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I am up in central MO right now visiting family and naturally had to bring along my gear for some day trips. I was sequester at the house yesterday by family, but not to worry the 2acre pond has some nice sized fish in it. With all the recent rains the pond was running over the spill way a little and creating a nice current that swept past some vegetation and nice hiding places for the fish. I was striking out on my presentation and not catching much, so I got creative...which usually doesn't work... and tied on a size 2 plastic worm hook with a 5in purple plastic worm on it. I put it out into the current and was not pleased with my cast..it landed dead center in the current instead of near the structure I wanted to fish...but I let it drift anyways. With the weight of the hook the worm made a slow decent as it traveled along and then stopped and started moving at a right angle to the current. I set the hook and was shocked when the line started peeling out of my hand and then off the reel into the backing. I am not fishing heavy duty equipment here..5-6 weight rod with about 8ft of 8lb mono on the end. I was running up and down the dam fighting this fish in and out the whole time not having any idea what was on the other end of the line. Finally after about 10min I bring in this 8lb channel cat!! I had no idea there were even catfish in the pond, or that one would take a plastic worm. I haven't caught a catfish for 10 years, and those I caught were always on chicken liver. However, it was a heck of a lot of fun and I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to catch some more. Who knew fly fishing for catfish could be so entertaining!!