Remote Control Catfishing

all right people catfish dave here it's uh may 1st saturday morning it's late morning uh i got me a new trolling motor it's got spot lock it's got the i pilot it's got the whole deal so uh i'm kind of out messing around with it and of course while i'm messing around i need a fishing video of some kind i'm pretty close to the house here i'm actually in the holston river either way i'm to play around with this trolling motor here i'm going to set a spot lock kind of back in here because the wind's pretty rough it's kind of cool actually i should have brought a coat we got the trolling motor going i'm just going to look at this navionics on my phone here and get right where i want to do get right about where i want i'm just watching the navy onyx up on my phone here i'm kind of lining up with this shallow hump here right where it drops off into a little bit deeper water at least the wind is blowing the same direction as the current i am getting some wind back here i wish i was getting none but obviously that's not gonna happen it's always windy when i fish right about there i'm gonna hit that anchor button i heard the beep trolling motor spinning around on its own it's going to hold me right here we're going to throw some baits out real quick and see what happens we in the big time now pretty nasty bottom i wish the current was going better than what it is but it's just one of those years it's not running real hard right now it should be wide open in the month of may but it ain't either way i got some baits spread across this entire section of river which isn't very wide we're going to see if something meets one of them just enough wind to give me a bunch of aggravating boat spin one minute it's blowing down this way the next minute it's blowing back this way it just can't make up its mind makes a little noise while it's doing its thing but that's okay because i'm not doing anything i'll tell you what this time of year this would be a good place to fish for some skipjack they are moving up rivers towards the dams this time of year this is on the way to cherokee dam they'll come on up the river out of the tennessee some of them will go up the french broads some will go up the holston it'll give me something to do casting around while i'm waiting on one of these whiskered fish i always keep a skipjack rod on hand even if i don't catch a catfish here i may get some bait for another attempt somewhere else i've never fished here i believe i had a bite right there we're hooked up we hooked up oh two of them there we go i've seen some flipping going on out there like i say they're working their way up river this time of year we don't get a catfish we'll get some bait there they are i heard them break over there come almost try to get him in for that that school moves through they're traveling up at schools you won't get one for a little bit bam catch him back to back for a second either way we're getting debate [Music] and we hooked up [Music] i don't know what it is y'all it's been hot it's sunny all week stuck at work and then here i am on saturday other side of a cold front it's pretty chilly out here this morning chilly and windy i always get the wrong end of the deal when it comes to the weather oh oh we got numbers we got more than one [Music] oh yeah we loaded up [Music] we got at least two on there [Music] that trolling motor is working overtime trying to make up for this wind that keeps blowing either way i'm staying about the same spot i've got to learn how to use the ipilot to learn how to set tracks and all that i'm gonna drag the baits with it i'll set that trolling motor and i won't do nothing nothing but reeling fish it's gonna get easy [Music] come on baby come on baby come on baby two at a time two at a time stay on yeah [Music] i'm ready to go down river where there's some actual catfish and put this trolling motor to more paces come on mr skipjack [Music] all right people we're in downtown knoxville there's going to be some big boats here and some big waves i'm spot locked over a little bit of a hole right on the main channel close to the uh close to thompson bowling arena we're gonna drop a bait down here it's the middle of the day but i want to see how well this thing holds about got sunk by one boat on the way down here they're ridiculous and they'll ride right next to you [Music] it's the middle of the day that's okay because it is the month of may fish tend to want to play in the month of may as long as they're [Music] around [Music] i'll throw one out on the bottom until the boat starts swinging around and aggravating me this is kind of a longer hole this is this is like a hole in a hole that i'm suspended in but this hole extends out a little way so i can throw one towards the back of it on the bottom sitting here in spot lock no anchor down [Music] um [Music] is that a bite that's a bite that's a [Music] [Applause] [Music] bite [Music] not a bad fish good [Music] yeah yeah [Music] yeah buddy spotlight i don't know how good y'all are going to be able to see this fish because the sun's behind the camera but if you can't see it just take my word for it it's flathead yeah first fish on spot lock man [Music] yeah i'm gonna troll around for some skip jack on the way back to the next spot we're gonna go drag some baits i guess we'll get away from these big boats anyhow what's going [Music] i on for some skip jack yeah called any i did when i was anchored up river i just tried trolling on the way back they're all up and down this river this time of year yeah getting a catfish bait yeah fixing to head over to there's one right there go in yeah i'm out here trying that new uh eye pilot i got yes curious is that what it is pretty great yeah i haven't learned the uh the part where it courses itself yet that's what i'm going to go do when i go down the river but uh that's what we want right there yeah yeah i'm gonna do that dragon baits then i'm gonna try it out at a fort loud and down before it gets uh so that what's that on your little stand looks like a camera there yeah i make videos oh okay yeah you're on video okay good deal i'm using i'm used to that people usually video that looks cool man what you care just back down let me inspect all your stuff here real quick all right you can construct my stuff cool your registration everything looks good so let me check your license and a fire extinguisher a throwable yeah my throwables right there okay yeah it looks good [Applause] okay it looks good well now we can get back to uh trolling for skip jack got sidetracked here we go [Music] so [Music] [Music] whew [Music] you can't get them all [Music] [Music] so it's good enough for me i'm bait rich i just peed off the side of the boat and it was easy controlling that trolling motor with this eye pilot and remote i had one hand on my reamer and the other hand on the remote and i was able to control the boat either way we ain't caught jack squad over here in pickle park and this is fort loudoun i probably should have went to watts bar to make this video but there's 800 bass tournaments going on down there right now and i ain't fooling with it can't even get a spot at the ramp over there so we're going to keep going until we drag one up here we are out here in deeper water now and these fort loudoun fish are scared because there's so many catfishermen here so they usually stay deep it's about the only way you're going to conjure one up around here there's more catfisherman than there is catfish on this reservoir and they know it you could take that same cove and put it down a watts bar it'd fill up with fish in about five minutes you couldn't go this far in watts bar without running into a fish no way jose not any day there's about one fish for every thousand acres of water here so it's a lot more difficult well i'm hung up officially there she goes we're in a bad area here i keep trying to get hung up we need to get on i'm hung up on both rods we need to get out of this spot if i pop the other one loose we're going to hit the rabbit button and clear this spot matter of fact i'm gonna hit the rabbit button anyway it just keeps hanging up i just hit the rabbit button and we gonna cruise on out of this we'll be all broke off right there you hit the rabbit button and it's instant full speed ahead well i hope we don't get sunk we got them coming from both directions it's rough out here man all right y'all let's head back to another area back towards the ramp see if we can't conjure up a blue cat out of this dag-blasted fort lousy reservoir either way i'm liking my remote oh here we are i don't know if it can be any better than down there but we know it can't be no worse no matter how bad the fishing is here it's easier to control the boat with the minn kota eye pilot remote if i'm going to use up all this bait i caught today we're going to have to go to watts bar tomorrow and do that because there ain't enough catfish in this place to eat them there's a fish there's a fish i'll tell you what i'm gonna hit the anchor button to hold my boat still [Music] well we finally drug up a blue cat out of this dag blasted reservoir my boat's being held in place because i hit the spot lock the wind's blowing and i ain't going everywhere easy peasy man this stuff is pretty cool that's a rare sight right there a fort loudoun blue [Music] cat you don't see many of these around here i've been dragging that skipjack head for three hours out here i'm gonna throw it back out again on the way back to the dock but i am on the way back to the dock because i don't feel like staying out here around the clock i wanted to get one dragon we done it now all we do is hit the anchor button again and she is right back to i pilot i hit the little prop thing and there goes my little prop spinning around it shows me that it's spinning around i know i'm moving this stuff's pretty cool all right people i'm gonna keep fishing on the way back to the dock i don't know if i'll catch one or not if i do i do but either way stay tuned for part two of this video i tried to make it all in one day but it took too long to drag up a dag blasted blue cat in this fished out reservoir either way one flathead one blue and a ton of bait so i can make next week's video this is a video there was fish in the video that makes it a fishing video this is catfish dave with another one signing out

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 43,532

Rating: 4.9534049 out of 5

Keywords: Flathead Catfish, Blue Catfish, Fishing, Skipjack, Fort Loudoun Reservoir, Minn Kota Powerdrive, Spot Lock

Id: P_fu_Su-4cY

Length: 24min 7sec (1447 seconds)

Published: Mon May 03 2021