Had 3+ inches of rain last night. The bream were fired up. Got a nice mess  for my boss. And a bonus bass too.

Caught this 11 1/2 inch shiner and threw him out for awhile.  No takers . The lake used to be full of these and bigger. I caught one that was 13 1/2 when I was a teen.

Several "other" fish this weekend.

That catfish is extraordinary. Is it an albino, or just a pale fish from muddy water?

32 minutes ago, Tim Kelly said:

That catfish is extraordinary. Is it an albino, or just a pale fish from muddy water?

It didn't have pink eyes, so I don't know if it counts as a true albino, but it was certainly white and not just washed out, the water is pretty clear on that lake.

Very cool. Have you caught them there before, or was it a freak catch?

3 hours ago, Tim Kelly said:

Very cool. Have you caught them there before, or was it a freak catch?

I've probably never caught 10 catfish total of any kind from this lake and certainly no white ones. I know they did a prize for a palomino trout this spring, but I didn't hear anything about them stocking a white channel cat.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I've probably never caught 10 catfish total of any kind from this lake and certainly no white ones. I know they did a prize for a palomino trout this spring, but I didn't hear anything about them stocking a white channel cat.

You didn't hear about the million dollar prize catfish program...........

 

 

 

 

 

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Someone probably dumped it in the lake after it outgrew their aquarium.  They are VERY common in the pet industry. 

8 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

W/hushpuppies, a Coke, and the ketchup bottle handy, thank you.

No weight...didn't really want him in the kayak with me.  For scale, you can see the blade bait in the dorsal.

#mikelongstyle

Caught this catfish off a crappie jig. Landed my PB crappie from my kayak too (details on 

 

My final fish of 2019. Caught crawling a coolbaits underspin with a keitech 3.3 painfully slow over some shallow rocks.
 

 

Turns out she was gorging on young of the year catfish and gizzard shad.

 

 

What a great way to end 2019

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

What a great way to end 2019

It's 1:00 AM here, I'm looking at this and can't have it. Now that's not fair.

First fish of 2020 a tiny bluegill about 5 pm January 1. Ended up jigging up a dozen or so white bass and took home 5. And witnessed a double eagle! 

You still getting it done @TnRiver46!!

I had the pleasure of taking fellow forum member @galyonj out for a short evening boat ride, we got into some white bass in a raging torrent

53 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I had the pleasure of taking fellow forum member @galyonj out for a short evening boat ride, we got into some white bass in a raging torrent

Once we taught your starter to respect our authority, you mean.

 

I had a blast. We gotta do that again. Next time I'm bringing smaller stuff so them white bass can actually get a mouth around it.

56 minutes ago, galyonj said:

Once we taught your starter to respect our authority, you mean.

 

I had a blast. We gotta do that again. Next time I'm bringing smaller stuff so them white bass can actually get a mouth around it.

Ah yes I almost forgot. To all reading this, Ignore the warning that says "do not strike with metal object" on your starter. Especially when you are drifting downstream of the boat launch in 33,000 cfs of current ........

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Ah yes I almost forgot. To all reading this, Ignore the warning that says "do not strike with metal object" on your starter. Especially when you are drifting downstream of the boat launch in 33,000 cfs of current ........

I wouldn't say that was a warning so much as maybe a handy tip.

 

One doesn't want to make a habit of striking electromechanical objects if they can help it, but a little convincing is in order if that object is being recalcitrant.

34 minutes ago, galyonj said:

I wouldn't say that was a warning so much as maybe a handy tip.

 

One doesn't want to make a habit of striking electromechanical objects if they can help it, but a little convincing is in order if that object is being recalcitrant.

"Emergency only" haha