Air Temperature: 65 - 84 degrees during trip
Water Temperature: 83 degrees
Lake Level: 555.82' - 31,152 cfps - Perfect conditions
Weather Conditions: Light winds, variable 3-6 mph
Kyle twisted my arm on Friday to go fishing on Saturday morning. Ok, it didn't take much twisting... I just needed an excuse...
We did a repeat trip of what Joe and I did the prior weekend. We launched at the house and put out 10 jugs on the flats in front of my house baited with a mix of chicken gizzards and cut shad. We placed the other 10 out by the mouth of Mallard Creek. We then headed to the nuclear plant to fish rod and reels.
As soon as I dropped line, I was pulling in a channel cat. Fishing was a little slow, but I managed to catch 4 cats around the boil line across the channel. We ran back fished the jugs and pulled in a nice fat blue clocking in near 20 lbs and another smaller channel. The blue was bigger than the pictures made it appear.
We went back to the plant to the intake gates and I pulled in another good fish. Soon after, we ran the other set of jugs and then headed to Lucy's Branch for fuel. We ran across to the bluffs and bounced bottom there and I picked up another fish, but it was slow and starting to get hot. We decided to call it a day and headed back to pick up jugs. I think we picked up 3 more cats on jugs to finish the day with 6 rod and reel cats and 5 jug cats. Kyle took home a great big goose egg and I'm going to trash talk and remind him for a little while 😂.
It's been 2 years since we did this last and we had a blast. Need to get out there together more often.
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