Had a fun day today... no monsters, and no cats.
We started at Old City Lake, fishing around the bridge and boulders for cats and bait... Had one cat rod rigged up with twin circle hooks, the other with a single. Had livers on the single and bluegill parts on the double.
Caught a couple small gills (one is the unfortunate soul pictured above) and the others we released (after keeping them in a bucket with lake water for a while).
Fished this spot for 2 hours with livers and cut bait and no cats... We had what I imagine to be a curious turtle bump the liver rod a couple times and then nothing....
SO.... we decided to go upstream into the main tributary to the lake, Falling Water River. Found a small turnoff and a beautiful little fishing spot.
Here the panfish fishing was hot, but for some idiot reason, I didn't get out the cat rods and throw some livers into the middle. We weren't planning on really doing any fishing there, just stopping by on our way to another lake. But, as things go, we stayed and fished until night time.
Left there after catching some nice shellcrackers and bluegill and headed for the other lake...
Set up there, fished one spot for an hour with not a single bite on worms, livers, or cutbait (any species).
Moved to the dam, fished shallow and deep, big gobs of crawlers and livers, nada.
I grabbed the ultralight and put a stick bobber with a neon light on it, piece of crawler and managed 2 7 inch gills before we left. The boy was tired after 6.5 hours of fishing and traveling and so was I.
In a state with unbelievable catfishing, I can't seem to buy one on public waters... Mind boggling.
Still, great day off, and we found a couple new spots. Will be back after those cats very soon.