Channel Cat deep in the Jock ?!?

Post by **gmctruck** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:20 pm

My buddy lives in Munster along the Jock River. The other day his wife was down at the river and thought she was looking at a huge rock ... until the rock swam away

After flipping through on-line photos, she identified the fish as a channel cat. Is is possible/common for a catfish to be that far up the Jock??

Cheers,
gmctruck

Post by **Todd B.** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:55 pm

Given that the Rideau R. biodiversity studies have not recorded any channel cats, my feeling is that it is unlikely that it was a channel cat. My guess is that it was a big brown bullhead catfish.

Post by **joco** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:02 pm

or a big turtle...

joco

Post by **gmctruck** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:35 am

I didn't think that brown bullheads got very big, but I just checked and the MNR regs describe them as being betweeen 8-14 inches. I guess she saw a monster

Cheers

Post by **FishingIsHealing** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:12 pm

Was most likely a sucker. That river is full of suckers up near Munster. I grew up there and if you go on jock trail road, you can fish off the bridge and you'll see 10+ suckers instantly. Or at least it was like that 5 years ago.

There is pike and muskie in there as well. Personally I've never caught anything amazing in there. It's a small river and years ago there was a big sewage spill in there I think. I'm sure it's fine now but the Jock is just dirty in my opinion. it's still an important little river.

I've caught a small Muskie in Kings creek which is at the intersection of Jock Trail Road and Dwyer Hill Road. Still not really worth fishing though.

Pretty little creek though.

I see people fishing where the Jock empties out into the Rideau. There is a good spot for Walleye right near Carleton Lodge where the river becomes deep and bends a little but this is further down from where the Jock empties.