07-19-2018, 09:12 PM
[#0000ff]Last week I failed to get the fixin's for some smoked kitty...due to a hole in my basket. (My excuse and I'm stickin' wit it.) Got a new basket and hit the south marina this time for an all species session...as long as all species turned out to be catfish. Done deal.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched about 6:30. Air temp a nice 60 and water temp 78. When I drove off about 11 am it was 90 degrees and climbing. Water temp only went up a degree or so, but probably more later.
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[#0000ff]I got out of the channel with bait and lures unmolested. Had some intel that the fish were most active in about 14 to 16 fow. So I angled kinda NW out of the channel and moved to deeper water. About the time I hit 10 feet I cut the electric motor and put out a LHBE minnow on one rod and started pitching a blue shad plastic on the other.
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[#0000ff]About the second cast with the plastic I went bendo on my first kitty. Released it about the time the bait rod line clip popped and I hooked into kitty number two. This one had gulped the hook so I cut it off and added the fish to the basket. While I retied I dropped over a new purple glitter flig with a small minnow on it...and then put out the bait rod again as soon as I had a new hook on it. Wham...Bam! The flig rod took a deep bend and then the line popped on the bait rod. Double trouble. First of several times today. Some problems are better to have than others. Netted them both. 4 fish within about 10 minutes. And then it got better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I took 2 full bags of minnows today...each with a "long dozen"...13 to 15 minnows. Went through all of them...only missing a few hits. Almost a perfect hit to hookup ratio on the fligs as usual. Tried several new colors and they all worked. Also caught a few more cats on plastic and some on flig and crawler. As long as I was in their zone they tore me up. Poor me.
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[#0000ff]Saw a boat anchored right up against the rock dike down by the feed lot (hog farm). Saw them score a couple of fish in close. Talked to them later at the ramp and they said they had caught limits of good sized cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No boils today, but did see some brief "slurps". And the only birds I saw were large groups of gulls flying back over the dike from chowing down in the feed lot. Didn't even see any terns picking shadlets off the surface. But I did see quite a few groups of shad on sonar in different areas and different depths.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I easily caught a couple dozen cats today, keeping my legal limit of eight. I released a lot that were bigger than some I kept. Three were kept so I could recover my fligs from their innards later. Greedy little buggers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I nosed my tube up onto the ramp I heard "Fish on!" Looked over to see an old gent sitting on a bucket...bendo on something between the bank and the dock. Wow. Turned out to be a nice sized cat. Then, before I could get packed up and headed for the cleaning station he proceeded to bring in several small wipers...about 7 or 8 inches.
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[#0000ff]I had seen the wiperettes working over something small as I launched earlier. Back at the ramp I could see several small schools of what looked to be spottail shiners rolling all over the algae covered rocks. I'm guessing that if there are a lot more of those shiners in the harbor there are probably some predators around as well.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fish cleaning station was clean and functional. Had my smokitty fixin's in plastic bags and on my way right about 11. Didn't completely beat the heat but sitting in that water is way better than yardwork at home.
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[#0000ff]Launched about 6:30. Air temp a nice 60 and water temp 78. When I drove off about 11 am it was 90 degrees and climbing. Water temp only went up a degree or so, but probably more later.
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[#0000ff]I got out of the channel with bait and lures unmolested. Had some intel that the fish were most active in about 14 to 16 fow. So I angled kinda NW out of the channel and moved to deeper water. About the time I hit 10 feet I cut the electric motor and put out a LHBE minnow on one rod and started pitching a blue shad plastic on the other.
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[#0000ff]About the second cast with the plastic I went bendo on my first kitty. Released it about the time the bait rod line clip popped and I hooked into kitty number two. This one had gulped the hook so I cut it off and added the fish to the basket. While I retied I dropped over a new purple glitter flig with a small minnow on it...and then put out the bait rod again as soon as I had a new hook on it. Wham...Bam! The flig rod took a deep bend and then the line popped on the bait rod. Double trouble. First of several times today. Some problems are better to have than others. Netted them both. 4 fish within about 10 minutes. And then it got better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I took 2 full bags of minnows today...each with a "long dozen"...13 to 15 minnows. Went through all of them...only missing a few hits. Almost a perfect hit to hookup ratio on the fligs as usual. Tried several new colors and they all worked. Also caught a few more cats on plastic and some on flig and crawler. As long as I was in their zone they tore me up. Poor me.
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[#0000ff]Saw a boat anchored right up against the rock dike down by the feed lot (hog farm). Saw them score a couple of fish in close. Talked to them later at the ramp and they said they had caught limits of good sized cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No boils today, but did see some brief "slurps". And the only birds I saw were large groups of gulls flying back over the dike from chowing down in the feed lot. Didn't even see any terns picking shadlets off the surface. But I did see quite a few groups of shad on sonar in different areas and different depths.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I easily caught a couple dozen cats today, keeping my legal limit of eight. I released a lot that were bigger than some I kept. Three were kept so I could recover my fligs from their innards later. Greedy little buggers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I nosed my tube up onto the ramp I heard "Fish on!" Looked over to see an old gent sitting on a bucket...bendo on something between the bank and the dock. Wow. Turned out to be a nice sized cat. Then, before I could get packed up and headed for the cleaning station he proceeded to bring in several small wipers...about 7 or 8 inches.
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[#0000ff]I had seen the wiperettes working over something small as I launched earlier. Back at the ramp I could see several small schools of what looked to be spottail shiners rolling all over the algae covered rocks. I'm guessing that if there are a lot more of those shiners in the harbor there are probably some predators around as well.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fish cleaning station was clean and functional. Had my smokitty fixin's in plastic bags and on my way right about 11. Didn't completely beat the heat but sitting in that water is way better than yardwork at home.
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