Catfishing 8-26-06 Nuke plant

[flip1up]

Katslayer and I caught 12-15 fish this morning from 2 pounds to almost 12. Nothing big for us today, but we had a good time together. We used boneless thighs today. Saw liveliner and his son today, they were catching plenty too. Will add a couple pics in a few. You know they are enjoying themself when you hear them giggling while their reeling them in.

 

[jon the fisherman]

Flip, you are becoming pretty consistant catching them cats. Looks like you and Katslayer both had a good time and that is all that matters, but I know a big one would make it all that much better.

 

[tndoe270]

NICE! I worked all day killing those birds for you guys to have some bait! If my numbers are right, we killed 300+K last night and today. I think I'm heading towards Sequoyah in the a.m.

 

[BBassJr]

Nice fish Flip. think we saw you out there this morning

 

[Buoy-Master]

We went this morning with Micheal, Mr Wiskers. He managed one in and we had allot of bite but mainly bait stealers.</p>

Did you come in from the north side of the nuke plant? I know thats Liveliner behind you...I seen him this morning.</p>

 

[flip1up]

Yes, from Skull Island. For the first hour they bit pretty good, after that they were really just sniffing and playing with it. Every now and then we could stick one, but like you said, bait stealers. What did you use for bait? We didnt get a bite on the plant side, best place for us was right on the drop off the hump on the other side about 25-30 feet deep.

 

[Liveliner]

Nice to see you and your son out there this AM. That is a nice fish you got there. I was trying to get my son hooked up with a biggan but all we caught were less than 6#.[img=http://img.slickdeals.net/images/smilies2/blowup.gif]

 

[MrWiskers]

flip1up - 8/26/2006 5:21 PM

Yes, from Skull Island. For the first hour they bit pretty good, after that they were really just sniffing and playing with it. Every now and then we could stick one, but like you said, bait stealers. What did you use for bait? We didnt get a bite on the plant side, best place for us was right on the drop off the hump on the other side about 25-30 feet deep.

We were using skipjack and large threadfins. We were fishing the ledge from the 2nd red marker trolling toward the bluff keeping the boat in 35-40 feet. This was my first time catfishing on Chick so it was a lot of guess work on my end. I boated one about 5lbs and had another small fish come off 1/2 way up. We had a few fish mouth the baits but did not take and of course we had plenty of bait stealers. I had a good time getting to know Bbass and BbassJr and look forward to the next trip.

 

[polo-dog]

Good job guys. There was almost no flow out there in the river today until noon. Roba22 and I saw all of the boats out there. Was that FishingMachine in the pontoon boat? We fished the drop for bass but the would just play with it and not really take the bait. It seems like they just don't turn on unless there is flow in the river. I checked, 6-7 K CFS, just not enough to get the bass going.

 

[flip1up]

Michael, where did you get the large threadfins? How large were they? What kind of boat were yall in? I'm full of questions tonight.

 

[MrWiskers]

flip1up - 8/26/2006 8:56 PM

Michael, where did you get the large threadfins? How large were they? What kind of boat were yall in? I'm full of questions tonight.

They are my frozen ones from the spring. We loaded up this spring with a 5 gallon bucket full each down at Nick dam. I filled up two 5 gallon buckets (no water) in less than 10 minutes this spring. The threadfins are anywhere from 3-6 inches. We were in my red/black 17 ft Nitro. I am going with drc tomorrow (getting a lesson on the Chick) so if you are out come by. You know where we will be.

 

[polo-dog]

Those sound like good threadfins. I stocked up with this year's crop Monday night. I have about 5lbs of them but they are 1 1/2 to 2 inchers. The problem with the little threads is that everything will eat them and so you get a lot of small blues and stripe. However since they are eaten by the bigger fish we also have been catching LMs, SMs, and bluecats in the 8-10lb range too. I really doubt that I'll get a 50+ blue on one of those but you never know. Hopefully this year I'll stock up in the fall and winter.

 

[rsimms]

polo-dog - 8/26/2006 10:01 PM

Those sound like good threadfins. I stocked up with this year's crop Monday night. I have about 5lbs of them but they are 1 1/2 to 2 inchers. The problem with the little threads is that everything will eat them and so you get a lot of small blues and stripe. However since they are eaten by the bigger fish we also have been catching LMs, SMs, and bluecats in the 8-10lb range too. I really doubt that I'll get a 50+ blue on one of those but you never know. Hopefully this year I'll stock up in the fall and winter.

You catch bass on the tiny threadfins even when they're dead? Any good bass? I've heard of BIG cats caught on tiny baits. You never know. I think these days that is why our catfish bite quits at dark. I think the fish start pulling up shallow roaming after the threadfin schools ganging up on surface. They won bust 'em like bass or stripe, but I bet they're taking advantage of the free groceries.

 

[polo-dog]

Oh yes rsimms, on the main lake drops they don't care how long those threadfins have been dead. As long as there is current moving them on the line I've never noticed a bit of difference with live vs dead.

 

[rsimms]

polo-dog - 8/26/2006 10:15 PM
Oh yes rsimms, on the main lake drops they don't care how long those threadfins have been dead. As long as there is current moving them on the line I've never noticed a bit of difference with live vs dead.

Hmm!! So many fish, so much to learn. emoScratch

Got to go to bed... fish-thirty comes early in the morning.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Flip, Sounds like ya'll had a great day! He even looks like he was giggleing when the piccs were taken. thanks for the post and the info.

 

[MrWiskers]

You catch bass on the tiny threadfins even when they're dead? Any good bass? I've heard of BIG cats caught on tiny baits. You never know. I think these days that is why our catfish bite quits at dark. I think the fish start pulling up shallow roaming after the threadfin schools ganging up on surface. They won bust 'em like bass or stripe, but I bet they're taking advantage of the free groceries.

On Watts Bar when I was in Jr College we used to cast net the little 1.5 in threadfins and freeline float them on the main river banks. I saw a 6-7lb smallie and a couple of days later a 4lb smallie eat these things. We use to catch numerous 2-3 lbs bass doing this technique. Dead acutally worked better I think as the bass are just laying under the school looking for a free meal to float down.

 

[Guest]

polo-dog - 8/26/2006 10:01 PM

Those sound like good threadfins. I stocked up with this year's crop Monday night. I have about 5lbs of them but they are 1 1/2 to 2 inchers. The problem with the little threads is that everything will eat them and so you get a lot of small blues and stripe. However since they are eaten by the bigger fish we also have been catching LMs, SMs, and bluecats in the 8-10lb range too. I really doubt that I'll get a 50+ blue on one of those but you never know. Hopefully this year I'll stock up in the fall and winter.

Big baits and big hooks only catch big fish but small baits catch everything. My personal best (31-1/2 lbs.) was caught on a medium shrimp on a 2/0 Kahle hook. JMHO

Cheez

 

[MrWiskers]

I'm with you Cheez, little baits sometime work as well as big baits. My personal best of 32lbs came using a 6" threadfin this spring and we had a few days were 1/2 of a 3-5" threadfin was catching 10-15 lb fish where a whole threadfin would not get a bite. We also found a 58lb blue on a jug this spring that had ate a 3 inch fillet.