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With the river blown out and nice weather predicted, I decided to get out early and do a half-day trip. I was on the water by 6:00am and it was a couple feet high and heavily stained. Morning was nice. After getting nothing on the established spatterdock field, I moved to the cove. After throwing a tube and swim bait and getting no bites, I turned to my chatterbait. It was the ticket with the higher water and shad still present. I hooked a nice one and it turned out to be 18.5", but solid and felt about 4 pounds.
After a few minutes, I hooked a big catfish on the chatterbait in the same area. It was at least 28" long, but I had trouble getting a hold on the fish and cut my finger with the chatterbait blade. Not too bad, but I skipped the picture. I tried the tube again and finally got a smaller LM with that.
The LM looked like they were post-spawn. I moved around the cove and caught another large catfish on the chatterbait. It was not long, but obviously had been gorging on shad. I was able to get the lip gripper on that one.
I lost two more LM, one about a pound on the chatterbait and one on a swim jig with a keitech trailer. That one was over two pounds and it came off right at the boat. If I had a net I would have been better off, but too much to carry in the canoe. I got off the water a little after noon. It was low tide and the bite had died off. Not a lot of bites, but decent size. Great morning to be on the water.
Last edited by drxfish (May-24-18 11:17AM)
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Nice work.....it was a very nice day out today for sure. I was able to get a few miles in on the bike!
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Ernie wrote:
Nice work.....it was a very nice day out today for sure. I was able to get a few miles in on the bike!
Very cool! You are cranking!
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Great report and nice fish!
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Nice report! Looks great to be out on the water.
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Looks like that cat's taking a leak
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hookup wrote:
Looks like that cat's taking a leak
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I am holding my words on the cat picture.. LOL
Great report..so a chaterbait you say.. maybe some day I will buy one of those ..MAYBE.
Capt Mike
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