heading to the james river tomorrow

well 4 am cannot come soon enough  ! me robby and cody are hittin the road at 4 am to head south towards the james river  we will be fishing with catfishin carrie tomorrow aboard her toon , looking forward to this trip we might not get much fishing done because of all of the jokes and laughing we will be doing but i know one thing it will be fun  going to go catch some hickory shad in the morning then go on the hunt for catfish !

The Mighty Potomac River 3-16-12

Cannot wait for tomorrow going with my buddy TROY from the odcc catfish club tomorrow on the Potomac River went and got fresh bluegill and crappie today  were going to be hitting in nice and early  and fish hard all day i think we are just going on the hunt for some monsters tomorrow and they are out there suppose to thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon but should be in good shape for the morning and mid day going to have a high of 85 ! looks like we will need to break out the sunscreen in mid march !!!!! that shit is crazy this will be my first trip out to the Potomac this year  im really excited alot of big fish have been caught over the last month and with this warming trend we are hoping tomorrow will be filled with rods getting slammed to the water ripping drag ahhhh cant wait , hopefully will have some nice pics to post up tomorrow night

FIRST CAT FROM THE BANK IN 2012

well went down to a local lake with a buddy and a freind from highschool who i have not seen for almost a year anyways the wind was screaming about 25-30 mph whitcapping on the lake we were fishing for crappie and had brought some cat rods with us  we ended up going to a point i have not fished to much and never have in march steven had some bait to cut up for cats we threw some crappie rods for a bit and i said ok i got to get a cat line in the water i cut the bait up and threw it out put the clicker on walked back to my crappie rod threw it out and heard a click click click and then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz   i ran over to my cat rod fought the fish towards the bank didnt think it was that big got to the bank and it started ripping some drag off got it to the bank brandon said u want me to get him i said yea yea he reached down and put it on the bank i said holy shit that thing has a gut on it we put the fish on the scales brandon said im going to guess 30 lbs i said mmmm maybe 25 put it on the scales and it was 25 lbs 1 oz put the tape on it and it maxed my little 35 in tape out thinking it was around 36 -37 inches took a quick pic and turned her loose only fish we had caught it was a fun time tho anyways heres the pic of it