Catfish Trip Of 5/1

[straw hat]

A freind and I decided to spend the day trying for some cats. Started at the CC rip rap. Fished 2 hours, water was still clear and very green. Temp was 65. Not one hit. Moved to a second rock rip rap and fished there for an hour and a half. Water temp was 62. Not a hit. So fare so bad!! We decided to go fish the back of a cove we know which would have a lot of water running in.We were using fresh cut bait, minnows and worms. At this cove we caught 6 or 7 nice carp (3 to 10 lbs), one 2 1/2 lb cat and a 6 lb drum. Fun but not enough cats!! My freind caught two nice largemouths on worms so he switched to a green jig he had (didn't bring his bass lures). He caught around 20 bass where that water was coming in, all in less than 4 feet of water. He had 3 keepers with the largest just shy of 3 lbs. We then moved from there to the back of another cove. Again, no more cats (@#*&%^$) but more bass. We caught about 10 more bass with 2 more keepers. These were literally in 2' of water or less as far up the cove as you could fish. Certainly not the day we had planned but none the less it was fun. I think I will go back to crappie for another week or two be fore I give the cats a try again.

[dennis boatman]

...those bass make it hard to fish sometimes...

[kwall]

Dennis, I'm doing my part to control the population, just wish they'd drop length by a half inch