who's catching

Two small brim and 3 dinks. kept the skunk away, just barely. Looks like I'm not the only one not doing much.

WHERE ARE THE POSTS!!!!

I'm with ya. Been stinking it up in 2017. I have not caught a crappie since Christmas. Been on the James 3 times, not even a sniff. We have caught some catfish, up to 40 pounds for my brother in law Shawn. So the BPS Big Cat Quest came to town yesterday on the James River. Running out of Osborne landing. Can start fishing at 6am. Scales open at 8am. They payout 4 places every hour until 3pm. $400, $300, $200, $100. They also post random "target fish" slots, that pay $100. Typically, 1-1.25# or 3-3.25 or 5-5.5. They stay open until claimed. So we try to catch some small fish in hope to fill a slot. Well the fishing was awful for us. We had two small fish at 11:30. Road to weigh in to see what was happening. At 11:55, there were only two boats tied up to weigh a fish. So I put a little fellow in my bailing cup and headed to the scale. Fish weighed 0.75 pound (they wrote it down wrong as 0.45). Anyway, this little guy took 3rd place for the 11am-Noon hour. 4th place went unclaimed. Guys are reluctant to come from way down river to weigh in until late in the day, so a little luck and timing can sometimes pay off.

Here is our $200 fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNt30sAHgJI

All money is paid out at the end of the day. The Weigh master Ken Freeman made quite the spectical out of my fishing catch prowess. He also gave me a new landing net (bait net) to commemorate the smallest fish to ever win money in his tournaments! Proud moment for me.

Me and my money fish are in the photos on the BCQ facebook page. I"m ready for next year now.

https://www.facebook.com/Big-Cat-Que...PAGES_TIMELINE

Good stuff right there. Don't spill the funyuns.

The best I could manage Saturday in the cold rain on the NWR was 5 keepers.

The water temperature had fallen from 60 the week before to 48 and the water was low and muddy, but rising hard.

It will get better, but we need a few warm days.

I have fished for cat, part of my trips this year,at least 3 times. Have not caught ANY!!!

I was their Sat till it started raining. I only caught 5 crappie with three being keepers. I was off the water by 9:30. Hey Pa boat what type boat are you fishing out of. I fish out of a white G3 alum boat. Give me a shout if you see me on the water.

15 foot Lowes aluminum with 25hp Johnson.

WE are. Well my fishing buddies are anyway. I did luck out with a surprise Brown Trout, first one I ever caught. Vernon had a 16 inch slab last week and Kenny had this 15 inch Sunday. A lake somewhere in Central Virginia. Up and down water temps and the dang wind are not helping. No fish were harmed in these pictures, all released to make another smile.

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That is a great looking Brown trout. Know this is crappie site. Nice releasing them all too. Jake.

I'd say in the last month, me and a couple of my buddies have caught 100 or more keeper size here in Norfolk. I've missed the 15" mark about 6 or 7 times by less than a half inch.

I'm glad someone is catching a few. Went Saturday for a few hours - not one bump. I blame it on the weather...

Yea its a crappie site. And one of those was actually caught crappie fishing. The others were caught while we was fishing for something else but I don't care what bites as long as something tugs my line.

Nice looking trout. I've never caught one.

My buddies are coming over Sunday to fish. I'll let y'all know if they are still biting here. I just had ankle surgery yesterday, so I'm going to miss most of the spring action.

Attachment 261773 We caught a few in a pond in Powhatan today.

My buddies had 9 nice keepers today. A few were over 14"