Wylie 8-29-16

[charles biggers]

After a week of no fishing, I had to go try again. Put in at Buster Boyd Bridge & headed up river at daylight. For about an hour, I could not mark anything that looked like fish or bait.

About 8:30 I finally marked a big school of perch close at Mill creek. Bites were fast on minnows & gold spoons in 22'. Left them biting at 10.

Total count was 1 crappie, 6 cats & 35 perch. All the perch were small to medium.

Hope to go to Monticello later this week.

[sinkermaker]

Glad you were able to get out and catch some. Thanks for sharing

[SeaRay]

Charles, what do you fish for at Monticello? We have done well on Perch and Cats, never really crappie fished that lake but it should be good for them too.

[ofishlbizzness]

Way to go Mr. Charles. Glad you keepin the perch population in check now that the Dawgg is down for a while. We fished Stumpy Pond Sat. p.m. and only got 2 perch the whole time. Strange aint it.

[uncle remus]

good deal Charles glad you got on um for a while
thanks for the report. gonna hafta get my nc. license
so I can fish north of b/b bridge I think bigdawgg done
caught all of um down south

[charles biggers]

To answer SeaRay's question, We usually fish for blue cats at Monticello. A lot of blues can be caught drifting & bottom fishing. Many years ago, before perch showed up, we trolled for crappies but never was there at the right time.

A friend was there this last sat. He caught 52 cats. The wind died so he used his trolling motor to move around just like we troll for crappies but was using cut bait & a small split shot & hook. All his cats were small.

Usually, I catch more cats bottom fishing in 50 to 70' using cut baits. Our largest cat to date is 44 lbs.

[smoothlures]

To answer SeaRay's question, We usually fish for blue cats at Monticello. A lot of blues can be caught drifting & bottom fishing. Many years ago, before perch showed up, we trolled for crappies but never was there at the right time.

A friend was there this last sat. He caught 52 cats. The wind died so he used his trolling motor to move around just like we troll for crappies but was using cut bait & a small split shot & hook. All his cats were small.

Usually, I catch more cats bottom fishing in 50 to 70' using cut baits. Our largest cat to date is 44 lbs.

I have talked to quite a few folks that do that. Either unweighted or very little weight with cut bait drifted out the back of the boat for catfish.

[STUMP HUNTER]

Good report and a nice morning catch.