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It's been a long time, but I can finally contribute again.. :)
Just so you know...I live vicariously through you all when you go fishing and post your stories and pictures, so thank you for doing so.
After a long stretch, I was finally able to hit the lake today. I couldn't find the crappie, and got the same feedback from everyone I asked. But around 3-4 pm, I passed a deep pocket of water...depth finder went from 25 ft to 4 ft because of all the shad so basically 20 feet of shad :yikes. Decided to try it, and first fish I caught broke my line and I thought would break my jig rod. 3-4 times as I was reeling up, I snagged a shad in the side because they were so thick.
Pulled out the bass rod with 20 lb line and threw another shiner down. Bam...fat catfish. Next one was a gou, then several catfish and a bigger gou. Finally had one that I was worried would break my heavy line, but I managed to get him up. Big cat that I had somehow snagged in the side so he was swimming away from me as I reeled. It was a heck of a fight. I gave the two gou to a family on the bank, and brought home 6 channel cats. Also, all of them looked huge from stuffing on shad. The big one had 66 crammed in it's belly, from 1 - 3 inches long. Cats aren't my favorite (like crappie), but the fresh feesh was deleeesh! Anyway, here's the trip proof. :) Thinking of trying again tomorrow, but I'm so sore right now that I don't know if I could. lol
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That butcher knife on the table is 12.5 inches long for perspective. The 5 look small, but only because the hog was so big.
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