Hi all,
Fished Old Hickory for a few hours today and the stripers and cats are still biting real well. Hit a few different places in the mid lake section and found fish on all of them. The stripers were between 27 and 34 inches and very healthy. All were released.
I also got into the catfish with this flathead monster giving me a great fight. I dragged him out of a snag and the leader was really scraped up. Lucky it held, but fluorocarbon leader material is super tough and I needed it today.
This same pattern has held for the last few weeks and here is what the stripers look like on the depthfinder. I have been finding them near holes with 50+ ft of water usually holding on the edge of deep dropoffs about 20 to 30 ft down.
After a few hours fishing, I met my wife and son for a boat ride. He had a good time and kept asking me to "Go faster Daddy!"
Great day on the water,
Jim