Live Bluegill vs. Cut Bluegill For Spring Catfish Bait

[Music] hey y'all just smoke on catfish I have had another awesome morning of catfishing out here on the Tennessee River I got out here at first light anchored down and the bot was owned immediately and that's pretty much how it's being the last few trips out that bite from from dawn and first line for the first hour and a half two hours after the Sun comes up has just been phenomenal lately and today was no exception I have caught probably upwards of thirty fish I mean I'm gonna have to edit most of them out just to make this video a reasonable time frame but it has been an awesome morning I was using bluegill for bait today I had a combination of live bluegill and cut bluegill because this trip today wasn't really playing I thought I had some plans this morning and last night I found out templates one won't happen so I was out there ultralight fishing just having some fun just catching whatever I could catch on the jig so I thought I'm out here I'm gonna take his bluegill and do some catfishing in the morning and so that's what I've done today I had a live bluegill on this rod and cut bluegill on these other two and the cut bluegill it dominated it absolutely dominated the lobule caught one flathead the couple of gill caught all the other flat heads and the blue cats that I got but like I said I have had an awesome morning out here I have caught a ton of fish here's the video one after that rod right there y'all and one after it see if he can so if he can take off with it here in a minute he's swimming with it there he goes there he goes the first one going here set up on the water here a little wall freak today there where it dumps into the channel small creek efficient here this ten yards wide it's only a few feet deep all the way back and through there but this section of the river I'm on it's a shallower section of the river I'm setting in 23 feet right now and I would imagine what the amount of activity I've seen back in that Creek I've seen some carp back in there I think shad flipping I'd say fish move up into splash I'd say fish moves like up in their feet so right here at the entrance of the hopefully they're pretty productive spot for find out get it started here at this date all right there we go y'all skunk is out it's a small fish so we've got nowhere to go but up from here drop another bait down since we find big brother oh there is owner it's another thing to dog go what I'm looking for a day now all these things I'll take it back let's take that back he's better off the hottie will show a little bit of an upgrade over the last fish still not a dolly whopper but we're getting there slowly but surely this letting go old out of here and that's only looky-looky özil Ebates i have with me today i hadn't planned on fishing today it's kind of the last minute thing last night I realize that's going to be able to go and so I was ultralight fishing yesterday evening so I've decided I'm gonna keep the few of the bluegill there too so I just kept my bluegill that's what I got I got a live bluegill on that rod they've got cut these two that her get here it's kind of the case in the last video - I have a lot of bluegill out and didn't get any action on the entire trip performing shot there's good fishing - we'll set that back let's pick up on this see what we got I think he's very big come off just a bite though let's drop this back down right quick then we'll land the center so touch air dam let's grab this look that zone there hey come off yeah that's a bank down there dropped out a second time they didn't get the plate LeBron I think somewhere somewhere between 12 and 15 big deal with I've kept in the lab I'm just cutting them as a needle way they're good and fresh look rods going down I'm done with it this time I'm only in this fish before cool with where's that blue can't run chair plank that one back there is finally hooked up let's let him go face the camera he would I was hoping to get on small flatheads out here that's what I've been home in the last couple videos so far it's just been blues it's another blue cat right here Oh la bete got hit the line bait got hit that's a bigger bluegill right there now something's after there he goes there he goes I'm gonna sit up there that's better finish up there now that's a better one well I don't have a single bite in the water right now so play some more fish coming through I'm out of luck it's digging that is upon me a flathead just when I was really hoping to get it this section of the river looks that's a little bit shallower late April I don't know what to date is 20-somethings water temps still 63 got a good current flow out here this morning fort loud and am I'm gonna once bar Fort Loudoun dams pushing 29,000 see if a switch on this section of the river I moans pretty good flow it's about somewhere 20 1/2 and 3/4 of a mile an hour current it's low enough amount of current for me place safe internet it but still you know fast enough to get a decent flow I've got to have a town singers to keep my baton suspended directly under me without the current push them out racing my mates higher in the water column yeah that's fly head penis big a flat heads when I thought he was either found hard mr. bings hungry this morning hanging a big bluegill down there dis white not too bad for him they had a hooky dark brown black splotches let's let him go let's say goodbye my buddy they go alright let's land this blue cat over here finally they get him going so we can get some baits back down huh there's that little blue just let it go I gotta get some baits on there I don't have a single bite the water right there I know many of you watching are better fisherman than me but I can't catch up that bait alright y'all there he is it's a live bluegill right there pretty big what's the biggest one I got last night got that on with Carolina rig our guys there's that one just a bluegill head they're basically just cut it in half drop it down that's what I've caught all the Blues on it's just the head section I've still got the bodies kind of the midsection area of these blue people I've got a bunch of them here still in the floor that way if I run out of the head pieces I still got those you know bluegill I've talked about it and nausea but these other videos that they're just not my favorite bait by any stretch I love fishing for them I love of ultralight fishing on the ultralight bluegill or one of my favorite species to catch it's so much fun they're such hard pull of fish panel for panel but as far as catfish bait goes out here on the Tennessee River they're just not that good you'll hook into a decent fish every now and again you certainly get good numbers of fish on bluegill but they're not you know they're not a what I consider a trophy fish caliber bait out here so what I do use them I want them to be as fresh as possible and I generally prefer the head section because I feel like that's going to give me the best opportunity at interesting we'll get them milan's baited it out here hopefully we'll get into some Oracle said I've got that that big bluegill the biggest one I caught last night no net rod right there I'm hoping it goes down with the big flat head over buddy look at Tara's hair nail look into him he nailed is on the cat will get [Music] this fish fought hard this morning you are taking them rods over hard I just enjoy this you know I've said in other videos I just I just love doing this time fishing it's just fun to me I think it's safe it's the anticipation of what's coming because you never know it could be five pounds ten pounds it could be a hundred pounder down there when that rod goes over you just don't have one of these rods go over especially when you get two and three rods going over at the same time when you kayak it's fun man you ain't done it give it a shot blast know if you can see from this camera here that's that Creek right there right there behind me you can see it's not very you not even be upset for me blocking play but it's not very wide and it's not very long back in there it's not very deep v it's only a few feet deep buddy comes in right here and I've seen Chad flippin out there this morning when I come by I was carp in there jumping everywhere so you know anytime you got a creak like that that flowed into the channel here you're going to have a path you're out of the path of those fish to go up in there and a place for them to feed I thought what the heck we'll try it oh look at that wrong look at rod right there it's going down too it's going down too okay I'm all set to some backside subnet back a sec I'll grab it pick up on this in the single yeah disappearing great big let's play flathead right there almost set this fat is he small listen right here's the much bigger areas first look Eddie I'm gonna set the view back just let him tire himself out a second and this little flathead get him done you get right there boy that is a juvenile flathead rut area that is a little fun he's cute though I love these flathead go get big slam this old mean blue kid look that nippers everybody that's better fish let's hold him up here damn I just thought a bad blue cat they buried that rod I mean he just absolutely crushed it go I'm on the board I got this board set here we'll get a length Oney something y'all care about that somebody's doing I don't really care about whites or lengths but it's good to take a peek every now and again that's a long fish Betty I've bent his tail down he'll hit 37 inches pretty long fish ain't very fat for his length but he's a good fish I thank mr. bluefish you know he's right going look at they go oh well let's rebate some lines and do it again look at that a couple blues don't play around mandate this as soon as their owner they attack that fish it may be spring by gosh but that water still colder in a hitch in the face area is another fun fight buddy fun fun I've had a fun morning this is all being this just the first hour of the night maybe a little over an hour's good so far it's kind of been the case here lately of that early-morning bite here right at first line for the first hour hour and a half a day line that's what I've been doing well over the last couple weeks so I got out here first light again this morning hopefully this bottle continued for a while longer it is it you get to late dissin rut quit there goes there goes oh man that one's pulling bud camera off it's just just rebated mother lion had him dropped it back down from that last one and that one took off he's on the back end of the whole kayak room pulled mine Kalu's moving dog Tony I think where I'm at here comes my inker catches again here I think it has should be okay been sitting here where I'm at any thing is I don't think this fish is heaping that big tell you what to do I'm gonna set this fish down in a second that's what I want to do do what I was trying to do before he hit and lower that other bait then they can be down there soaking while we lay in peanuts I'll switch these two out y'all this fish ain't that big oh my gosh he hit it hard enough to pull my anchor loose and move me down a few feet that's a fun thing I've said it before so many other videos when used to spend fishing and especially a day like today where I'm setting 223 feet of water I've only got 20 21 feet of line out so when these fish when they hit it and they take off and plus you know you got the current out here too that you're dealing with it is an intense battle it is a lot of fun they even fish this size right here like I'm about to land they can put up a heck of a fight all right there he is there's the culprit there's the one that's trying to pull me all the way down the river oh let's hold him up here why don't we I mean for as hard as he pulled he ain't that big a finish but I'm gonna tell you something like I said when you got I got 21 foot of line out today basically when they hit it buddy they absolutely crush it and this one did it he had two back hitting my kayak spun around you seen it pulled by a loose I moved down 10 15 yards here before it caught again get on out of here do it again someday fish that bluegill there he's on all tore up there in the face so I'm just gonna take a second I'm gonna go through the top it's like a they really three no wrong way or right way to hooky Speights guys I don't care what people tell you as long as your hook point and your barbs exposed you're good but I generally like to go above the gill plate that road noise up here going by as I try to talk I like to go up there just because I typically sometimes will get my baits back and be able to use them for second fish when you hook them through the top here oftentimes they seem to get ripped off the hook during the fight so you only get one beta or one you set up we got it back on there I'm gonna drop it down get some more if we can soaked yeah thump there goes there he goes glass y'all I'm having an absolute life there is another one y'all they just keep coming this place has been definitely productive of numbers and literature out there I just let that fish go I've got one on that line I got one on right there that's probably flat hand too why he's acting it's probably wait for him to take off here I'm gonna the camera set up get this glove off guarantee you though that's a flat head there he goes there you go oh my gosh you let it go crap we ran to get the bait I didn't get that bike I got excited picked up on that too soon that's all right leave it to mix there he is he's holding their face on their flag flag I thought it was waves act try to get it from this camera here where you could see in the light look at that and that is a beautiful flag he's kind of a kind of a brownish orange color black splotches all over he's just a baby but man that is a pretty fly head let's let him go get big see you pal all right guys that's a wrap in another video I hope y'all enjoyed it I had a whole lot of fun making it I'll see you in the next one thanks for watching

Channel: Kayak Catfish

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Id: ITFG7fU2-LA

Length: 22min 53sec (1373 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2019