries are crap for keeping bait alive all day when fishing in a boat I bring an extra deep cell 12v and use that to keep the bait alive.
Good luck let us know how you do. Whats your biggest flathead so far?
not really worried bout carrying it planning on making a cart for it with big sand wheels the places I access the susky at are not very big so it will be set it where I can and go from there. so far the best bait I have found for flathead catfish are actually bullhead catfish I hook them behind the dorsal fin with an 6/0 - 12/0 team catfish circle hook tos him out and flip the lever on my baitrunner the flatties cannot resist them. i have been told suckers are related to carp and here in pa it is illegal to use anything in the "goldfish" family for bait (ie goldfish, carp, koi, etc) the oxygenator I will not be wasting my money on I research the crap out of everything before I make a purchase and according to this guy http://www.slideshare.net/raminlandf...ffective-is-it who ran it through its paces testing the water every 10 minutes I will not be trying it out. " Portable Oxygenator Test Results Recirculation produced substantially more oxygen than the oxygenator and raised oxygen level to near saturation in 10 minutes. Using the Oxygenator together with recirculation increased oxygen by only 3.8% over recirculation only." which is one of the reasons I am looking for a system that will recirculate the water without having to worry about all the fish debris clogging it up . my biggest flathead ever was caught down in Oklahoma during a thunderstorm I was fishing for trout using a ultra light and 4lb test right as the storm popped up I started reeling it in to get out of there and it fell like a full speed mac truck hit my line dang near ripped the pole out of my hand 3 and a half hours later on slowly reeling and flipping the bail when he wanted to run i finally landed a 64 lb 5 oz flathead and yes I was soaked straight through for that fish. here in pa the biggest I have caught thus far was just a lil 24 pounder