1st Solo river Flathead trip

I headed to the Trinity just east of Houston . I made a pretty long run to where there was some flow and set up .
I had live sun fish and some that had died for cut bait and the first fish was a 12 pound blue that smoked the cut bait and after hanging up several rods that was all for that spot. I moved to some structure
and added a 10 and 6 pound blue and at almost 11 am I catch a 8.7 pound Flatty, I got hung up some More .
I catch another 12 pound blue and t3 more from 6-8 pounds.
Then at 2:40 a rod goes down hard peeling drag on the way in it hangs up and another rod gets slammed. So I put the hung up one in the rod holder hoping it swims out and grab the other rod and bam same thing it’s hung . The other rod swims free so I swap rods and start bringing it in and the other rod starts taking drag and a handle I attempted to repair snapped and there goes the rod overboard 🤬. The good thing is I get the other one boat side and in the net it was a nice 22 pound Flatty . That river fishing can get intense quick !

Nice work Dewayne! We were planning on Flathead fishing Saturday night but all the lights on the boat malfunctioned so we chased Blues today instead. Jax got him a 43 and dang near broke his PB. I posted the report on my Facebook group since there isn’t much interest anymore in my trip reports here.

Nice! Love to see when people actually catch them. very elusive for me but I will not give up.

I was pretty intimidated by them and never targeted them and would skip our tournament series river events . I went with a friend who runs the tournaments and he taught me the basics . It was basically just fishing and trying to get your bait in front of the structure . It is intense trying to get them away from the structure before they hang you up which happened several time 🤣🤣.