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[Mumpy]

Hey guys, I was wondering if I could get a little help or some information from ya. My best friend is driving down from Virginia on Friday and I am driving up from Columbus Georgia. He’s bringing his son who is 10 and autistic. He is in this fishing group that The Autism Society of Northern Virginia has started and the way it works is when he catches a fish of any species he takes a photo with it and turns it in and they give him points. I’m going to try and get him a bass with a frog, not too confident in that, but I’m going to try but I was thinking maybe of getting him on some easier fish to catch like a catfish. I’ve been on Chick a few times (like 3) and I was thinking of taking him up by the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.

Would that be a good place to take him for catfish?
Are there any better places for catfish on the lake?
Do you think a Frog would be about the easiest way for him to possibly catch a bass?

Thanks for any help on this. I really want to show them a good time when they come down and I’d really like to get him some points on the board. I’ll come back here on Monday and post pictures of Alex and the fish he caught!

 

[SlabDog]

My 2 cents is this. For a bass I'd tie him on a mid to shallow crankbait or a rattletrap and have him throw it down the edges of grass, or an ideal place would be the flats straight out from HBSP. just past the creek channel. the grass is there, but not up to the top of the water. I've caught quite a few from 1lb to 3lb with a shallow CB in this location just cranking it across the grass for the past month or so. I don't fish for catfish, but I've caught the boogers on just about everything from plastic worms to crappie jigs and all over the lake so I can't help with that. They do tie into some huge catfish by the nuke plant though. He might tie into one as big as he is....LOL.

 

[Mumpy]

Thanks Slapdog for that, I'll definitely take your advice and hit that spot up.

 

[EricM]

For cats, fish the discharge area at Sequoyah. It is where you see the "boils" just upstream of the powerlines that cross the river at the big bluff and the depth in the middle of the river goes from 50+ to about 30 and then drops back off to 50+. Anchor or drift from the 30' area and fish the bottom on the downstream drop. Chicken breast and nightcrawlers work just fine on 2/0 or larger hooks and with 2 or 3 oz of weight. There should be plenty of 3-5 lb fish with the occasional suprise. Good luck to your friend's son!!!

 

[Mumpy]

That's awesome EricM, thank you for that. So they hit ok with Chicken breast? Man that would make things a lot easier on me, I was hating on the idea of getting chicken liver blood on my boat, lol.

 

[EricM]

Works better than livers and is much easier. Cut them into maybe 1" by 2" chunks. Enjoy!!

 

[Gator]

You got some good advise from these two. They know what they're talking about. We wish you luck. ??

 

[Mr. S]

Mumpy, a lot cleaner bait I have always heard about for catfish is hot dogs cut into pieces. Maybe EricM can shed some light on this he being the catfish whisperer and all. Good luck to your friends.


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[Mumpy]

Guys I can't thank you enough for these tips you've given me, like I said, on Monday when I come back to work I'll post a bunch of pictures, it should be a BLAST!!!!

 

[porthos33]

If you could catch some bluegill cut them into chunks and try them to for the cats too.

 

[Mumpy]

We started the day off @8am @ Chester Frost. I figured there would be a Tx going on so we slept in a bit. Wake up to rain and I should have known better when my dad said it would be out of here by 10 that it was going to basically be here all day. We launch the boat in the rain and I start the engine and I have a busted fuel hose. After going to Ace Hardware down the road and picked up a Clamp we finally got on the water around 9ish in the rain. In the back of my mind I knew that rain wasn’t leaving at 10, but for some weird reason I was still wanting 10am to hurry up and get here.

The first stop we made was at that “community hole” at the mouth of Chester Frost. I worked with Alex on how to cast a spinning rod set up and tied a fluke on for him because his dad said he knew how to work a fluke. We then moved up towards the grass line along that bank and started just moving slowly along that grassline towards the back of the cove. Then I hear SWOOOOSH near the boat and it looked to be like a 4lb Bass demolished that fluke right at the edge of the grass. The bass then began to swim under the boat and unbeknownst to any of us, Alex had never set the hook, he was basically just holding the rod and the bass got off. It was a little heart breaking but Alex’s eyes got big and from that point forward for the next 30 minutes you couldn’t get a word in edge wise, lol. He was talking up a storm.

Unfortunately, after dealing with the rain until 1pm we decided to leave. I never got a chance to go to any spots that you guys gave me but I really truly appreciate what you guys tried to do for me and my friend and his son Alex. Thank you guys so much.

P.S. Although I had to leave Sunday morning, my Dad took Ron and Alex out Sunday afternoon by Raccoon Mountain and Alex did catch a decent little bass.

 

[rusty50576]

Thanks for the follow up report, I bet he won't forget that big swirl on the fluke for a while

 

[EricM]

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