Ohio River Action:Fishing for Blue catfish around mussel beds

alright guys I'm out here on the Ohio River today and it's pretty calm we have zero current actually it's probably running backwards if you ask me but we're not even gonna try to catch some big fish today what I did I hate me some catfish in Alabama the other day and I really really liked it so I'm gonna try to catch me some catfish some blue cats out here today you know 10 15 pound size that we can take home and fillet up and put in the frying pan so what we're going to do is is I'm going to downsize my baits just a little bit we're still we're going to drag some baits behind the boat and we're gonna suspend some bags under the boat and what we're going to target today is mussel beds big deep flat mussel beds and that's where a lot of these smaller teammate's fish I guess you want to say we would hang out an occasional big fish so we may we may log into a log into a big fish too but you never know but we're gonna start here in this 25 foot of water we're going to just kind of ease on down this is a big big flat right here there is a secondary channel on the other side I think it's actually more of a barge blowout but we're not going to concentrate on that today we're going to concentrate on these deep flats and see if we can't get some some either fish caught out stay tuned let's get started all right here's the size debate we're going to use for these smaller blue cats the ones you want to take home for supper and we're fishing them on suspended rig we're gonna ease him on down give him a couple cracks these other two we're gonna drag we're gonna drag these two behind the boat using the Kentucky rig you turned around here you won't throw this one out so far that way they don't tangle up with one another will drag these some kind of primarily under the boat all right let's go to dragon oh hung up that's what's gonna happen when you drag guys sometimes you're gonna get them hung up and you'll break them off they'll pull off sometimes wait a little rough territory here but mostly flats or just flatten it won't do that a lot once we get beyond this little point if I don't lose him between down then looks like we're moving a point about point five point six mine over here oh this oh oh that's on my new McCoy line - can you imagine this little bitty piece of make boys I told you we might lucky into a nice one we're down here on the Ohio River about just a few miles south of Louisville boat control Oh VOC control Oh this face got some shoulders over boys let's see we're gonna pull him up slowly because he was down deep about 35 we're probably fixing a seat my Jacuzzi happened here just in a second Oh taking a drag taking that drag going upriver to more drag we're trying to get him out away this boat coming that's big tug coming I think we'll get him up by the end take more this was our first trip guys we had drifted 3 minutes and I hope he don't get me tangled up I'm already tangled up back there come up right back hairless he's trying to come up now ain't see no bubbles yet though this is gonna be a nice fish he's trying to come up a little bit he's running again here you are some bubbles out there look at them right in front of me Lisa here he comes I see white nothing color boys I see color well he's a nice one they're real nice I called him on the suspended rod we're hung up on that Ellen look I'm hung up on everything we got to come up sometimes it's a two-man job lookee there lookee there what a beast water beast there we go now for all my haters who says I can't I don't fish Kentucky waters anymore because I can't catch fish here here's what you got a nice hook set there we go boys I don't even know what to say he's going with it there is guys if I cut that small piece of bait we come down here looking for some eaters and like I said you never know these big ones are in here too Ariella we're all tangled up with everything else we're gonna try to return this fish and get back out there this is a young fish - guys this fish is big but this fish is still young the reason you can tell is the length of it he hasn't filled out girth wise but he's he's got some good length all right guys we're gonna return this thing back to the water so somebody else can catch them another day Oh yeah it's awesome but he didn't have no problem I tell you guys if you let them blow those decompress bloat that bubbles off they don't have a probable back down the bottom when you turn them loose let's get on another one let's get off some eaters this time I come here for some ten pounders but I'll never turn them big face down all right let's get straightened though my little piece of bait at about two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and August the time when you think the big ones would be laying in hiding somewhere this one's out feeding but in all honesty that's not what we come here for we come here for some ten pounders that I could follow late but we're never gonna turn the chance to catch a big fish now that's for sure I guess he was on this flat just feeding like the rest of them and he actually might been feeding on the smaller fish that was feeding on the muscles and stuff that's down here on this mussel bed oh it is hot all right we're about to get straightened up from that last ordeal you turn around I throw my dragon rods back out that was a mess that bards come by we're gonna drag him the behind the boat alright guys there's a couple of nice fish laying on the bottom right there and we got some structure coming up to structure or maybe some wood cover I'm not sure just yet well it might be able to put on that dance pants down scan yeah that's probably a log probably a log down there but we're in some fish here but they look like big fish I might have to move to the next mussel bed find some smaller fish there's another nice fish hanging around some kind of cover down there we'll drag one of these lines across there that's fish boys that was that was on the track and that's what a hit looks like if you can determine between the hip and your dragon but this is the one we're looking for this is gonna be a sammich we didn't let him blow his bubbles that's what happens guys they just float he'll try to go back down and you think he's went back down damn River someone who floats up because he can't get back down but now he closed them bubbles he'd be alright that's where a lot of guys make the mistakes when they're in the tournament and they pull these things up out of deep like that and just immediately put them in live well and they go belly-up I can't remember the last fish I had that didn't make it well guarantee you this and they're gonna make it that's a that's a fillet right there we need one more one for me and one for Mama yeah let's straighten this back up and get back home course and grab us another one there's mamas fillets he won't get up a hook don't put me in the frying pan there's another couple good slaves all right we're gonna cruise on down to the next spot and play around I haven't been in this neck of the woods for a couple years kind of see what's changed what's stayed the same all right guys it's the last fight on fish it's about a two-mile drift if I want to drift it it's gonna be a steady 30 35 to 40 foot flat is to kind of slowly go down there's really no irregularities or drops or anything on it's just a real flat muscle bed that runs around this channel been through here I've got on a bunch of fish here before I've even got on some big fish but this is a real good Bank for numbers of smaller 1015 pound fish we're gonna run for more rides out and to suspended and to Dragon and see what's up we're gonna stick with our regular small bait because like say I'm not looking for any more big fish although will we we will take them if they value a lot of fun so we're gonna get ready and move on up through here and see if we can do hey guys we ran to my trolling motor to pull this world once the wind's blowing against us which makes it easier to pull and control where we want to be rather than the wind was blowing opposite direction but either way we could control it with the trolling motor it's just a little bit more painting though and weird we like a little bit of current but we don't have it we got it we've got to create our own shows you though fellas I put a little bitty piece of bait on to catch some average-sized eager fish and I catch a big one I put a huge huge piece of bait double hook rig and catch a small one here gonna get him gone he's a little bit bigger we can't keep him there we go alright guys you never know when catfishing he says never know you know the best baits I say is a live bait you know any kind of cut bait fresh cut bait but you never know incantation I've seen guys catch him on hotdogs marshmallows and all other kind of homemade concoction you just never know okay guys these blue cats run these these mussel beds what they'll do I guess they just scavenge down in the rocks and stuff and eat the mussel beds I guess they absorb the mussel inside and then they either regurgitate or or it goes out to the other end the shell does makes it pretty rough on the fish I imagine but blue cats love these little muscles and you know a lot of times when we fish tournaments and you put them in the in the live well here and matter of fact when we get these two outs you may see some mussels but they're just little bitty small muscles the zebra mussels and any other kind of you know mussels like that anywhere from the little ten pounders up to what you see in a sixty pounder will roam these flats these mussel flats looking for the next meal so give it a try next time you're out on the river and you run across a deep water flat with a muscle man on it you'll catch some good fish all right guys we've caught several fish today I think we're going to call it a day we've got our two meters we're gonna take home withh coffee decent fees we caught one real nice fish but this time of year and harvest if you look for those deep flats along in the Ohio River along the mussel beds and you can tell muscle man just tired from being a gravelly type of pump maybe in the river drift on the mussel bed you don't catch fish okay guys as usual thanks for watching my video we'll see you in the next one if you'd like to keep up with what I got going on I've got a new Facebook page it's Facebook press backslash wildcatters tv.com check us out see you

Channel: Steve Douglas

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Length: 23min 56sec (1436 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 11 2014