Fishing Below a Massive Dam For Anything That Will Bite!

welcome back everyone so today we're doing something completely different that we've never done before on this channel now if you're new here normally me and my son are out chasing trophy catfish but today we're on a stretcher river where i've never even heard of anybody catching a catfish we're below wolf creek dam on the cumberland river in kentucky we're just gonna go up and do some jigging blow the dam some vertical jigging i've just got a medium heavy rod with a small bait caster some 30 pound braid i've got about a three or four foot fluorocarbon leader 20 pound a half ounce jig head with a five with a five inch curly tail i've got a few different colors we're gonna try but we're just gonna run up here below the dam fish a few hours this afternoon and just see what we can catch just something different i like doing this every now and then it's a lot of fun we've also got a special guest on the boat today the stray boat cat has made another appearance looks like he's lost some weight since the last video so we gave him some hamburger buns [Music] all right so they got one gate open on the spillway and then the hydros are over there there's a few units running but we're gonna start here because i like the color a little better it's got a little slightly stained in here it's crystal clear on the other side and it's also a few degrees warmer over here so we're gonna start here i'm just gonna start throwing this grub up in there we might do some vertical jigging too so this is one of the largest dams in the united states right here i think it's over a mile long and the water is coming off the bottom of a really deep lake so the water temperature stays cold year round i think it stays in like the 50s year round so they stock trout in here and they do really well in here because of the cold water i think all of kentucky state record trout came from this area so it's mainly known for its trout fishing but there's also some other species of fish in here though it's great walleye fishing i think the state record walleye came from here and there's also a lot of big stripers that run up here certain times of the year and that's what i'm hoping today i'm hoping we hook into a big stride for today so we're just letting the boat drift down this bank just drifting into the speed of the current i'm just bouncing this jig off the bottom got a little drop off right here with a bunch of fish on it no idea what they are but baits going through them right now it's gonna have to change colors if something will happen here soon i know we've had to drift past some fish by now oh there's a fish well that's a fish we'll take it that's what we marked on that ledge right there a little little school bath oh lord we are about to hit a tree we got to stop just in time some done tried to eat him look both sides some grabbed him right there i guarantee he was a big striper pretty little fish i'm just glad to be getting bit though skunk's out of boat anyway i don't know how this wall right here couldn't hold some fish small mouth stripers walleye something got to be laying on this wall it just looks too good that's a big old drum the cat wants to eat it that thing will kill you knock the fire out like that all right guys it is a nice drum and he was a fight win oh there's a fish i probably lost him because i never got to set the hook no i got him i had my rod up too high something small but we'll take it white bass yeah yeah it's a nice one we all keep some of that really nice white bass that's what i was hoping to do today to come out here and just catch a little bit of everything that's a lot of fun every time that every time you feel that thump you never know what it's going to be all right y'all i got these little crappie jigs tied in a couple of them tied on here this is my skit jack set up and i didn't happen to have it in the boat so we're going to go over here and see any more of those white bass will hit these i have no idea what we got take a drink little bitty little man i'll tell you what this is a fight on this rod right here 12 pounds 12 pounds all right i'm gonna put him back guys i know they don't last long out in the water all right so it's been about 30 minutes since we caught the last fish so i'm going to change up colors here we're going to put on a avocado red chartreuse a little bit smaller grub so we're going to try that out for a minute don't feel very big though it's not i don't think it's a big old striper like i was hoping [Music] it's another smallmouth that's a pretty one there though that's a nice small mouth yeah look at the cat he's trying to get him a bite another nice little small mouth it's looking like they're getting very turned on the guy over there just caught two stripers and i just caught two small mouths so maybe they're gonna turn on now i guess this new color grub that i put on here is a smallmouth color all right so it's been a while since we've caught any fish over there by the spillway so we're gonna try the hydros right here it's getting towards the end of our trip and uh this will probably be one of our last drifts down through here and just see what we can come up with [Music] so i'm trying to fish this jig as close to the bottom as i can without getting hung up as soon as i feel that jig take the bottom i'll jerk it back up off the bottom because if you let it drag for just a second you're home fish it's a trout i won't even hook in the mouth come on buddy oh look there's a hole in him look at the hole in that fish that's crazy man it will do strong you know what that reminds me of what could have done that i mean it's still bleeding doubt he'll make it but we'll put him back anyway that's kind of cool that's probably going to be our last fish probably getting her head out good fish that's gotta be a striper drum a snag drum all right guys that really was my last cast just had to make it an extra long cast [Music] all right so we had a great couple of hours this afternoon out on the river we caught a lot of fish now unfortunately i don't think you all got to see all the fish because we had some camera problems but we had a great time it was nice doing something different and for those of you all that are here just for the catfish content don't worry i have a new catfish video dropping here in a few days but i want to thank you guys for watching god bless you all we'll see you next time

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Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021