MrWiskers, Riverpark, Great Day for Cats, 6-9-2012, AlvinC and 40 Swimmers

[MrWiskers]

Got out today to try for some more cats. We have just about got the drop shotting for cats down to a science and today was proof of that. </p>

We put in at Rivermont and trolled out to the middle of the river and started fishing. You can pretty much stop anywhere you want and catch cats so we decide to test that theory. We had 15 or so boated in the first hour so our plan worked.</p>

Funny thing today was before we put in a woman told Alvin that about 40 swimmers were going to get in the water at Rivermont. And they did. About an hour or so into fishing here came the swimmers and other people in small row boats, etc and they had the entire river blocked. They were very, very lucky there were not many boats out today or someone would have gotten killed. They did not have any police escort or anything. We waited until they passed us and rode back up and did our drift a few more times. </p>

We never lost sight of the Rivermont ramp all day and caught cats until we hit number 40 at 10:15 or so and called it a day. 40 cats in just over 3.5 hours. That is a cat boated every 5 minutes. We had 7 channels, 33 blues, 1 little bluegilland 3 rock bass. Alvin lost a 2.5 lb smallie at the boat and a little spot. Fun, fun, fun. Water temp today was 80 F. Fish were anywhere from 7 ft down to 25 feet and all over. I think the entire river bottom is cover in cats. All fish were caught drop shotting Gulp minnows except the little blue gill hit a jigging spoon (only fished it about 2 minutes).</p>

We found a pod of really big gars, some looked to be 4 feet. I had one try to get a small blue cat, followed it all the way to the boat.Really big and thick gars. </p>

 

[loneranger93]

Thanks for the post.
Glad yall had a good day on the water!

 

[outcaster]

Great day!!!!!! What size weights were you using? Looks like 1oz in the pic.

 

[EricM]

What a fun day!!!! emoWorthy emoWorthy

 

[MrWiskers]

Half oz.

 

[foodsaver]

looks fun

 

[niteowl]

Sounds like fun. I'm really gonna have to try those gulp minnows

 

[Jmax]

I cannot believe you are catching those nasty slim fish. Next thing you know you will be talking about all the operations you are having, using cut bait, stinking up the river and hanging out all the time up at the nuke. emoPoke Move over EricM.

Those things are nasty. I guess if you can't catch many real fish you might as well go for the nasty ones. emoEvil Jmax

 

[machinekiller]

looks like u guys had a active morning,way to go

 

[BILL DANTZ]

Good day on the water guys. I think the swimmers are part of a tri-
athlon race they have every year around this time.

 

[MrWiskers]

Jmax - 6/10/2012 10:26 AM I cannot believe you are catching those nasty slim fish. Next thing you know you will be talking about all the operations you are having, using cut bait, stinking up the river and hanging out all the time up at the nuke. emoPoke Move over EricM. Those things are nasty. I guess if you can't catch many real fish you might as well go for the nasty ones. emoEvil Jmax

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Anybody can catch those dumb green fish.</p>

 

[polo-dog]

Great sounding time out there. Sorry that I wasn't with the swimmers. That would be a lot of fun. That's a big group. In the past the senior swimming group in town would swim up on the lake or down on the river. They used to ask me to go from time to time. Usually it's from one of the sloughs up in Soddy across the lake and back. I'm glad that the traffic was slow down there for them. Thanks for the report.

 

[shsimons]

That's a bunch of cats. Nice job as usual with your river mixed bag.