Randy and Reed Johnson have fished with me a lot. It seems like we always get into something.
Saturday we knew the adds were against us. NO FLOW below Chickamauga Dam until 1 pm. We started at 10 am anyway. As you'd expect, bite was totally non-existent. We headed up to the Dam a little before 1 pm to try and catch some eaters.
First fish... Reed reels in one that hovered at 25 lbs., on light tackle so it took "some minutes." They turned the water on and we started drifting.
Once the flow got settled out fish were on fire! We smoked 'em... I always catch lots of eater channel cats in October, but we were finding great numbers of quality blues (5 - 10 lbs.) as well. Reed caught another 20-pound-plus fish... and we broke off a couple I'm sure were big fish.
It was a wonderful afternoon that felt more like a May catfish bite than it did October. Caught most on chicken... some on cut bait. Life is good and gettin' better every day.
Saturday we knew the adds were against us. NO FLOW below Chickamauga Dam until 1 pm. We started at 10 am anyway. As you'd expect, bite was totally non-existent. We headed up to the Dam a little before 1 pm to try and catch some eaters.
First fish... Reed reels in one that hovered at 25 lbs., on light tackle so it took "some minutes." They turned the water on and we started drifting.
Once the flow got settled out fish were on fire! We smoked 'em... I always catch lots of eater channel cats in October, but we were finding great numbers of quality blues (5 - 10 lbs.) as well. Reed caught another 20-pound-plus fish... and we broke off a couple I'm sure were big fish.
It was a wonderful afternoon that felt more like a May catfish bite than it did October. Caught most on chicken... some on cut bait. Life is good and gettin' better every day.
