Bread And Butter Blue Cats

all right people we're officially in the spawn there's ways you might catch a fish one is if you can get right up on a nest two is to be out in sixty foot of water to intercept the blue cats and stuff that have come off the nest that went on maybe early and three is to fish a flooded down I'm at a flooded dam um it's very flooded I'm not even going to throw big baits I don't think I'm gonna save them for later for that sixty foot of water I was talking about it's high noon because I'm too lazy to get up I'm gonna cut my bait little strips and I am part I don't know I mean I'm I can see the dam from here but it's a good ways up there and got your drop off right here I'm in seventeen foot of water there's about 20 foot just below me here I'm going to cut up these little strips of skipjack I've got one rod I've got to retie and I'm just going to try to get a catfish on video things are gonna get tough up until pretty much all summer you know that's the way it is when fall comes it'll be glory days again until then I'm gonna be doing what I can just remind people that don't know of course I can take one look at it and I can tell you so but a flooded dam is a dangerous place we had a guy get killed at the stem yesterday but boat got too close to them flood gates it pulled their boat in took them under so my boat ain't big enough to be up there and there ain't no boat big enough if you get too close to them things I'm gonna stay down here if I get too big a bait in this hard current I'm gonna have to use a 20 ounce sinker I'm gonna use these little strip baits man if they're hungry they'll eat it there will be a lot of action with the current moving them flutter bait I'll call it matter of fact I hope these five ounce sinkers are holding me down because this float on here makes it a tougher to keep your bait down also hopefully I'm close to the bottom anyhow I can already see I've been pulled off my original spot I was anchored about 20 yards upstream I noticed the boat took kind of a wild swing there for a second this current is ripping I really wanted to be up that way I'll try it here since I'm here he didn't stay on that was definitely a bite I hope my baits still on there these fish are gonna be real tough to pull up this heavy current that's one reason I don't have my baits bombed way out there I've got maybe an hour to before storms hit my other one option was to hit the 60 foot of water but I'd been a good waste from the boat ramp and plus wants them storms hit what's going to happen everybody's going to come back at the same time and you're gonna sit out there in the storm anyway because you're going to be number 20 in line trying to get your boat back out of there so I chose to come here get another hit right there he's off [Music] look at that beast right there be smug buddy I'm just glad to see a catfish last time I went out I got nothing but stripers that's the happiest I've ever been to see a small fish [Music] I'm all flipped up bait the other way and hook it from the stomach luck that there it's still good [Music] a lot of places to get hung up here in these dams look at that look at that look at you see that take out he's on [Music] I'm gonna use that same bait again I've obviously got a little bit of a hot zone down there I believe that it's a little bit of a current break where I'm throwing this one since I'm out here fooling around with a bread-and-butter catfish I'm gonna try on a new hook this hook is called a raptor HJ 10 taught by nocturnal nation catfish and these guys give me this hook at the catfish conference now I'm not going to lie to you they're pricey there's one of them and there's one of my must add demon hooks right beside it now as far as the actual gap when you line the shanks up the must add demon has almost an eighth of an inch wider gap meaning it's most likely going to go over a larger tooth patch now I've never caught a fish on this Raptor hook yet so I'm not going to put it down but I'm going to tell you what if there could only be one hook in town for me it would be the must add demon 10 art wide gap fine wire if doesn't say wide gap if it doesn't say fine wire 1x it's the wrong hook I got a bunch of big trees fixing to hit me here but either way I'm gonna give this hook a try the raptor HJ yeah doesn't cut my lines with that log ain't that lovely looks like it's going catch both of them dag-blasted come off there I did not tie a float on this one I'm gonna run a little piece of skipjack flutter star we gonna put it on this Raptor HJ and make this one the farthest bait down the river we fishing three rods working to flooded down during the spawn now I guess the biggest thing about spawn to remember is not all fish go on the nest at the same exact time different parts of the river or at different temperatures you know when you get farther down in the Tennessee River Watch bar Chattanooga area those waters downstream tend to heat up before us up here but anyway spawn is on here and one place to catch catfish is that a flooded em during this time into May hey you can have a good day just come to a flooded dam another thing that happens is when fish get off the nest up in the reservoir then Blues will tend to go and straight into what I call summer pattern man and they'll be out there in 60-foot or deeper water sometimes up to 80 foot so which is why they were so hard for me to target off the bank in the summer now that I can float I can still be the goat even in the summer time I would rather fish for the fish that I know is hungry these fish it this flooded down there here to chew those fish up there and sixty foot of water right now those fish are too so when it comes this time of year I know what I'm gonna do if it wasn't flooding I would be up there in 60 foot it's really not bad when you're catching catfish out here I believe it's noon I mean it's a sucky hour to fish but actually got my lazy butt up out of bed I might have hammered a real bite you know what I mean either way I'm happy to see a fish during spawning uh-uh-uh-uh-uh that rod seems to be the sweet spot come on number three ain't gonna let me finish my Gatorade [Music] they all running small but that's okay y'all this ain't ball this is the middle spawn so I'll take it happy to get a rod bed right now that was three fish on that one bait [Music] I am running a float on this rig [Music] one thing I like about fishing this dam is I'm not seeing a lot of the big boat action coming up here now when football season starts they will be coming on up through here and that's fine with me because I've got other places I would much rather fish once that gets here not otter doing [Music] I guess that's just a lucky rod right there for fish on one rod [Music] [Applause] [Music] what a beast that is right there hey it's better to the one of them dag-blasted fish with the stripes on them this wasn't the initial spot I tried to set up but I'm just too lazy to move that old Raptor HJ just seems to have the bad juju I put it on a video a while back and I was getting plenty of fish and I'll put that hook on everything just stopped bad juju any time you try something new you might just be looking for some bad juju I've got just two little Debbie's left I wish I was a little more on the seam over here but I don't hear fish them at the hardest worst time of day samraat again man you got to be kidding me well he didn't stay hooked and I'm kind of glad because I don't want to catch another fish on that rod I've already caught four or five I want the other two rods to catch a fish so I'm glad I missed that fish matter of fact I might just pull that rod completely out of the water so I don't catch another fish on it I'm tired of catching the fish on that rod I see the clouds building up 80% chance of thunderstorms by two o'clock it's about one o'clock now I'm gonna take that one rod that's already caught all the fish and I'm gonna put a head piece on there just so I've got something different out there I don't know if there's anything big enough in here to eat it or willing to eat it but I'm gonna find out that seems to be the lucky rod so if I'm gonna put a big bait on a rod it's gonna be the lucky rod I just like to catch a fish on that old raptor HJ just so I could say I actually caught something on it this makes my second attempt and I should have knew I was going to get that bad juju I got small fish hitting that skipjack head on that one rod they won't touch the other two baits and that one with the raptor HJ I've got it through in about the same spot I've caught all them other fish I think I'm gonna check the bait on it ah-ha I found out what's going on it's hard to catch fish without bait people ain't never been able to do it now maybe we'll have a shot at getting the fish on this raptor HJ then skies are looking a little dark over there gonna check my radar oh yeah yeah the raptor HJ [Music] finally got the bad juju off that dag-blasted hood [Music] oh you got to be kidding me I got some dude blowing a dag-blasted trumpet across the riverbank it's my last Little Debbie people storms are starting to build over there I ain't got no bilge pump em they say it's not good to get hit by lightning when you're soaking wet out on a boat now that's what I've always heard now when I was off the bank fishing you know I always knew it was not a good idea to get struck by lightning but they say it's just as bad if you get struck in a boat so yep everybody's coming in trying to dodge the storm I guess I'll follow along basically people just having a good time during the spawn like I say when that's going on not all fish are on the nest at the same time now this dam you know it's always gonna have a fish in it sometime but right now they running about half the flood gates waters high waters raging and that seems to spark catfish activity I've done well below the dams and floods even in the winter I come out here not too many big boats out here it's nice and peaceful just enjoying the day getting some rods bent it says a video there was fishing in the video that makes it a fishing video this catfish table another one sign it out

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 50,006

Keywords: Catfish, Blue Catfish, Fishing, Ft Loudoun Dam, Tennessee River, Mustad Demon, Nocturnal Nation, Skipjack

Id: 5bG7xbvtfrU

Length: 24min 39sec (1479 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 03 2020