Saturday June 23 Fishing Report

[Seth]

Launched the boat and bow fishing most of the day. Shot a couple gar and only seen one bighead on the surface but missed him. We netted a few shad and threw some cut shad out underneath a float and messed with the gar for a while and had a blast. Those things sure do fight, but it's hard to keep them from cutting the line with their teeth when using only 8 pound test.

We drift fished between the islands and the banks on the East side where the turbines are and caught a couple small channels. At dark, we anchor closed to the white line in the heavy current where the turbines are and fished with shad. I landed one fat channel cat about 3 or 4 pounds and that was it. Had one other good hit, but missed it.

Some guys were fishing on the edge of the heavy current right up by the dam and were catching a ton of catfish. They had one that was at 20-25 pounds. The funny part was we watched the agent sitting at the top of the power line watching them for probably two hours. I bet they got a hefty fine.