Fishing Forum

Clint Bailey and his Dad fished with me last June. This time Clint brought his brother Cody along instead.<br /><br />I absolutely LOVE the month of May.It typically brings me a catfish bonanza. Although I was actually worried when we started fishing at daylight. Just as we got there TVA did some "switching out" of the generators and changed the amount and direction of the flow. For nearly an hour we caught very little. But the fish finally settled down and we figured out the right drift, because we started just smokin' em.<br /><br />It was realy a not a "numbers day," but almost every blue we caught weighed 8 to 15 lbs., and we had multiple fish over 15, three fish over 20 lbs. and the "bruiser" of the day was a short, but VERY fat, 40 lber. caught by Clint. They both had their personal best fish today... not catfish, but biggest fish period. We also caught good numbers of channel cats 3 to 6 lbs.<br /><br />As usual, checked on my pet bluegill and more of those big bull bruiser bream are showing up, Clint and Cody topped off their cooler with 20 monster bluegill inspiring Clint to say, "This is one of the most amazing fisheries I've ever seen!" I didn't disagree. BTW, the BIG cats got released, but a cooler full of smaller guys (under 10 lbs.) won a free ride back to Middle Tennessee.<br /><br />Clint works for Jack Daniels in Lynchburg, so my tip was a bottle of "Gentleman Jack," and that means life is VERY good, and gettin' better every day! emoBeer <br />