TableRock Trotlines

[Jeremy Rasnick]

No Matter how much fishing pressure is put on TableRock Lake though out the course of a Summer there is always a few nice catfish to be caught. Dad and I sat a Trot Line this weekend in clevenger Cove. We are by far amature Trot-Liners but we did pretty good this weekend. We Caught 5 Cats on our trotline which we had baited with sunfish. 4 Flatheads and 1 small channel cat. The fish on the trotline were on the shallow hooks around 5-10 feet of water.

One of the funnest parts of setting a trot line is catching the bait. A funny thing happened to me while fishing for bait. As I was really in a small sunfish i saw a flash of brown, A really nice smally was chasing my perch. I let him take it but ended up loosing my perch, but for the smallmouth he got a free meal.

Here is a picture of our best flathead of the weeked. For anybody on here who thinks that you have have to be on a muddy lake or a river to trotline for cats, i'd have to disagree.......TableRock is pretty good.

I hope you all enjoy the pictures as well as I enjoyed frying that puppy up for friends and family.

[gonefishin]

Nice fish. What do you reckon he weighed?

[Jeremy Rasnick]

Well, My ol De Liar said 18lbs....My digital scale is either broke from getting wet or out of batteries.

I want to appoligize for posting twice. I had a glitch when trying to attach my picture, and somehow posted twice.

[Kansas Fly Fisher]

Good lookin cat! I bet he tasted just as nice! Thanks for the pictures.

John

[jcoberley]

Enjoy!!!!