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Tony Miller and I headed out on Thursday afternoon around 4:15pm for a few hours of fishing.  Fortunately shad were easy to come by and we had 20-25 in around 15 minutes.  Off we headed to fish a few spots on the revetment bank.

It didn’t take long and I had 4 & 5 lb blues in the boat.  Meanwhile Tony was sure he had casted inside a well-placed jar.

We hit a revetment spot right on a big cut.  Tony caught a 10 lb Blue catfish here.  I turned around and caught a similar fish at 10 lbs also.  Then I caught a 13 lber right after that.

Our last spot was on a small cut in the revetment bank.  The current was moving good here.  I finally got a decent one on.  Of course, a couple minutes into the fight he crossed Tony’s line and it all went downhill from there.  As he pulled against Tony’s line, he hung up the entire rig in the rocks.  So I got to the point where I could no longer get him in, as Tony’s line was hung up and keeping me from being able to gain on the fish.  The Blue was just out of reach.  He was on the surface and was in the low 20 lb range.  A nice fish and I would have liked a picture of him.  I finally pulled hard enough and it broke my 40 lb test leader.  Oh well, he missed his photo opportunity.

Over all we had a great few hours of fishing.  Looking forward to getting out again!

Shane