Wheeler - Catfish - 3/23/06

[Bprice]

My buddy who works 7 days a week and never gets to go fishing called me earlier this week and told me he was off all week and wanted to fish. He told me he wanted to catfish, so I obliged, its been a while since I have been... too much bass fishing to do.

The day started off miserable as I got to ramp and realized I had left my wallet that has license and fishing license in it... my house is 25 minutes from the ramp... so i dropped them off and had my buddy's start catching some bream for bait.

Luckily I got back and they had a whole mess.

We initially started drifting live Bream... but after dodging all the boats practicing for the BFL this weekend we decided to hunker down in some of my favorite Flathead holes. The conditions looked decent for Flatties, lots of current and stained water. So we anchored over some log jams adjacent to channel bends. I was working for flatheads and i had my buddy toss of the channel ledge to see if we could get some blues cruising by. About three minutes after he casted out, he had a nice fish on... it ended up being a 9 lb Blue cat on a live Bluegill. I normally put ones that big back, but he really wanted to keep it and have it for supper.

I worked several other Flathead haunts and couldn't coax a bite. I was really hoping to nail a good one today, but it didn't happen.

The water was surprisingly warm, 62 degrees in Flint. Which makes me question my temp gauge... but it was accurate on the air temp, so I don't know.

Has anyone, Polo?, gone out for Flatheads? What are ya'lls doing????

 

[Davo]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

Nice looking fish. I couldn't tell you how to fish for cats to save my life.

 

[jason]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

Nice catemoThumbsup. Don't mean to hijack but where is Polo-dog? Haven't heard from him in a while.

 

[DHaun]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

Great Report BPrice - Thanks! Where were you fishing - Guntersville? Yep, we need Polo to chime in on the cat situation - It might be time to break out the 2lb test!

 

[Jmax]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

Polo's out of pocket but will be back soon.emoCool Jmax

 

[Bprice]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

I was in Flint Creek on Wheeler Lake. The hole I was in is my favorite crappie hole on the creek. Its on a flat run of the channel with lots of laydowns, stumps and an old fence row. TVA didn't care to much about cleaning the area to well before flooding. emoSmile

 

[fisherpal2k]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

great info Bprice. Thanks for the report.

 

[Bprice]

RE: Catfish - 3/23/06

No problem! My catfish reports will pick up in the summer, one of my favorite things is catfishing on a hot summer nights... here is a pick from one of our best nights on Flint Creek... this was pretty much a double, 10 lb Blue and a 25 lb Flatdaddy. We also catch big gar, which are fun! Bass fishing gets so hot in the summer, I tend to go towards catfishing more at night, but will always bass fish on the willow fly hatches. Don't make fun of me, my friend caught me in the middle of laughing, so i look like a goateeless goober. emoLaugh

 

[jon the fisherman]

I can't tell which ones are the catfish.emoPoke

 

[Bprice]

That was dirty man!!! emoLaugh

 

[flip1up]

Is that the Flint river that runs into the main lake on Wheeler (Tn. river)? Had a T there a few years back, caught some good fish in some of those million log jams in the Flint.

 

[Bprice]

Nope the Flint River is about 8 miles from Guntersville Dam. It comes in from the North.

Flint Creek runs right through Decatur, AL (my hometown) and runs into Wheeler near the I-65 bridge, it comes from the South.

Lots of Flint!

 

[slo-ride]

great report, BPrice...i recognize that spot