Join Me!!!

Allow yourself to relax. Gaze deeply into my eyes. Don't you feel calm? relax. you are with a friend. enjoy. think of clouds and bunnies. let yourself go. close your eyes and let every muscle relax and sink deeper into the couch. i will now count backwards from 10 and when i reach 1, you be free. free to do anything i say. to help the catfish King. the king will free you and reward you. i'll be your friend and we'll have fun together. now relax. 10....9...feel your eyelids get heavier...8...7...6...deeper and deeper...5....4....3....you are feeling as though you are free. gravity is gone. just my voice...2....1....crap. i've gotta go to work.. i'll see you next time. same catty time , same catty place......

rob's wedding + flatheads galore?!

went to rob and heid hughes wedding last nite. it was a lot of fun and we got to chill with Musky Erik and Sandra. erik sent me a foto of a musky that had bee killed because it was eating all the bluegills in a sweet spot and the old timers killed it. a big musky at that. also i saw some other friends. i will be holding a chili cook off this season and also a rib challenge. so some fun cooking in future. beautiful weather today. just have to nurse a hangover and maybe some fishing later. i'm hot a spot for the infamous flathead and a dude lastnite turned me on to a killer spot. later

Bizzy like a bee!!

yo, catfish is super -bizzy. frontin'ya'll. my man robby rob is gittin hitched to his ho this weekend some i'ma headin' there for some merry making. me and sexxxy baitgirl and i tore it up on the river on sunday, and who should appear thru my hamm's induced haze, but none other than Carpy-McJeffers. we chilled and shit. i missed 2 cats. very upset. more later...i think jeff is heading up north to spread the word. peace! c.f.j.

Holy Crap did we hookk 'em up!!! Lucky 07/07/07

hey boys and girls, PHat TOny and I put on a clinic last nite on how to catch catfish and drink beer. We hooked up 10 nice channel cats with a flurry of yellow-bellied bullheads and a random smallie/ walleye.
I have experimenting with a different bait presentation that seems to attract all kinds of fish.and no its not worms,...but tony's got worms.hey!! Tony topped the nite with a beauty cat that weighed around 8-9lbs. the head on this thing was huge! I brought in one lovely fish that was quite a weird one. it had the dimensions of a 26 " catfish, except it was 'bout 22'' long. very compact and pudgy. its like imagine a weenie dog that got smooshed together. i let her go.
It was fri-nite, 07/07/07. freight nite. the spot we were at had none stop semi traffic along with the train noise.. also there was a car exp in town full of Cherry hot rods that were revving their engines of course..love that gas! Antares(the giant red star) in the heart of the constellation Scorpio was beautiful. The largest of the Jovian planets sparkling above. (yes jupiter) set the stage for a romantic evening.. sexy bait girl was cheerful, but had to leave early...
Last nite i tried something i've never tried before.with a man. tony and i were alone and kinda drunk, so i let him stick his finger in my stinkbait. wow. it was painful watching my stinkbait getting finger by someone else than me. but i relaxed, we're friends right? it was all for fun, but i bet his finger still stinks today. that stuff gets under youre fingernail man. eeeeewwwww....
So try out new bait combos and experience a whole different style of fishing.. the brown side of the force is strong. Fishin with buddies. cheers from the twisted cat-guru. fish on!!! c.f.j.

happy 4th of july ya'll

hi all. what a wednesday. i watch a marathon between Rocky and Shaft yesterday while nursing a hung over "baitgirl" Sometimes free booze isn't that great, soft on the pocketbook, hard on the headache. Big news is that i am planning a flathead catfish expedition on the wisco flowage @ here to see if one may be around. it should be interesting. My friend York(the guy with the car stolen twice in one day) has a birthday as does my dear father. i will have to work on some presents. take care and keep those comments coming...except from that "blueberry Mafia guy".. we all know who you are. later cfj...

Catfish Jim Defeats Carpfish Jeff!!!!!!! / Zinger!!!

yes, its true!!. i protected my world-title belt against the nasty carpfisherman Jeffers!!! he even tried to cheat.!! he used corn*** dastardly.. Our day started as usual with a little friendly indian-leg wrestling. from then on it elevated to a full bore fishing tourney!!! jeff's carpy-nessis only rivaled by his love of smarmy-ness. all in all... a great day. we fought. we bonded. we loved. not each other. but just those quiet inbetween times. a musky man has a LOT of inbetween time. (just ask Erik (a.k.a.judge judy.. about the lotion incident?) And its all true, i would not lie to you; my catfish brethren.
yesterday i had one of the biggest zingers of my Life!!! No, not the chocolate twinkie-like objects that are so yummy. i am speaking of the sound of your drag when a catfish (or carp) grabs that bait and heads for the hills. If you ever hear..."zzzzzzzz...sploosh" your rods in the water (empirical knowledge). I had just cast out a couple rods and was contemplating my third rods terminal rigging, when lo and behold!! my drag started screaming like my crazy neighbor's wife!!! I was sure this was a behemoth, or a small guy hot to trot. i lifted the pole and .... must've just had the bait in its mouth.. only bite of the afternoon. shux.
i've been busy campin a little and getting my goldsmith bench finalized. a lot of small details in all to get a comprehensive jeweler's bench built. my girlie has been so supportive of it all. she's whats kept me going on this mission. so, if you'd like any custom jewelery brothers. let me know!! jim

June just past the Blue Moon

Hello everyone!! just back from a campin' trip at devil's lake in baraboo, wisconsin with the dinkins family. had a blast, got rained on, burned wood, drank hamm's and ate too much. very fun indeed.
this weekend is my friend rob hughes' bachelor party. we are headin' to fish the Wolf river at the New london dam on housebo-at that is grandfathered in the river. so me and some buddies are tossing bait for flatheads all nite. rob caught a 40 in pike last time and the river is known for big flatheads. yea!!!
Carpy Mc jeffers is busy circumnavigating the willow and was last heard fighting a lashing thunder-boomer. he may not come back the same man. compounding his isolation from human interaction, i believe he is becoming weirder. (if possible) check out his fun @ www.inbackofbeyond.blogspot.com
Phat tony and his bait ho went down to the brown river state park in Ar-Kansas on memorial day weekend. they canoed and lounged on the lazy banks of that purdy river with their deliverance tour guide, Ernie. as ernie says, "if two guys can't hurt him, one guy can't do much harm" I assume this must be about "fist" fights. hahahaha...
i'm working "Rock the brewery" this weekend too. yep. i work at the Stevens Point Brewery too. many facets to CFJ.. I can't wait to hear Richard Marx, Starship, and Steppenwolf play.. I'm breakin' out my hot pink suspenders and piano tie for this extravaganza!!!
Also, in light of my developing beer belly, i am gonna stop drinking beer for 2 weeks.. like lent but different.. i will switch to atkins/slimfast drinks like; wine, gin,vodka,and whisky. i will watch myself transform back into the lean mean catfishin' machine i was before 27. i guess we'll take this trip together. 14 days. i can do it. maybe I'll musky fish for a while. you aren't supposed to drink beer while you musky fish because its so exciting, and you can't drink because you are catching too many musky all the time... at least that what erik and cookie tell me. well, i'll keep in touch better my brethren,.. i hit the wisco 3 times last week, and i think i'm a switchin' carp for awhile cuz they're jumpin like water on a hot greased pan. later. cfj.