Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Five years ago today was my first really good day of striper fishing on Lake Norfork. Had caught some earlier but on this day five years ago I caught six nice stripers across from Bidwell point, each one larger than the one before. The sixth striper was a pretty good one. So today I went to the same spot but didn't really mark anything that promising so I went to Float Creek and put out shiners. Quickly caught a couple of small stripers and had numerous tugs on the shiners, but after awhile my back balloon starting moving away so I set the hook and starting pulling. Wasn't a fast fish but when it got close to the boat it took off at a steady pace. I kept pulling on that fish for awhile realizing that this was no small fish, it was a horse, but I finally got it to the boat and it was no small job getting it into the boat. It weighed over 41 pounds but unfortunately it was one of those stripers with whiskers, so after taking a picture, I dumped it back into the lake. That Blue Cat was the second largest fish I have ever caught. I did catch another striper after that. What a difference in how they fight. The striper runs and pulls like mad, the catfish just pulls slowly and steadily. You never know what you might hook into out there and that is the secret, being out there.

12-31

1 of 7 stripers caught today

Depth; 60 ft;

TEMP; 48

Place; Hudson point

Bait; 3/4 oz white with green back binks spoon

Time; 9:30 to 11o clock

Did not mark alot of fish, but when you did some one got a strike!

Happy New Years

Bink

[gotmuddy]

how deep was the catfish??

On Dec 31 I was on the Texas coast fishing for redfish and the water was actually COLDER there. It was 46.6 degrees. Go figure.