Cat Fish

[lonkm]

Any one catching any cats? My brother in law want to go jug fishing and I don't want to put jugs out in a poor spot. I need my sleep!! Thanks Lonnie

[Forsythian]

Hey Lonnie,

I'm thinking about spending the day out of Kdock tomorrow (or maybe Elbow)... if I go, I'll probably put out a couple of jugs while I'm fishing for bass & crappie. I'll let you know how I do.

Ken

[Sam]

Good luck keeping your jug lines away from the gar. I was up around Snapp the other day and I've never seen gar so thick. They were even rolling out in the main channel.

[lonkm]

Thanks for the replys. Looking forward to hearing from you Ken

[crappiefisherman]

Sam what kinda boat do you have??

[Sam]

Sam what kinda boat do you have??

A Tracker TX-17, aluminum, with a 4-stroke Suzuki 50 horse. The Tracker/Suzuki combination is something you won't see very often - I replaced the original Johnson motor a couple of years ago. Dark blue Chevy pickup with a chrome toolbox in the parking lot.

How about you? I wouldn't know you if I saw you, and we probably cross paths on Upper B.S. I think I'm going to K Dock again Monday.

[crappiefisherman]

I have a lite blue older champion python with a 50 horse mercury, pull it with a black 4 door 4x4 hd2500 silverado.I am going sunday am and maybe monday with my father in a black older terry bass boat.

[Sam]

We need those secret OzarkAnglers recognition signals. You hold up two fingers, I'll hold up three, then we both turn our ballcaps around backwards ...........

[Forsythian]

Lonnie, I didn't do any good at all... I put out some jugs on main lake flats between Kdock and Mincy, baited with sunfish. The only action I had was gar, as Sam astutely predicted.

One of these day's I'll figure out the jugging...

Bass fishing wasn't bad though... keepers were few and far between, but there are a ton of 14 inchers.

[Sam]

Bass fishing's been pretty good there. The few times I've tried a Texas-rigged worm I've come up with lots of 14-inchers, as you say. Also a few 17" - I even caught some big ones deep-trolling a plug for walleyes a week or two ago.

I wish there was some way to get rid of those gar or at least cut down on them. My idea is that an acre of water has the capacity to support a certain weight of living things in it - whether it's shad, game fish, gar, or mud turtles. Seems like when there's a ton of gar in every acre, that has to reduce the lake's capacity to support the species we want to fish for.

Biologists might not agree with me, I dunno - but that makes sense to me.