Catfish And Corn

[Music] all right people catfish dave here i'm getting a late start traffic issues cost me about an hour it's uh already late morning it's going to be hot it's almost nine o'clock already i've lost the first three hours of the best bite so i'm gonna have time uh before it just gets too hot i'm gonna have time to work maybe two holes so i picked the two holes most interesting holes that are going to be close to the ramp i'm going to work the farthest one first and i'm going to work the one closest to the ramp towards the end of the morning looks like i've got a little current i've got a lot of noise over here to my right whatever this thingamajig is with all the barges these types of areas i am working could put me on a good flat head or a good blue sometimes i fish places i'm more likely to get blues so but this place right here either or you can get anything right here you could get a big striper right here i'll probably suspend one and have three out i don't have a lot of fresh bait so anything behind the butt hole uh normally that would be one bait just cutting a chunk of it but i'm gonna flay everything behind the butt hole just on one rod it looks like this i've got quite a bit of current and by the time you put this float on there well this thing will kind of just swim around in the current like a fish you know it's a little different presentation than the old chunk piece i'm gonna put it on there i've caught blues this way but this has attracted a lot of flatheads as well sometimes i do this this is going to be one of those mornings we'll see what it catches everybody ask why i always land the fish on one side of the boat well i'm just using one camera and uh i try to get it face where i can get the take down on the right rod but plenty of visibility over here when i am landing the fish it's just best for video if you can see everything going on most of the time i will work the fish around to this side of the boat just for visibility during the video purposes sometimes if he's given me a hard time or i think he's going to get in my lines too much i will land one on the other side just to get him in the boat it's all about video quality and so people can see what's going on i can land a fish on any side of the boat sometimes you do things a little different when you're trying to actually make a video it's awful noisy over there i wish they would shut that off while i'm fishing we've been here for four minutes and so far we ain't caught jack's squat my fish finder ain't working right now i guess it's no longer waterproof after sitting on this boat for a year and a half out in the sun hard thunderstorms the other day and uh it's like a cell phone that got wet so i've got it at the house sitting in rice i'm using the navionics on my phone app to position me where i want to be on these holes this hole has a couple interesting sections to it of course the very front of it there's about a four foot drop off which is kind of a hiding spot for flatheads or acts as a current break the right side of it has a hump that comes out and slopes down and of course there's a current break behind it and of course i'm fishing the actual river ledge part of the hole with these two rods here so this one over here is covering the left ledge this one here is suspended right where that drops down about four foot this one here is kind of covering a little more back into the middle of the hole i've got this right one throughout about where that point kind of breaks off down there in that hole so far we've been here about eight minutes and we ain't caught jack squat i've got maybe two hours to fish and it's just going to be two dag blasted hot it's august i am fishing the bummer of summer i don't know why they just don't call it bummer instead of summer i don't like nothing about summer never have never will especially the first part of it which is spawn so you have all the miseries of summer plus the fish bin on the nest or at least the quality ones anyway makes for a very trying time of year then when they come off the nest down here around august you can start catching them again but you have a heat stroke trying i'm not really crying i just don't feel like dying it's too hot out here man that place is noisy over there we've had one small bite here in 30 minutes that's not good of course a big flathead could come out of nowhere at any time if they're going to eat at this time of day i don't know at 10 o'clock we're moving and going into the other hole we don't have much more than bite left and we will be getting into the other hole at the end of the morning bite in my honest opinion things are looking pretty grim at least as far as getting numbers maybe i can score one big fish you never know i got a late start but still giving it a go there we go that's that old uh flutter bait filet piece [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] it ain't much but the skunk is out of the boat all right y'all 45 minutes for one fish i had a two-hole plan but i've got a change of plans i don't want to keep wasting time in here i know there's flatheads here but if they're not going to eat they're not going to eat there is a barge right down river and it's being unloaded with corn now that's shallow it's not in the actual channel or nothing but i've heard a lot of stories about blue cats feeding on corn from them barges so since they are actually unloading the barge now i'm sure they're spilling corn so i'm going to go spot lock either right beside or right that barge just for a bit see if we can't pick up any cats feeding on corn hey why not this ain't but about 10 foot deep right here i'll try it for a minute then we're gonna head on down to the deeper hole [Music] this fish was caught on that same filet piece that i caught the other fish on that fillet piece just got hit again uh oh there goes the head there goes the head my god we are getting some bites here [Music] well we are getting frequent bites behind this corn barge no sign of any bigger fish we are getting up into the heat of the day my camera's going to want to shut off any minute i hate summer so [Music] i'm only going a few minutes at a time without bites there is definitely something to do with this no sign of any big fish [Applause] that headpiece is just too big for them there's obviously something to this corn thing though i didn't even get a chance to get my other one faded up the temperature is rising fast [Music] so [Applause] [Music] there is definitely more action behind this corn barge [Music] that's just what i need right there some boat trying to make big waves all right y'all i've had enough playing with these fish not seen of anything of any size it's pretty much too hot to video but i sure would like to get one decent fish in this video summer is notorious for producing small fish around here i'm going to give it a go in this deeper hole down here for a little bit right there's the barge and right on that back corner uh there's a truck getting loaded with corn it's not just a crazy bite they're run they're actually unloading the front of this barge if i could somehow get around to the front side and get right where they were actually dropping it in the water that might increase the action i've always heard stories of the catfish that would feed when they drop this corn in the water i did see an increased bite when i got here let's uh head down river try to get a decent fish out of this deeper hole here comes that stupid boat doing the same thing again i guess that's supposed to be fun he knocked my gatorade over with all them big waves he's making for everybody well we here just getting up into the bad time of day to fish wrong time of day to be doing this not impossible there should be something down there it's the deepest hole in this whole section of river i'm gonna put this on for me for a while do do [Music] so well i guess that's the healthiest fish of the day out of 50 foot of water he ain't much but i guess for this time of day and getting a late start i'll take it [Applause] all right people not a great trip but i need those algorithms so i'm gonna upload it i guess it's a lesson in getting to the river early uh years ago i'd bank fish off kneeland drive and i'd get there at night and the bite would start around 10 10 30 and they would buy all night long you get a little dead spill in the around between four and six and then once that sun come up you would get this active bite you'd catch fish after fish after fish up until about 9 30 and it'd slow down and you might get one more by 10 30 and then you could sit there all day and not get another fish summer bite if your baits are still just sitting in one spot or like i was anchored i believe time of day definitely makes a difference i think in the daytime drifting dragging i think you can catch fish all day long but that style of fishing you better be there early or you better be there late as far as the corn what do you all think i've heard that you know i did have a more active bite right behind that barge i wasted some time there wasn't getting nothing big so i left either way there's a lesson in every video even if there ain't no big fish this is a video there was fish in the video that makes it a fishing video looks to run into this dock this is catfish today with another one signing out

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 30,133

Rating: 4.9444447 out of 5

Keywords: Blue Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Tennessee River

Id: ZjiaiPOdI6Q

Length: 20min 46sec (1246 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 16 2021