Catfishing techniques

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:38 pm

Does clonking work Ron .... and is that how you spell it? Laughing

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:56 pm

I have seen this being demonstrated during a showing of Matt Hayes on TV when he was in France. I must say a bizarre way to catch or induse fish in to the swim but it did work. Ron is your best man for this

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:51 pm

As a cat feeds in two different ways ....and one is ...from vibration and noise waves that travel through the water, Clonking is a vey good metnod of attracting thier attention Wink

this is also why the bouy rig works too, as its sending signals down through the water Wink

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:12 pm

Is this a normal sound that a cat makes under water.. Why does this technique work as well as it does?

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:28 am

there are several schools of thought on this one ....and im not 100% with any of them personaly Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:19 pm

According to some people, the sounds created by the clonk bear a striking similarity to the sound of feeding fish attacking baitfish near the surface. It seems that everyone has their own theory of what the clonk's sound mimics that provokes a cat's curiosity. It's been written that clonking resembles the sound of struggling carp on the surface, or other catfish feeding, or perhaps the sound of cormorant droppings hitting the surface of the water. We may never know what the clonking sound signifies but one thing is for sure, there must be something more to it.

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:27 pm

When Guiding in Spain ....I run the boat around in circles reving the out board ...it sounds nothink like the clonk .....but it atracts the cats ....just the same Wink

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:17 pm

It must just be a vibration or a ressinance issue