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Anybody catching blues out there these days? If so, how are you catching them? I've been fishing some at night with shad and chicken livers on or near the bottom of a creek ledge with very little success. Even tried drifting one day in the main channel and zero'd out. :confused:
are ya lake fishing or river fishing? I have been catching a few out on the lower missouri river, near a warm water discharge. using shad guts, cut shad and skipjack. nuttin big though. a friend of mine has been doin good on the misissippi near st louis. same bait. he has been finding them near the deep holes with light current. the blues in the lakes here in missouri are really stacked up under the shad schools.find a wind blown cove and watch your graph for big balls of shad, then look for huge stacks of fish on the bottom. key areas are mouths of windy coves and the ledges and points around the channel of the coves. don't stop to fish until ya find a crapload of catfish underneath schools of shad. and use fresh bait out of the water you are fishing.
Hey South Point, Thanks for the great advise! When you find the shad schools with fish underneath them, how do you fish for them? Do you anchor or drift? Seems like when I pass by a good school of fish and turn the boat around, I can't ever get back on them.
well, I usually fish the rivers in the winter, and I anchor down because the bait and the catfish are usually relating to current breaks. usually deep holes with lighter current although sometimes I catch fish up on shallow flats in the winter.
when I do fish a lake in the winter, I like to try to find fish on either side of a point, so I can anchor on the point and fish the sides and the tip of the point.kinda like fishing 3 spots at once. if there are some stick-ups to tie off to and hold the boat steady,i go that rout first. if not, I will drop my first anchor about 100ft off shore, directly in line with where I want the back of my boat to face. then I head back in to shore and drop another anchor directly where I want the front of the boat to be. then I back off shore some and tighten the 2 ropes, one on the front and one on the back. this will hold your boat fairly steady.
slab-in-the-box. I don't know your river situation, but I fish a river here in Oklahaoma, (the Wa****a), that is a wadeable and 4 wheel crossing type of river. It has TONS of holes. I fish brushpiles, back-currents, logs, stumps, and deep holes. Any place I can find some calm water off of a current I usually hammer em. I personally pretty much use live bait, perch, and an occasional shad cut up. My brother-in-law almost uses almost exclusively peeled crawdad tails and we both do pretty good, especially in the winter. Lot's of 5 to 20lb er's, an occasional 30, a rare 30-40 and I have had one 50lb er in the last 8yrs, we get some big Flatheads mixed in there and an occasional Channel also. He fishes one certain part of the river where he has some property and I travel up and down about a 5 mile stretch. The water is generally semi-clear but if it rains any it gets that red tint to it because of the red dirt down that way but it doesn't slow down the fishing any. It's a sandy bank and bottom, it's just the snag's you have to watch out for, but that is where the Big-uns are.Thumbs Up I've got a 7 1/2 ft Catfish rod from Bass Pro, a 6600 Rocket Ambassador reel, 30lb stren fishing line, usually a 4/0 Eagle Claw steel circle hook and depending on the current, I use barrell weights, 1/2 to 2 ounces. If the current is real fast I use a 2 ounce flat weight. I use my own little set up as far as the hook, weight, and leader goes and it has worked really good for the last 8 yrs. Hope that helps a little, probably a little more info than you were looking for, but that's my setup.
That is spelled Wa****a
Yeah, I spelled it out and it spells but for some reason when I hit reply the asterisk's come up. Try this, Wash-ita. Ohhhhh, I see why. Look what the word is blocked out by the asterisk's.Quote:
Originally Posted by cricket george
Catching them in deep holes on the Ohio River. At the head of deep holes (at least 60ft) with whole/half shad on the bottom. Several 40+ lb fish have been caught this winter so far.