3/16 and 3/17 Gville and Wheeler "Big Cats"

[Southerncats]

Catfishing has been kinda slow for me lately and I'am relieved that it's starting to pick up some....We had on Ok day yesterday(3/16), we started out below gville dam and had very little action.....it seems there is just not a lot of cats up river right now, we then switched to Gville lake and ran in to some action catching a 22,20,16,8,and 6 lbers and had one nice one come off.......I really thought today (3/17) would be slow with the cold front and all......we went and fished on lower Wheeler...on our first stop within 10 min's of getting bait in the water we had our first run, about 1 min into the battle pole number two went off I picked up the rod and handed it off to Diane, I then proceeded to net Jay's fish which turned out to be a 47 lber.....quickly I dumped the fish out in the bottom of the boat and netted Diane's 42 lber, before we could get any pics rod number three went off turned out to be a short 22 lber, we quickly snapped one pic of the little one and released it, before we could take the other pics rod number 4 went off after a pretty good fight I netted a nice 35 lb Blue for Jay.....we then proceeded to take pics for awhile and fished for about another hour without a nibble....I moved two more times and on my 4th hole of the day we had been sitting there about 20 min and a rod bent and the clicker went slowly and steadily to clicking ( I Love that Noise), about two mins into the fight rod #2 went to screaming I picked the rod up and gave it some heavy pressure to get it out of the structure we were fishing around, and handed the rod off to Diane after a short fight while Jay was still fighting his fish I netted a nice but easily landed 56 Lber....I dumped the fish into the bottom of the boat and after another two min's or so I netted Jay's hard fighting 70 Lb Bluecat......we tried one more spot and decided to call it a day after 5 hrs......they took a bunch of pics but I only got a few with my camera.

 

[rsimms]

emoEek

 

[foodsaver]

way to go!

 

[EricM]

Terrific day!!!emoWorthy

 

[Triton4Bass]

cool man! what size line do you use for those bad boys?

 

[bosco]

Now thats what I call a fishin report. What are you guys using for bait?

 

[Bprice]

Outstanding Mike!!! Lower Wheeler, a mystery that Allen and I HAVE to figure out. Good job!

 

[Southerncats]

thanks guys......I use 30 lb mono with about a 24-32 inch 80 lb leader which is also mono......we were using cut Skip-Jack for bait, In case yall didn't know it they are coming in below the dams now.

 

[WLG]

Thanks for the skipjack report and nice lookin CATS!!

 

[MADD DOG]

WOW, sounds like an exciting trip. Those are some great cats.emoThumbsup

 

[craazyboutbass]

I'd have to go with RSIMMS emoEek !

 

[CRAZYHORSE]

Nice fish and good report!!

crazyhorse

 

[slo-ride]

wow...not THAT'S catfishing!! emoThumbsup

 

[minner]

Good job Mike,emoThumbsup. We fished up river and only caught two decent cats Saturday. Yall fared much better!

 

[Southerncats]

There's a couple of more pics....I really like the pic of the 56

 

[engatty]

Awesome!!!!! That's an incredible story!!!!! I've seen pairs....but FOUR???? Wow! That's kinda-sorta like a blue cat feeding frenzy! I wish I could have filmed this!!!!

-Steve

 

[Lone Oak]

Great looking cats for sure, someone is goin to have to post a picture of a Skipjack for me. I am thinking, it may be them big shad that look like little tarpon I sometimes catch from the bank, while crappie fishing ???

 

[drc]

Nice pics Southerncats.... I'm long over due for a day like that.

 

[fishinvol]

Lone Oak - 3/19/2007 8:58 PM

Great looking cats for sure, someone is goin to have to post a picture of a Skipjack for me. I am thinking, it may be them big shad that look like little tarpon I sometimes catch from the bank, while crappie fishing ???

That's the ones loan oak. They are also called "tennessee tarpon".