STRANGE DAY OF FISHING ON THE RIVER

Author: nlcatfish

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11-09 Just as I got my boat to the Cincinnati Public landing a rain squal came on. I pulled

my car under the bridge and sat it out for about 15 mins. Saw some shad at the ramp tried to

cast for them on my 2nd cast the rope slipped off my jacket sleve. I was able to cast a line

to it and got it back. I then went up to the Newport hooters and noticed the river had more

current than the other day and the wind was a little stronger blowing up river. Got my lines

in at 08:50 and 08:55 had a channel on the rod. This one was 5.8 pounds 24.5 inches long.

Thawed cut shad was the bait I had at the time. Then at 09;15 caught a smaller channel this

on was only 4.4 pounds. Came in at 23 inches, also took thawed shad.

Then things really got STRANGE. I hooked a very nice Channel and he wanted to stay down I

tried to work him up and to the outside of the boat. Somehow it got twisted up with the

other line at the back of the boat. I had moved my dip net up so I could net the fish. When

I tried to reel in the fish the last few feet I was also pulling the other line and rod. So

I decieded to moved the other rod to give me some slack on the fish. Just as it moved it

kicked the dip net over the side. I just saw it out of the corner of my eye , buy the time I

I reached for it the current pushed it down river and it <B>sank!</B> So now I was trying lip a 10

pound or better catfish. Needless to say it would not open it's mouth. When I tried a 2nd.

time, it did a hard flip and snapped the line!. Needless to say I was not a happy person at

the moment. Lost a good size catfish plus a dip net!

The wind got stronger as I decided to try for some fresh Shad just up river. The shad were

scatter due to the wind. After about 5 cast only had 5 shad but they were on the larger

side. Headed back to Hooters , caught a 4.5 pound White perch (sheephead) on one of the

fresh cut shad. I got my boat out of the water and headed home at 13:00 Still down about

missing that bigger catfish but did have some action . Tight lines to all.

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About the author: Have been catfishing around the Downtown Cincinnati area of the Ohio River for over 40 years. Gone catfishing at Lockport Manitoba 5 times over the past 10 years. It is the greastest place to catch lots of huge CHANNEL catsfish in North America!! For the past 6 years have passed catfishing information for the Cincinnati part of the ohio river on my web site ""CINCINNATI CATFISHING"".

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