Well it sucked. Le'zero catfish for us around ruark bridge. Puhlenty bass. I hate it when I have to complain about catching bass. I tried drifting the flat from ruark bluff to the swim beach, nothing. No idea what I'm doing. I just kept the boat between 5-10ish feet and dragged our worms and shiners. Then we ran to 39 bridge and had more nothing. I tried the channel side too fishing vertically basically movingly along slowly to see if anything was in the rock along the steeper bank. Again more nothing.
I did hear of a 44lb flathead being caught somewhere around the campground so evidently they are around for some but not this guy. I wanted one 5lb plus cat for each of my boys but it just wasn't for us today. I kinda think it's a little early for the rip rap thing. It seems anytime I've had success doing it it's been hotter than this. I'm not a cat guy so I could be completely wrong though.