Definition of "catched"

Their fleſh is red, and they are catched with great hooks made faſt to pieces of wire.

1812, John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels

One Sunda morn young Lambton went / A-fishing in the Wear; / An' catched a fish upon he's heuk / He thowt leuk't vary queer

1867: Clarence M. Leumane, the Lambton Worm song

I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]