Summer Misery: The Worst Time To Fish

[Applause] whoo [Applause] [Applause] [Music] that didn't take long at all like bluegill [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a little bitty old flathead [Music] [Applause] all right people kept fish Dave here it's a fourth of July and basically I'm fishing a little bitty River right next to the house Pigeon River downtown well it's a little out of downtown Sevierville that's Boyd's Creek Bridge right above me just can't ground right over there I made a video here called back to my roots basically I am here because to be quite honest the fishing is terrible it's pretty much terrible everywhere it's hot some fish are still on the nest some fish ain't on the nest you know it's a it's not a great time of year I don't get excited about it which is why I'm here I didn't have to drive far you know I got a few little blue gills some cuts shad to be honest with you I expected most of my fish to come on the live bluegill because it seems like in this hot water especially in the middle of the day like this this time of year that seems to be what gets the action you know cut bait is great spring time winter time fall and can work good in the summer if you're using it at key times like in the morning or late at night it's about a 6 o'clock in the evening I got a little bit of overcast skies had some thunderstorms in the area I don't expect much here but some channel cat and possible flood hits like we just sing I made an attempt on a smaller River which is known as poplar Creek last weekend I went up there basically with the intention of finding some flat heads in a spot that I had never fished I had really large live bluegill live shell cracker and that's a dandy of a bluegill right there that's what a lot of bait looks like right there now good-sized shell cracker got a small blue right away bluegill ran like a blue but who knows little bitty old blue cat ate my monster bluegill man see that being sticking out I knew that was a little bit of a hard bite to be a flathead but I want my bluegill back man but he ain't gonna give it to me give me my bluegill back shoot ain't gonna give me my bluegill but that's a big ol blue gill man a little bitty ol blue cat swallowed it like it was nothing ouch he's swallowing that bluegill right now tails just about all gone man I guess he wants it I guess I'm getting that bluegill bet that's a big ol blue gill man little ol blue cat ate that thing anyway I stuck it out till after dark I ended up hooking a very small flathead on a Big Show cracker on a float and he ended up getting off on me probably a four pound flat here trying to swallow a one-pound shell cracker something might've just got ahold of my shell cracker anyway the rest of the night I stuck it out and I pretty much just kept getting what I thought was gar bites they pull on it you just couldn't hook you know so I assumed they were gar I was getting a tat by bugs I packed up and left made an attempt at a Fort Loudoun dam one night last week and as soon as I got set up fishing on the Loch Here Come this tug pushing for barges and I was like oh no this going to take forever and it did that barge showed up about 7:30 in the evening [Applause] [Music] [Music] ain't never tried to catch a skipjack with the barge making a bunch of racket I just choked on a bug sure anyway I think this barge is running off the deck but it's good jack nothing was already going to be tough now I got this thing sitting in front of me and he's trying to push all this through a lock and I know he ain't gonna get it through a 1-run so he's going to be here awhile and he might go jacking up my lines are getting me all hung up so if I see my lines doing something crazy as this barge comes through I'll have to pull in and let him get done with his business he must've knew I was coming here today because he showed up just in time [Music] in about 10:30 at night he was still there couldn't fish because he'd move up pull back move up and he was generating so much current he kept washing all my lines way over to up on the bank so at 10:30 I finally gave up and just packed up well I've just flat out had enough of this this dude's been here for over two hours stirring up the water man I finally get both rods back out I think he's going upriver now he backs right back down here I'm washed up both rods right up on the bank again I've had enough of this I'm out of here I fished this River previously during the channel cat spawn and ended up getting some fish I never showed the video but I did end up getting a couple fish during the spawn during that time [Music] try now get this channel cat brought up into my flour egg that's going downriver [Music] not a bad channel kit get them out of my lines [Applause] [Applause] doubt lost that one look at the color on that channel kit [Applause] basically I'm just taking it easy man I don't get excited about summer i hook very few big fish in the summer off the bank for the most part it's it's slow action tend to get a lot of smaller fish springtime fall that's my key time that's when I really hit it hard rest of the year I take it easy man I like winter basically I like everything but summer I hate summer it's hot it's miserable too many bugs too many people jet skis boats can't stand the heat sweating at night I think I'll title this video summer misery I had to make a video because I got a YouTube channel I just had a hit on a cut bait right there very small bites very likely that's a turtle and I don't need none of that yeah that's got to be a turtle old turtle baited my cut bait that old cut bluegill head I just thought didn't take long and it got it bite already what much of a bite won't be long we'll start hearing fireworks I'm sure [Applause] there they go with them old fireworks [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] you you [Applause] gosh [Applause] well I took the little dead bluegill off and I put a fresh live one on I'll hit the dang tree and there went my fresh live bluegill so I put the dead bluegill back on I hit the tree again now I don't have any bluegill looks like it's cut bait only looks like there goes my flathead chances you can still get a flathead on a cut bait it just ain't near as likely during this part of summer when this water gets hot uh-oh something hit that cut bait already something smacked it what no flathead I'm sure but anyway you're most likely going to get a flat head in this part of summer on a live bait I get them in the winter I get them in the spring I get them in the fall on cut bait this time of year you better have live bait Oh something hit that bluegill head on the bottom right about the tongue that float got hit could be gar [Applause] I hope not because I hate gar just a little bit longer people when we're packing that's a dag-blasted turtle Oh something hit that cupcake well something hit that cut bait on the float move that float pretty good and the fact that didn't get hooked I'm gonna call it agar just a little bit longer I can video for dark not much all right people it's just about getting dark so I'm out alive bluegills that was the only thing I was really excited about anyway this cut bait in here seems to be a garden turtle attractive so this is summer it is miserable probably gonna see me doing some close to home videos through the summer when the fall gets here I'll get excited I'll be catching fresh skipjack again I'll be catching big blues again and it'll be a whole different kind of video this is a video there was a fish in the video that makes it a fishing video this is catfish day with another one signing out

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 36,602

Rating: 4.9238753 out of 5

Keywords: Catfish, Fishing, Bank Fishing, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Bluegill, Shellcracker

Id: Fprrdr2qcRU

Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 09 2019