Kayak Trip Report, 8 Mile Creek (Lake Catoma)

**Ditch Basser** · 07-05-2021, 10:24 AM

I fished Sunday for the first time in a couple weeks and decided to return to 8 mile creek. I looked at the bridge off CR 1352, but it didn't look any better so I returned to CR 1422. That cliff (small hill really) hasn't gotten any better. I fished the first couple hours with very little luck, but finally found an area with fish stacked up in about 14 feet of water. I tried a little bit of everything, but best bait ended up being a 1/32oz roadrunner head with a 1" Pink/Chartreuse body Slider fished single pole with a slow retrieve 8 to 10 foot deep. Once I found the right combination it was one fish after another, but most were under 9". I kept a limit of Crappie that were between 9 1/2 and 10 1/2 inches and returned a couple hundred short fish. Great day on the water.

Visibility was about 18 inches and 78 degrees at daylight.

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**DockShootinJack** · 07-05-2021, 02:37 PM

That is a nice mess of fish

**Damion Kidd** · 07-05-2021, 07:02 PM

I fished it today but must have got in the short fish you threw back. Lol. First fish was over 14 then a bunch of shorts and a few around 10. And yeah the bank just isn’t getting any better.

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**flintcreek** · 07-05-2021, 07:22 PM

Ditch throwing back a couple of hundred short fish would make my day. Much less catching a mess like that. My son has been telling me he has seen what he thinks is crappie stacked up on his fish finder on Catoma in the 8 Mile Creek area. I may have to try to get down there and with him and see if we can catch some crappie if I can get him to quit chasing green carp. Great Job!

**Bob D** · 07-05-2021, 07:52 PM

Great outing DB, glad you got some fillets the size you like.

**Ditch Basser** · 07-05-2021, 08:02 PM

Bob D, fried them up for supper tonight, all hot and crispy!!

I'll say one thing about Catoma, great tasting fish much like Madison County Lake.

**catchNgrease** · 07-05-2021, 09:26 PM

All specks to boot.

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**"G"** · 07-06-2021, 04:13 AM

Nice mess of fish

**RogerA** · 07-06-2021, 05:36 AM

Congrats on a good trip!

**Slabprowler** · 07-06-2021, 05:39 AM

Congrats on a great trip!

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