I was marking fish Sunday down around 50� at bottom. We was in the process of looking for hybrid to dead stick and decided to just drop down and see what would happen. There�s was a lot of fish in a pretty good area we was moving around in. We got hit several times and finally I hooked up and kept one on to the boat and it was drum. Then my buddy did the same and it too was drum. Was wondering if it was a massive concatenation of drum or just a few and maybe rest of those was cats? I�ve heard in winter they get deep like that and if so how would I go about catching them?

I would have to see a screen shot of your graph .Was their any bait around ?

Yeah there was smaller balls scattered from 5� to the bottom as we moved around using tm. At the bottom the screen would show a cluster bait and fish up to about maybe 5-7� from the floor when we�d go over or they�d come by. The hybrid and sand bass was 20� or less. There�s also been a shad die off but water has gotten back up to the upper 40�s to 50.

I've run into that scenario before. finally found the cats further up the dam. Caught 3 10 pound carp throwing for shad. Threw again and caught 2 more. This was a few years ago.

I wasn�t far from the dam. Maybe 100 yards right next to main creek channel running to it. I�m a bass guy but this time of year I�ll try new things to pass time lol.

I bet most were drum. Drum get in HUGE schools on the winter in deep water. Since both of ya caught one AND you didn�t catch anything else I�m saying drum,

Yeah that�s what I kinda figured. I said let�s try to catch one more and see then boom. There was our one more. We had a couple on a few times that got off. Real light bite on Gulp shad. Just hoping we could could catch some easy big cats in that spot.

That would've made a nice dinner!!