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Last evening I waded Lake Lowell for about an hour. The 31 degree temperature Sunday morning had apparently moved the fish to deeper water for I only caught one bass. However, I did have a good strike from a nice fish that missed the jig, but might have got nipped a bit by the hook. A second later a channel cat leaped from the water, turned a flip and came down with a resounding splash.
I have never seen a channel catfish jump before. If I had hooked it maybe it would have jumped during the fight? Maybe the fact it was in about 18" of water caused the acrobatics.
I've never had a channel cat jump while playing one. Do you catfishermen ever have them jump?
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We also fished Lowell yesterday. Only 4 fish and all under 1.5#. In 5 to 8' of water. I guess its comforting knowing I wasn't the only one who didn't find them.
I don't recall any leaping catfish in my limited experience.
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Wade fished yesterday with a fly rod. Water seemed way too chilly to be finding bass back in the shallow timber. Caught a few perch at Gott Point and a pile of big suckers at the Upper dam. Better than getting skunked.
I'm looking forward to wade fishing the timber again when the water warms a bit.
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[quote SagebrushID]Wade fished yesterday with a fly rod. Water seemed way too chilly to be finding bass back in the shallow timber. Caught a few perch at Gott Point and a pile of big suckers at the Upper dam. Better than getting skunked.
I'm looking forward to wade fishing the timber again when the water warms a bit.[/quote]were you one of the two fly fishermen on gotts when wife and i came up on a black bass tracker?
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I was at Gotts with a buddy around mid-day for an hour or two, so that was probably us.
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lowell is slow. only had a few free hours so went to lowell at 8:15 to 10:30 sunday and no bites.could find any shallow fish. tried a friends pond on the way home and caught a few smallies with a 3.75 dandy. get warm already so they stay shallow at lowell. think i am going to see if strike is on this weekend.
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Your killing me. I have not had the chance to go after cats yet.
Over at Brownlee I saw them jumping last year. We were in a cloud of 1" long crappie. You could look over the side and seem them swarming. The cats were coming up through the mass so fast they were coming out of the water. I saw big fish signals on the drop from 50 to 70 foot. I sent a chunk of fish down and wham the rest is history and on video on youtube. The fish we saw jumping were small maybe 2 pounds max.
I want to fish Lowell for cats again. Now that I have gas power I am interested big time. I might have to pick you brain. Ron
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