Shallow Water Flatheads

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] y'all have seen me use many a style of rod holders out here Bank fishermen Bank fishing but uh what I just set up over there is called the rock style of rod holder [Music] [Music] [Music] if they're active at all I should get the first flathead right before dark I just brought my bucket style abroad holder out here because I had to carry a lot of stuff pretty good distance from the truck so what you see me set up over there is a rock style of rod holder works well out here you know you can't bring a rod holder with you plenty of rocks around make a rod holder so you see me use a lot of different rod holders bucket style tackle box style rock style stomp style tree style the style I've even used an offence before at one spot all different types of rod holders out there they all catch fish they all work I've been waiting on this shallow water flood hit bite for all spring it happens every year this year it happened late because we had a late winter freezing weather all the way up into mid-april and so it's about two weeks late this year typically in my part of Tennessee it generally happens around the last week of May on a normal year won't be staying out real late because it's a work night but basically just trying to demonstrate the shallow water flathead bite that happens every late spring main channel way out there deep water deep water deep water and he'll come up into these shallow coves and flats and stuff to spawn my biggest one out here last year I only fished it a couple of times at this spot was a thirty-six pounder I'm a little downbeat today been under the weather some kind of stomach flu or something I don't know what I got ain't been feeling good either way if there's a fish going bite I'm gonna be out there get some of the people out of this park it'll quiet down a little bit flat heads don't like a bunch of noise dude flying a drone behind me I don't think they like the radio waves either of course you I guess you've seen the kayaks trying to run over my fishing lines that happens every trip this time of year my bait isn't as fresh as I want it to be typically I like a just caught that day skipjack but I didn't have time to do it today so these skipjack are about 24 hours old on ice they can still work if these fish are hungry I just hope I don't get attacked by a small blue cat typically there's a bunch of small blues in here about the time that this happens so I can hear that little drone buzzing above my head if I had a gun I'd shoot it down I can't stand a bunch of racket noise out on the river [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there's one little dinky blue cats I was talking about that harass you there went my headpiece [Music] [Music] that ain't what we're after let's try that again [Music] [Music] Radha's the lights turned on you might be running huh [Applause] funny though there was big that we get the life still no flathead spy steel-blue kit though let me get your picture you want a picture yeah I said I'm never getting in this like yen ever oh wow that was oh he's about 18 pound probably I've never seen one [Applause] I've been hitting the hole with that one rod and it's got two fish that one the left I didn't hit a hole it didn't drop at all that cast I just done with the other rod it didn't hold hit a hole because I had such a small bait on there I didn't get no distance so I'm probably going to move that one on the left and don't try to get it more to the right see if I can hit that hole with it too [Music] whatever I'm hung up on it [Music] the power of an D monster 40-pound pulled in a cinderblock with the rope on it somebody's boat anchor an D monster blue get you song it's just now getting dark and so far we've got two blue cats and a boat anchor we're after flathead so that means actually I'm Scott right now so far [Music] usually if there's a plot head but usually usually given one right at dark that's if they're biting in numbers and biting good and still more don't mean we won't get at least one but they're here maybe the mold blue cats left out of here fine with me I'm after a flathead I mean I'll take you a blue now if he wants to get over 50 pounds go ahead and bring him on but I doubt you see anything like that in here at this spot this time of year but you never know just one flat heads all I want to see that'll make a flathead catfish and video for me so far I'm skunked Oh flathead bite is usually subtle and slow but when you set that hook on him that's when you let you know I want to see that thing just Bob just a little bit like that maybe just a hair or clicker that's usually that sure telltale clicker sound of a flathead and sometimes they don't give you no clicker sound at all 99% of the time it's the most subtle bite of the catfish [Music] [Music] see how subtle that bite was flathead on [Music] [Music] I believe this one here [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I just swallowed a dang bug right the middle of a flathead video there it is people what'd I tell you shall the water flathead catfish day yeah this is Gail she met me Facebook catfish paid just she's out here kept fishing too but uh look at this looks like compared to her gonna release this fish real quick one more time people set all the water flat heads with catfish Dave [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he soaked me when he took off he's ready to get on out of here they see catfish today they getting real scared oh there's that catfish named guy he's gonna catch us all the talk is out there those fish fear me people as soon as I get Duke open up this bug remember what I told y'all nine times out of ten a flathead isn't the most subtle bite sometimes you barely see it sometimes you don't see it I see really looking I just barely seen the line you know I said that's him I knew it said it man there he was he pulled hard I released my drag a couple times that drag start to stick on that dial it's about three years old it's caught a lot of big fish it's not ready for some drag washers so a cheap Sealine hundred twenty dollar real I've got three years of hard fishing my biggest giant blue cat was caught on that another one close to 70 pounds as PO how many other fish so that's been a good real yeah I got my hundred twenty-five dollars worth the head of it I have had flat heads hit hard like really hard like screaming like a striper I've had him come up out of the water like a bass three or four times when they hit shell of water but ninety nine out of a hundred of them there's a very subtle bite and a lot of cat fishermen missing all right people I gotta work next day so I knew they'd be out there somewhere but uh like I say my youtube career kinda started out here my first flat heads on video were taken out here even though it wasn't my channel so now that I got my own channel I thought I'd this would be kind of like a little reunion video it's about that same time of year same place I caught a about that same size sweat head last year anyway hope y'all enjoy this video and thanks for all the subscribers the comments and - I got a spider and to the guys that are unliking on my videos thanks for watching them - views of you negative comments all that counts so thank you all - guess I'm gonna get on out of here see what we can get into this weekend I'm not sure if this fight will be over with by then it doesn't last real long I'm still wanting to take advantage of some high water situations and other places too but this is catfish day signing out [Music] [Music]

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 103,502

Keywords: Fishing, Blue Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Catfishing, Tennessee River, Knoxvile Tennessee

Id: oVI9bNST_R8

Length: 24min 4sec (1444 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 17 2018