Hello!  I wanted to give a little story of my fishing trip this past weekend.  I went bass fishing on the Alabama river for spots and large mouth, but I was also planning to try catfishing for the first time in decades.  Well, the bass fishing wasnt going well and I only got one bite which I missed.  So I decided to try catfishing.  Catfishing went worse than bass fishing due to numerous rookie mistakes.  I had problems with the newly spooled catfish line, the wind was blowing, horrible bait selection, etc.  Well, just as I was about to pull the anchor and head to the boat ramp I hear a big commotion behind me.  A school of shad got hammered by what seemed like a school of game fish.  I spun around quickly, grabbed my rod with a spinner bait, and cast right into the ruckus.  Within a few reels of the spinner lure, it was fish on! This guy was fun to fight, mainly due to his running.  Im guessing he was about 5 or 6 pounds, and I believe it's a striper, but not sure. Not a monster by any means, but I was just as happy to catch him! (I was going to upload a photo but it says the file is too big)

 

So what started out to be an unsuccessful fishing trip turned out to be wonderful fishing trip!

 

 

Cool deal, which part of the river were you fishing? I camp for a week at millers ferry every Memorial Day 

TNRiver,

I posted a rely to you but dont see it.  I was up near Montgomery where the Catoma Creek meets the river, near Gunter Hill campground.

Gotcha thanks. I think that is a hybrid Striper/white bass but not 100% sure either. and I bet it was a handful!!! It could be a giant size white bass but Striper are typically more torpedo shaped. You might have caught the state record white bass hahaha

Nice fish, it's a wiper or hybrid striped bass for sure. The shape and broken stripes are a dead giveaway. Several distinct lines below the lateral line indicate it's not a white bass either. 

Nice fish...good fighters

Thanks!  Yes it was fun to catch.  Extremely fast on the line.

 

I'm going back Sunday for more bass and catfishing.  I think I have my previous catfish trip problems corrected and I can see what new problems I encounter. :-)

On 10/18/2017 at 8:15 AM, Ronnie Daniels said:

I was going to upload a photo but it says the file is too big

Use https://postimages.org/

 

 

And nice fish.   Wiper?