Catfish - 1/28

[rsimms]

Catfished hard today... below the dam (Chickamauga) and above. Pretty slow, but we weren't skunked. James Green got one that went 13 lbs. Lost another fish... since he got away we assumed that he weighed about 60 lbs.! emoLaugh Oh yea... sidenote. A buddy told me he caught a limit (30) of crappie in four hours today. Wouldn't be right for me to divulge exact locale, but it was the upper end of Chickamauga.

 

[drc]

Good to hear a catfish report rsimms! What kind of bait were you using? shad or skipjack?

 

[rsimms]

Had some gizzard shad and bluegill.

 

[DHaun]

Thanks for the report Rsimms - Nice looking Blue! Congrats to James! They really fight hard at that size, and all other sizes too come to think of it...

Jerdog and I drifted hand-sized threadfins Thursday night at Nickajack and got skunked on stripers and blue cats. I thought for sure we might get a blue cat in a deep hole but they seem to be slow or shut-down right now. We marked a school of big suspended fish 18ft deep in 30ft but they must not havew been hungry.

I believe I read in this month's TN Sportsman that Chickamauga was Region III's top trophy Crappie producer last year. I bet this Spring is going to be great.

How deep was that cat?

 

[rsimms]

DHaun - 1/28/2006 11:43 PM
How deep was that cat?

He was about 30 feet fown...