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I got away on Wednesday morning to do a little catfishing after I dropped the kids off at school.  The water temp is dropping fast.  It was 65 degrees.  I found a few decent shad and set off to find some catfish!

I pretty much spent my time on the wing dikes.  Fished some downstream sides and upstream sides.  I caught 1, 2, 7, 8, and 10 lbers for my efforts.  The 2lber was a flathead.  Finally on my last spot I anchored just upstream of the dike.  I hooked up my biggest shad and tossed it out there.  I also put a couple other poles out with smaller offerings.  After about 10 minutes my pole with the big shad went down hard.  He took off and the fight was on.  There was some decent 12 ounce current in this spot, so it wasn’t easy.  I managed to get the net under him and he weighed in right at 30 lbs.  I was hoping for a nice 30 lb Flathead but I’ll take a blue catfish if I have too!  It’s always nice for the last fish to be the best.  Of course, you will take them any way you can get them!

Another great day on the river.

Shane