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The water continues to go up, down and back up.  I believe it is cresting today and will start going back down again.

I went out on the 19th of September and didn’t have too much luck.  I had a terrible time catching bait.  I spent 2 hours throwing a cast net and only had about 8 small shad to show for my trouble.  The water had cleared up quite a bit and I was sure that the skipjack would be biting.  No such luck.  All of my “normal” spots produced absolutely nothing.  So I went fishing with my 8 small shad.  I ended up catching a 5 lb blue and a 7lb Flathead.  I did lose one other fish that I estimate in the 15-20lb range.  Got him all the way to the boat and he got off just before I could see him.

I decided to go out this past Tuesday (Sept. 29th) and ended up having not too bad of a day, although nothing of much size.  Overall, it was a very slow day.  I had a little trouble getting bait but I ended up with a good supply of small 4″ shad.  The water had come up so much that all the wing dikes were under water, so casting for skipjack wasn’t a possibility. The logs and trash in the water was real bad.  I really had to be careful driving the boat, as I just had my prop repaired a couple weeks ago.  I fished for 4 hours and only had a 5lb Flathead to show for my efforts.  That is, until I fished my last spot, which was a big cut.  This cut is large enough to where I can anchor in the back current going back to the main river.  In this last spot I caught a small blue and flathead (2 lbs a piece), a 5 lb Flathead and a 20 lb Blue.  They all came out of deeper 70 foot water.

So, like I said, it was a slow day until the last spot.  5 fish doesn’t sound too bad but when they are mostly lumped in the last spot, that’s a lot of “slack” time.

Here’s a few pictures! Until next time…

Shane