Catfish In The Coves/bays Or...........not?

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We fished LOTO a couple of weeks ago. The river (lake) was a madhouse with the spoonbillers so we stuck to the coves. We tried rip rap, cliffs, mud banks, channels leading into the bays and multiple different depths and had one nibble in maybe 6 hours of fishing. A friend of mine went down there the next weekend and said they hammered blue fishing a deeper hole against a bluff in the river. Did we just pick a crappy day or should we have stayed out of the bays and focused on the river more?

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Ya gotta just keep moving until you figure out a location pattern.

As a general rule a good spot will give up a fish or three within the first 15-20 minutes.

I like to start near the backend of a large creek/cove and work my way towards the main lake until something happens. The shallower you can catch them the easier they are to pattern. Once you start to recognize the "type of spots" that they are hanging around then you can run to other creeks/coves/or mainlake spots and hit similar areas.

Just don't spend too much time soaking bait in any area unless you are getting some action. Cats aren't picky, if they are there then they'll let you know pretty quick, even if you aren't doing everything exactly right.

You'll naturally start to refine things once you start catching a few. Ya have to realize that it's gonna take you a few CONSECUTIVE days on the water to get dialed in good.....Ya gotta pay your dues.

Forget about watching or listening to where the Cat Pros are fishing....Do your own thing, stay after them, and you'll be posting up pics of nice blues/flats/channels before Easter.

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We did ok this past weekend. We never did try to catfish any bays/coves. We caught a couple nice blues fishing right up against the rock walls near the oarhouse in deep water and then anchored right before dark on a flat and caught some channels. We were sitting in 4 feet of water and it dropped off quick in the channel to close to 40.