Weekend OHL fishing report

[Jim]

Hi all,

After seemingly months of non-stop work, I finally got out to fish Old Hickory Lake. Friday, I went out and fished the main channel for catfish. I caught six eaters (2-4lbs) on shad and then went to try for some bass. I fished a rocky bank in a cove just off the main channel and picked up 5 bass with a mix of keepers and dinks on shakyheads. Then I notice a few jumps toward the mouth of the cove and caught 5 more on a spinnerbait. I tried a crankbait in the same area, but the bass wouldn't hit it. Overall, a nice day to get out and great to get some fish to eat.

Saturday, I took my son out for some fun fishing up river from Gallatin. We went from 10:30 to 2. Ended up with about a half dozen bass with most caught on a very slow retrieved shakyhead. A few were on wood, but most on the rocks.

Sunday, we had friends over and made bacon-wrapped catfish on the grill. Delicious!

The rain held off most of the day and I finally got out to fish for an hour just before sunset. This time I started in the back of a creek and threw spinnerbaits at everything as I moved along. Finally got a nice bass



and then switched to a shakyhead to fish the area a little more thoroughly. It paid off as I caught four more with the biggest at 22 inches and about 5.5 lbs. (doesn't look very big in the pic, but it was a good fish)



Fun to get out and seeing the lake. The bass seem to be in a bunch of different patterns at the moment, but they are biting.

Now back to work

Jim

[Alphahawk]

Nice looking bass Jim! Those catfish wrapped in bacon sound good.




Regards

[Halli]

Hey, Catfish wrapped Bacon!!!!

Ya'll (Mr. TK) needs to make a Cooking Fish/Game channel so recipes can be posted and pics, Wrapped catfish sounds great.

Great report on the fish I was wondering where they went too haha as I fished Sat night and only caught one.

[MNfisher]

Nice fish Jim!! I haven't tried catfish wrapped with bacon, but you can wrap cardboard in bacon and I bet it's great!

[dncncowgirl]

LOL, yup, just ask jad2t about bacon. He'd wrap shoe leather in bacon and announce it to be better than filet mignon....(Jimmy, that's a prime cut of steak, in case you aren't familiar with it).