7-16-24 Weekly Meet up

[gillchaser999]

It’s been a few weeks since my fishing buddy and I met up to chase whatever we can find .
With mid 90’s predicted , it was in the upper 80’s when we met at our favorite lake .
The park we chose was for its shade opportunities. .
We fished from around 11 to almost 2:30 .
My buddy caught about fifteen small gills and a couple small bass .
Constantly changing techniques and baitsi was able to land 25 , mostly a variety of panfish , a couple chunky green sunfish , a small bass and the best fighter of the day , a catfish that hit a bison Trout Magnet .
I’m not sure what kind of catfish I caught . The coloration and shape made me think it was a channel cat, but it had a small mouth . A smaller mouth than any catfish I’ve ever caught before.
Put up a nice fight on my 4’11 Major Craft Finetail glass rod paired up with a Shimano Soare bb500spg spooled with Daiwa J braid and a 3# Floroclear leader .
The bank where I was fishing was a few feet above the waterline and I wasn’t sure the 3# leader would hold . But I waited for a paise in the catfish’s flopping and grabbed the line once I rod lifted it onto the bank .
I’m glad I had the braid and heavier leader today .
When I fished boat ramps , I simply slid big fish up the ramp before grabbing them . It’s not that easy bank fishing .
I need to start taking my net with me . It was in the car .