Time: 6:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Air Temperature: 94 Degrees Hot!!
Water Temperature: 83-85 Degrees
Lake Level: 555.99'.
Weather Conditions: Calm. Winds less than 6 mph SSE
I had spend the previous week re-tying all my catfish jugs and added 8 more to the fleet, so I was anxious to get some jugs out. I launched at the house and started off by dropping 20 jugs on the flat just west of Mallard Creek in about 14 feet of water. I had cut bait on every hook. I then headed to the nuclear plant to fish my normal spot along the pipeline.
I was bouncing bottom with shrimp as bait. Fishing was a bit slow. I fished about 1.5 hours and pick up 3 catfish. One was a very nice female blue cat full of eggs. I'd say she weighted 10-12 lbs.
I then headed over to run the jugs, but had absolutely ZERO fish or lost bait. It begin to cross my mind that jug conditions may not be right. We were on the tail end of a mayfly hatch and some of the catfish were releasing eggs. They may not be on the flats like normal. I pulled all the jugs and took them to the north side of the river and launched them in deeper water about 20 ft deep just as an experiment. I figured the catfish may be moving shallow, but wanted to rule out deep water first.
I returned to rod and reel fishing over by the nuclear plant intake gates and pylons. I picked up three more nice cats there with one big blue in the boat that probably weighed 10-12 lbs. I released both of the large fish of the day.
Jessica joined me and we ran the jugs again. ZERO luck again. Headed back to the house having caught 6 cats total and kept the 4 that were of a good size to eat.
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