Last week the water temperature dropped about 13 degrees in just four days. Now it is back up nine degrees and seemed to confuse the fish a little.  Numbers are outstanding but to catch big fish you have to stay on the move until you run into them. Pattern is still the same as last […]

The cold front from late last week was harsh. Wearing socks let alone ice fishing gear in September is not my idea of fun. The water temperature dropped about 13 degrees in just four days. Surprisingly the bite did not slow all that much considering. Fishing is really good right now and getting better every […]

Fishing this week has been very good. Good numbers and great fish. It seems to be sort of a grind as you need to stay on the move but give good honest sits in each spot. Most spots are one or two and done before moving on so it seems slow but at the end […]

Sorry for the delay in reports. We had our main computer go down. The water is falling again and it seems to not have affected fishing all that much. The fish have moved from the OFF current edges to the middle very near the main current seam. This does take a little observation to find […]

Catfishing is getting better every day now. Fish are being caught most places on the river with mid-river holes being the best areas. One area that has NOT worked the past week is shallow/fast water. Sit times have been the old reliable 20-25 minutes with the first strike coming about 10 minutes in. Bait again […]

We are in the post spawn now. The past couple of days I have been finding many more skinny beat up fish. Kind of odd since I have not seen much sign of spawn at all this year until now when they are finishing. This is good as the water levels are finally stabilizing up […]

The water crested a couple days after last week’s report and began to quickly fall for about two day and now is on the way back up again. The fish seem a bit confused by this trend and fish are being caught in about the same areas and tactics as last week. Fish remain tight […]

…And just like that everything went out the window. Storms last week and over the weekend have the river back up. The past few days have had the water mud up and lots of floating debris moving. This has pushed the fish tight to the banks in the OFF current areas. Deeper seems better. Sit […]

For now, I would say catfishing is back on track. We are in the last of the prespawn as water temps are getting to 70. The past five days or so the big fish have turned on and are back in mid river holes feeding. It has been a pretty basic pattern of set the […]

It has been a trying week for those of us who catfish a lot. For me, lots of stress and even a little sleep lost but things appear to be looking up. The water has fallen back and leveled out. The weather appears to be shaping up some and the fish seem to reacting positively.  […]