Saturday, my dad and I went fishing for a little while. We started out fishing this rocky stretch leading up to a point. I was fishing rattletrap, doing a lot of pause and bumps off the rocks hoping entice a smallmouth. I felt a grab and the line took off. I was thinking "alright, got me a smallmouth!" I get the fish closers to the boat, it ended up being a 4 pound catfish. The %$#? :-?

I decided to eat that sucker for breaking my heart. ;D

We end up catching 3 spots and a catfish in 5 hours of fishing. It was about all we could manage Saturday. I'll get the picture of the catfish up soon. We also had boat problems Saturday that forced us to take the boat to the shop.  >

I haven't been able catch a bass over 2 pounds all spring. This is very unusual for me. In past years I always catch 3-5 pounds in spring, then all smaller fish in summer months. Weird.

On Cherokee?  Reports I've been seeing say throw plastics and topwater.

I hope to head down that way next week for a day.  Have a tourney there on 5/22.

Yes, this is on Cherokee.