Monday, May 24, 2010

Rockfishin' with Luke

Luke and I fished Watts Bar after work up above Long Island this evening for a couple of hours.  We got gizzard shad in the Center Farm Cove and caught several rockfish and smaller catfish.
The section of river where the fish are so congregated is shown on the map.  Notice the small hump at the red arrow.  The red arrow points to an osprey’s nest.  The osprey’s nest sits in about 5’ of water and just out from it the water drops to 30’+ deep.  The fish were stacked up on this drop off.  We got a bunch of bites – almost every cast, but lost a lot of fish making me think our bait was too big, and or there were a bunch of small catfish in the area.

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