TY Walking Man, I usually always catch 1 nice sized cat in a 4 week hitch at work. Total fishing time is not but maybe 20 hours all together. It is a work boat after all:tinysmile_shy_t: We catch lots of smaller channel cats too along with sea cats and the trash cats we call hard heads. Almost good as camping, sitting on the back deck watching the sun set on the river:tinysmile_shy_t:I hope that friend of yours shared his catch. Hard to beat good fried catfish:tinysmile_fatgrin_t