I did get the opportunity to put the boat in the water today and managed to catch a few catfish. Here is a lesson learned for those of you that have a boat: check and make sure that you have the drain plug with you before you drive all the way to the water. I got down to the launch site and no drain plug. That’s really odd in that it is permanently attached to the drain fixture. So I lash the boat back down to the trailer and off I go to my dealer (The Boat House in Athens, AL) who, with a smile, told me that they don’t make those drain plugs or drain fixtures anymore. They did sell the the new model and saved me a small fortune by providing me the silicon and tools that I’d need to swap out the assembly. Half an hour later I was on the water.
The fishing was worse than uneventful, I was using chicken liver on circle hooks and fishing roughly 18 foot deep in 20 feet of water. My line was tied to ‘jugs’ and I had 10 of them set out. The catfish loved the bate! The only problem was that they could grab the bait and would slide right off of the hook. Only two of the catfish were dumb enough to actually get caught (a blue and a channel cat), in the end I gave them back to the lake (no one wants to eat dumb fish).
I’ve got chicken gizzards in the freezer so weather permitting I’ll put it back into the water tomorrow.