Location: Browns Ferry - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Air Temperature: 75-85ish degrees
Water Temperature: 86 degrees in boils
Lake Level: 555.85'
Weather Conditions: South - South West 7 mph.  Hot, but good weather.

Catfishing with Kyle Macomber.  Had trouble catching good baitfish again today.  All shad were very small.  Caught 1 gizzard shad for bait in over 1 hour of trying.

Got to Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant at 9AM and fished the discharge water in 32'-37' of water.  Fished the drop off of the underwater gas line.  Depth changes from 24' to 32' fast.  Fished with shad and also raw shrimp.  Kyle caught one stripper.  We bounced bottom for about 2 hours and 40 minutes and caught 15 catfish.  Biting and striking upwards much of the time.  Mostly blues, but some channels.  Shrimp did just as good as shad.  Had trolling motor trouble, so left early because couldn't troll anymore.  Overall good day!

 

Location: Browns Ferry - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Air Temperature: 72-85ish degrees
Water Temperature: 82 degrees in boils

                                 76 degrees in main lake
Lake Level: 555.84'
Weather Conditions: Light West wind, low humidity, sunny.

Catfishing with Dad.  Launched at Cowford Landing to try to get bait.  Had a hard time finding baitfish again, so had to use frozen shad.  Fished 32-37' of water along the boil line on the discharge from Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.

Started the day by anchoring and casting slip sinker, but saw others doing better trolling and drifting.  We caught 2-4 then changed to bottom bouncing rigs.  Immediately began picking up more fish.  Maybe 20 minutes between fish, but most weighed 5-10# each.  Probably caught 12-15 cats.  A few channels, but mainly big blues on cut gizzard shad.  Some of the cats had big bellies.  Not sure if they have spawned yet, but  appeared to be full of eggs.  Fished around the green buoy.  

Location: Browns Ferry - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Air Temperature: 70-82ish degrees
Water Temperature: 77degrees
Lake Level: 555.9'
Weather Conditions: Light West wind, low humidity, sunny.

My dad came down to visit and we went out hunting for blue cats. Launched at the home ramp. Struggled to find bait fish. Very few shad except for small fry hatchlings. 2+ hrs looking for bait wasting time. Finally caught some shad at the Cowford Landing.

Rode to discharge water at Browns Ferry. We anchored in about 35' of water. Cast with slip rigs and tightlined the bottom with cut shad. Dad caught 6-8 drum and 1 largemouth bass. I caught 1 hybrid bass and 2 blue cats. Could potentially be a good place to troll for hybrids.

Several boats in the area catching fish. Worth revisiting the area.