08-26-2009, 09:00 AM
John Coley and his wife Stacy traveled south from Limestone, Tenn. (near Greeneville) to fish with me today.<br /><br />John hasn&#39;t been home very long from a tour of duty in Iraq. He said he read of bunch of my reports on the Internet while he was across the ocean, and he was itching for some catfish. We scratched it.<br /><br />Really low flow this AM... about 11,000 cfs all morning and we struggled, just catching a few squeaker blues and a handful of hard-fightin&#39; channel cats here and yon in the AM. Finally at Noon they cranked up generators to 26,000 and that made some better blues hungry. We fished long and hard today, nearly ten hours. We never found the Mother Lode. But we nickel &amp; dimed fish all day long, especially the afternoon. Most were released to grow, but a good mess of cats were lucky enough to win a free ride back to Limestone, Tenn. today. And that means life is good and gettin&#39; better everyday!