Posted By: Catfish Tim
Pre-frontal Bite was on fire - 01/12/23 12:24 AM
There has been a lot of talk on the TFF lately about the bite being slow. BCB and I were out Monday and didn't get a fish in the boat until 2:30 in the afternoon. I am lucky to be able to adjust my work schedule so I can sort of work around fishing instead of the other way around. That is only true to a point. I have an extended run of road trips for the next 8 week. I will be gone for 7 of those weeks. So I'm trying to get out this week when I can.
I hit the water this afternoon around 1:00. Got some decent shad and a couple magnums in 30 feet of water. And it was time to fish...Wind was moderate out of the south and the later it got the stronger it blew... I set up drifting South to North and waited after about 20 minutes my phone rang. It was BCB. We chatted and I hung up. Before I could put the phone down two rods bend over and start screaming. I pick up the first one and I can tell it's a solid fish. I work pretty fast because I'm watching the other rod keep getting pulled down and I don't want it to get all tangled with the other lines. I get the first one to the boat and in the net and it's a toad! Put him on the deck and grab the other rod. I get him to the surface and I see that he is tangled in almost all of my other lines. And I'm okay with that... I have a pig on the deck! I get both fish weighed. The big one was 47 pounds and the trouble maker was 23. I got them burped and got 'em back in the water and then turned my attention to the mess I had. IT took me almost an hour to get everything cut, retied, rebaited and back in the water. During all that I got one more fish at about 18 pounds. Went back south, ran that drift again and had the same thing happen. A double takedown and a tangled mess. I landed both fish, burped them, got 'em back in the water happy and healthy and I had to get home so I threw the mess in the bottom of the boat and headed for the barn. What a fun afternoon. 5 fish for a total of 137 pounds. And I left them biting. I have no doubt that the bite would have continued until the sun went down or the front blew through.
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I hit the water this afternoon around 1:00. Got some decent shad and a couple magnums in 30 feet of water. And it was time to fish...Wind was moderate out of the south and the later it got the stronger it blew... I set up drifting South to North and waited after about 20 minutes my phone rang. It was BCB. We chatted and I hung up. Before I could put the phone down two rods bend over and start screaming. I pick up the first one and I can tell it's a solid fish. I work pretty fast because I'm watching the other rod keep getting pulled down and I don't want it to get all tangled with the other lines. I get the first one to the boat and in the net and it's a toad! Put him on the deck and grab the other rod. I get him to the surface and I see that he is tangled in almost all of my other lines. And I'm okay with that... I have a pig on the deck! I get both fish weighed. The big one was 47 pounds and the trouble maker was 23. I got them burped and got 'em back in the water and then turned my attention to the mess I had. IT took me almost an hour to get everything cut, retied, rebaited and back in the water. During all that I got one more fish at about 18 pounds. Went back south, ran that drift again and had the same thing happen. A double takedown and a tangled mess. I landed both fish, burped them, got 'em back in the water happy and healthy and I had to get home so I threw the mess in the bottom of the boat and headed for the barn. What a fun afternoon. 5 fish for a total of 137 pounds. And I left them biting. I have no doubt that the bite would have continued until the sun went down or the front blew through.
