Cumberland River report - sort of
 

I launched at 4:50 this morning in the Stones at Heartland (?) ramp and ran up the Cumberland toward to the dam. I started out with a few smallies on the jerkbait and once the sun got up and clouds moved out, it slowed. In all we caught Smallmouth, Spots, Bluegill, Skipjack, Catfish, and White Bass. Most were caught on the jerkbait, cotton candy 6" lizard, and swimming a grub. There was no real flow to speak of and we didn't have the numbers we usually have, but fun nonetheless. I did have this mama hammer my baby brush hog while I was working it Carolina rigged by the rocks in about 8fow. Landed it after about 10 minutes of running all around my boat from front to back and back to front. Once landed I ran across the river to my buddies in another boat for a pic or two. I was kinda dazed after this fish for a while. The entire fight consisted of it staying as close to the bottom as it could until the end and I was racking my brain to remember when I had last retied my rig and was just hoping I at least would get to see what it was. Reel is spooled with 12# flouro with approx 26 inch, 10# leader. Released back to fight another day but it was a lot of fun. The weight was 24.8# on digital Rapala Scale.

Nice catfish! I ran into the same yesterday morning; I caught fish from the time I launched till the sun hit the water then the bite slowed down a LOT.

Huge catfish! We wore them out for 30 minutes then it slowed down greatly on chickamagua.

nice flathead! those things put up a great fight

Nice fish....good eating there.



Regards