It's Been A While

well it has been a couple months since my last post the catfish bite just shut down what seemed like it last almost 3 months it was really weird in that time we did allot of crappie fishing with good good numbers on some trips we bank fished 2 Saturdays in a row and caught right around 60 -70 each time out all on jig heads  then me and Robby fished a lake and had a monster day for crappie with HUGE numbers we caught over 120 crappie in about an hour and half or so   with some hitting the 10-11 in mark , the catfish bite has just really started to turn back on lake around the house  within the last couple weeks went out with rob on his boat a few weeks ago anchored up on a spot had 8 good pull downs within 15 min of fishing then a big storm with 60 + mph winds forced us off , me and Cody went out on his boat last weekend to the same lake the same spot and started getting bites immediately when the first fish finally committed it ended up being a nice 18 lb blue cat  then Cody hit a 5 lb channel  about an hour and thirty minutes went by with out a nibble and then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz my same rod that had the 18 lbr on it started screaming again  and let me tell you this fish fought and fought and fought some more it came up next to the boat had a massive head when i first saw it i was thinking that fish is going 45 + lbs   when it went back down it ripped close to 60 yards of line off of my abu 6000 with 48 lb test on it the drag was MAXXED out  finally got him to the boat once again and landed him  it ended up being an awesome 35 lb blue cat man what a fight ! anyways i promise to start keeping this thing updated more often just have had different things going on   anyways tight lines everyone !

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 

rob's boat

well we went down to Richmond yesterday to pick up Rob's new old motor from Loyd got it home took the 110 hp of robs boat which was not to bad but that little 90 hp he got was a heavy son of a bitch lol ended up getting it on and mounted could not hook the tilt trim up because the connections on the 90 were different from the controls he had on there so we got to hook the controls up that came with the 90 up maybe next weekend  hopefully we can get her on the water here in the next few weeks still a few things to pick up depth finder gill net etc etc , last week me and Cody spent a couple days working on his new boat and  melting lead old sinkers wheel weights stuff like that ended up with 70 lbs of lead still waiting on Robby to bring his lead over to melt we will prolly end up with right around 100 lbs of lead when its all said and done now we just need to get a couple river sinker molds and eye's for them and we can get cranking on that

2-12-12

well went to lake brittle only 77 acer's grew up fishing that lake , i was just fishing from the bank today with a buddy from a couple catfish clubs  Vince he meet me out at the lake i was already just walking onto the Pier when he pulled up before he even got to the pier i had thrown the cast net and caught about 70 little "candy shad " shad that are 5 inches and less i through most of them back except for about 20  after re tying some rigs we got cut the tails off of the candies and put them out whole got my 3 rods out and Vince's 1  it was spitting a couple snow flurries which is almost like deer hunting in the snow its just amazing well after a while we began to fish for crappies while we were letting the shad soak  had a big bite on a 1 in crappie jig think it was either a bass or a walleye crappie in that lake are not big at all and that fish had some weight on it after that we reeled the rods up and put fresh bait on and got them back out about 2 pm i called my buddy Brandon told him he should come up so he gets a ride up there and it starts to flurry again i said what the hell did you bring the snow with you for ? now mind you this was after a good few hours with no snow and sunshine he shows up it gets Grey as hell and starts to snow  so he walks out on the pier i was checking out his new reel he had got as he was putting a sinker on his other rod when all of a sudden i heard my clicker go out zzzzz    zzzzz   zzzzzzzzz and then stopped Vince had just finished packing up to head home when this happen i picked the rod up didn't feel nothing set it down 10 seconds later zzzzz zzzzz zzzz  i picked it up felt the fish and set it , knew it was not a big fish  when it came to the top i said damn its a mud cat because i saw alot of yellow on the belly then i saw the orange i said damn that's a big ass yellow perch ! it ate a whole 5 in candy with the tail cut off you can even see the bait hanging out of his mouth in the pic the perch ended up going 14 inches and 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 lbs    20 seconds after i threw the perch back i looked out towards the points i said damn that looks cool with all of that snow blowing across the lake  then it hit us and it was white out condition's it was nuts ! wind blowing 40 mph it was snowing so hard i could not see my truck in the parking lot 40 yards away we packed our shit up and hauled ass back to the truck the temps just plummeted i could not believe how hard it was snowing through our shit in the bed of the truck and down the road we went all the back roads were covered in 1/4 in of snow in 10 minutes or less made it home safe  but had a damn good time and an interesting one to boot here are a few pics     

Vince and i

the only catch of the day on shad wish it had whiskers but at least it was a nice perch

a picture Vince took from his truck right before it got really bad you cannot even see me and Brandon on the pier

Emergency Trip To The James River 2- 4 -12

well the morning started off with me robby and cody going to a fishing flea market in dale city Virginia got there nice and early at 7am when it finally opened we went inside looking for anything that we could use for catfish whether that be crappie jigs to catch crappie and bream for live bait to catfish reels me and cody had found these 2 okuma reels SD 20's used but in decent shape for $10 each robby found a nice almost brand new looking abu garcia 65000 c3 for a good deal well we made our rounds only took about 20 - 30 minutes to see what we need to see and got out of there on the way home i called Hugh to see if he had his clients on any fish yet was still really in the morning mind you he told me they never showed ! i asked if he was on the river he said yea , then i asked who's fishing with him he said no one jokingly  i said we will be down in 2 hours then  Hugh replied come on  so it was a mad dash to the house to get some warm cloths a couple rods and south bound we went got down there at about 1130 am meet Hugh at the slip went for a decent little boat ride  we had several bites but no takers  finally robby ended up hooking up with  one that was running sideways on him ended up going 26.9 lbs nice fish but not the one we were looking for me ,Hugh & cody finally caught a fish each but they were dinks  less than 5 lbs and mine and Hugh's were at almost dark it was a cold rainy day on the river thank god we had the top up the whole time or we would have been soaked ! well getting ready to head back to the slip Hugh made me a bet of $20 i wouldn't ride back to the yacht basin in nothing but my boots and boxers robby said ill match that 20  so damn if i didn't do it it was about a 3 mile run and prolly 33 degrees outside running wide open ! and i was not allowed to sit down had to stand up and hold onto the handle on the console lets just say it was a realllllllly cold ride but it was fun Hugh looked at me and said i cant believe you did that and started to laugh his ass off i told him i had a screw or two loose  but was an awesome time to say the least