OK next time you and your buddies are sitting around drinking , try this game.

Take one of those fake mouse toys for cats and tie it up on your small trout rod, with 6# test or lighter. A small weight can be added to increase casting distance.

Go out onto your street at night and search for kitty-holding bushes, cars, and yards. Cast far down the street as you can, then slowly retrieve. See how many local cats you can take inventory of in the neighborhood.

Points are awarded when you catch and release. A catch and release is defined by getting the kitty to follow the mouse all the way up to you while retreiving and petting him before letting go.


OK, I admit, maybe we were bored as teenagers but it sure was a fun game especially when anyone else ever do it?

....or have similar game to share?

Not cats, but bats! Little snoopy rod with egg hook baited with glow in the dark rubber insect parts. Charge 'em with a flashlight, cast straight up, BAT ON! You weren't the only bored kid around.

You might want a bit sturdier line for cat fishing. Our 8lb kitty hit one of my 1/8th oz jigs and broke the 12lb test main line. I think 20lb or better would be a minimum.

Andy

When I was a (Bored) kid at Westport in the summer, we tied herring to the main line on a salmon rod (no hooks weight or anything), cast out a short way, let a gull pick it up and freespool him for a hundred yards or so. This allowed time to get it in the gullet before we flipped the lever. Nothin' like watching a seagull do a backward snap-roll mid-air.

hehehe, am gonna have to try one of these ideas some time.
Make sure you put some kinda of scent on your rat Maybe some kinda of fish scent might work?

Plugs with rattles work well also. I would like to recommend going barbless at least.

We used to catch seagulls with flyline tied in a loop around a pile of Fritos. Once they step in pull the loop tight. Gull on!

I got one, although people and cops don't like it. My two friends and I where boared one night and we got an idea. We tied a small furry stuffed animal to the end of the line and fling it acrossed the street, then hid behind some bushes. When a car would come by, we would real it into the head lights and infront of the car. One guy got out of his car, saw that it was stuffed, and started yelling into the night. A couple minutes later a cop pulled up and we quitly slipped away after cutting the line!

As for scent on the rats for cats, I'd use catnip.

Jay

In high school some friends and I helped the football coach load hay for his horse ranch. He would use pickups and trailes to haul the bales. Any mouse found underr a bale was thrown into the pickup bed and used for the evening game of mouse baseball.

Lucky for the mice we were on the football team and couldnt hit very well.

Can we get back to cat fishing? I see it following the strong man competition on ESPN.

If you want the Big Native Cats you got to go with the Pink Worm

How about putting a peanut on an electronic skeet disc launcher and wait for a squirrel to grab it and push the launch button.

Now, thats a flying squirrel.

fp= wasn't me!!!!!honest

Keep going guys; PETA just loves reading stuff like this.

Flying squirrels, mouse baseball, snatching bait from the gullet of a gull...... just the kind of ammo they need to label us all as cruel. If you don't think they read this board, you're wrong. Especially with a thread title like "Domesticated Cat Fishing."

Don't forget what you may find funny, they find atrocious.

Saw an articat about twenty years ago in "National Lampoon" about fishing for dogs from the back of a pickup truck using kittens for bait. They had a fighting chair rigged to the bed of the truck and had the deep sea gear out. Too Funny! What next? Cat juggling?

if the world has become so PC we can't have a little fun discussing some of the stranger things we have seen (or done) for fear of what PETA or some other narrow intrest group might think then

Baddawg is right, if we fear PETA, then the terrorists have already won! :p

I got one

I have a really dumb dog: My friend and I was sittin around at my house really bored so I took my black widow rod and ambassadour reel and tied a biscut on the line and my dog took it and was running around and jumping. He refused to let it go. and the biscut did not even break. really funny <img border="0" alt="[eat]" title="" src="graemlins/eat.gif" />

Who's kidding?

We used to fish for chipmonks when the fishing was slow. Tie on a cookie and cast it to them. They would grab it and you could slowly reel them in while they had the breaks on, dragging all four feet. When they get pretty close to you, flip the bail and let them run with it. When they almost get back to their hole, reset the bail and the line goes tight, and they go flying ass over tea kettle! Dunk the cookies in whiskey, and you get drunk chipmonks that are even funnier to watch!!

Yeah well fine--you can call it torture or whatever, but I like to tie up monster ugly flies out of leftovers and fling them around on a scrap of rod tip with a scrap of fly line for my cat, Bella. She gets a good workout out of it. Of course, the other 23 hours of the day she sleeps...lol

The only problem is that she's also taken to slapping my belt around when I'm ptting it on in the morning...

note: no cats were harmed during the filming of this response...

I used to catch fruit bats and tie fishing line around there necks,like a leash.I would take them for walks,with them flying infront of me.Got some strange looks from passerbyers.They could not see the fishing line!

Everyspring we would have our own ratball championships.As we would clear the old,moldy hay and alphalpha out of the hay barns we would catch the rats which would burrow and nest in the old stuff.When hay molds it creates quite alot of heat and the rats love to nest in it.a picher and a shovel for a bat is all we needed.

When we would get tired of baseball we would stuff them into a gas dryer we used for horse tack.They did not like that much.

I remember getting an ass woopin from grampa for fishing for ducks on purpose.Third accidental duck in a row pissed him off.It is not like they come to the boat all happy and friendly.He was getting pretty beat by these things!I remember my dad laughing as my g-pa bent me over his knee.The problem was I never quit laughuing becuse my dad would not quit laughing.Just made him hit me harder.