The Right Place At The Right Time

[Music] if y'all like these shirts look up ladycat outdoors on Facebook I believe she has a website and it's got a cool it's got a fine female with the catfish striped overs kind of a unique design anyway lady cut outdoors Johanna Renee she can get you these shirts she gave me this chair of the catfish conference um it's a bit of a flathead story and it's talking about working for that fish I'm gonna start out by saying I learned a lot about flat heads when I lived in a little town of West Virginia where there was no blue cats at all and it really wasn't a catfish River it was a very small River it was more of a trout river more of a smallmouth river but there were every so many miles a deep hole and there would be flat heads there so that's what I targeted and I'm gonna tell you you had to work to catch flat heads and the little guy on top River up there in Mingo County West Virginia but basically it's it's a story always remember it kind of taught me a lesson I found this one home just outside of Gilbert West Virginia and locals called it bull rock it was basically like I said shallow rivers shoals it dumped off into this deep hole just out of town and there was this huge rock sticking up out of the water I'm estimating this hole of water was 12 to 14 foot deep and it had a big rock about the size of my truck sticking out of it anyway the name of the place was called bull Rock well I figured there's gonna be a flathead in this river he's got to be here in this deep hole hiding up against this rock well I fished this place every evening after work went there with la blue gills never caught a fish for like a week caught snapping turtles never caught a flathead I went in there one night seven bluegills the Sun had just started to go down and in 15 minutes time I had landed seven flat heads and I was out of blue gills not had to go I think the biggest fish was like 26 pounds which was a big fish for that little bitty River but I always remembered that and I tried to thank you know why didn't I catch him those other times well I just went in there at the right time I was at the right place but not at the right time for whatever reason during the period I was going there they might have been hitting in the mornings they could have been hitting in the middle of the afternoon but I was obviously their actor of the bite and I come up with nothing but a snapping turtle until that one night when I probably could have caught every fish in the hole if I would've had enough blue gills why always remember that story well here in the Tennessee River flood hits are not the dominant species blue cats are it's easy to catch a blue cut especially spring tone it's pretty easy to catch a striper if you know what you're doing the flood heads are more elusive they bite when they bite of course you got to know where they live and once you establish that it's basically just about putting in the amount of work you need to to catch that fish one of these feeding try something a little different a little strip bait on one of them I know there's flat heads in this area and anything will hit a strip bait like this but sometimes that'll attract a flathead to basically I'm part it downstream of an island that buoy right over there is the point of the islands and I'm in the secondary smaller channel of the island over on that sides very very strong right dead in the middle there's kind of a break in the current don't really keep my boat straight so I'm anchored in this little secondary side channel coming around the island and I've got enough current to keep my boat straight but you and I can still put a bait over there into that slacker point and I can spread baits out this just looks to me like flat head heaven I could get a blue cat here certainly just because it's spring and they are moving but I really would like to see a flat head here this just looks like flood-hit heaven it's a May night water temperatures are still cool from all the rain we've had a lot of flooding this year we've had some very cool nights it was 30 it was freezing this morning actually May 9th and freezing frost warnings it's going to drop down to 45 degrees tonight either way it's May and I hope a flood head comes along and makes my day I'm anchored in 15 foot of water right here of course it sharply drops as it goes into that channel into about 40 foot water temps or 63 degrees one possibility is picking up a bunch of them dag-blasted fish with the stripes on fishing this part of the river this time of year it's very possible got some old ink picking on my Flay piece there that fillet piece could catch anything including a dink I don't want to catch a dank that would stink and it might not hurt to be a little farther out that way right on the drop-off but the fact I'm hunting flat heads I expect them to kind of be all around here anyway this is a slacker section of the current that breaks off of really hard current I see a lot of cutback in places they can live lot of timber that's kind of why I'm anchored in 15-foot it is my target fish is a flathead you know I can probably get off that shelf off there and hook a mixture of stripers and blues and probably even a flathead but I think the highest number of flat heads feeding it's gonna be right about here of course I don't know everything that's just my assumption I'm just a cat fisherman that's on that strip back the drag up there he's pulling some drag don't act like no flathead though he's gonna get in all my lines there get some drag they wouldn't surprise me if this is a stripers most drags it's fun don't get in my life more drag if it's a cat it's a good [Music] it's giving me head shakes like a bloke here [Music] on a Pullman that's heavy current [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm interested to see what I got here [Music] [Music] [Music] that's one of them dag-blasted fish with the stripes on them it sure it is I knew I could get them suckers in here I knew I could get them suckers in here this time of year there I want that piece of bait if it aint got whiskers it just don't count dag-blasted got some small fish pecking on my headpiece hey shut up up there dag-blasted goose [Music] I feel that catfish [Music] that's another one of those stripping cut off the tail section of skin like it all blue Kia [Music] [Music] fun-sized [Music] it's kind of bait I'm throwing they used to have a lot of success with this bait when I was young so I used to cut it actually just cut it to strip flutters in the current [Music] so far everything up Kotchman right off that Bank over there it's actually a point right there right there that seems to be the hot point so far or as I still ain't got my target fish I'm here because this is flathead heaven or at least I think it is I ain't never fished here it looked good on the map [Music] same spot [Music] that's probably another one that strikers [Music] yeah it's a strike [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] mold fish in the striped suit on the little strip base right up against the bank over dag-blasted I'm gonna throw a chunk over there just to see if it's the type of bait or if it's the spot I'm throwing it in usually that's what I catch them stripers on it's an old chunk we'll find out if that's what the deal is inquiring minds want to know we're starting to get into flathead our now maybe them old fish in the striped suit to leave me alone I don't expect a lot of blue cut in here other than the smaller stuff I would expect most of them to be just over the ledge of course at night I know they can go shallow I should be seeing a flathead that's why I'm here I knew those fish in the striped suits would be near I just hope they disappear so I can catch a flathead too much head shaking going on that sure ain't no flathead probably some old dink blue Oh dinky dink everything but a flathead y'all I'm here for a flat head party and so far everybody showed up with the flat heads now I know they here this ain't my first rodeo as far as flat heads though the night is really slow all right people I came here tonight for a flat head party and at first I thought they was just being tardy the night went on and I knew it was going to be slow I threw my bass for flat heads and the flood had simply said no no go no show so I went to the house with my tail stuck between my legs the next day I always remembered what happened to me in West Virginia how they're right there I just went there at the right time so I went back again where we go feels like a what what is it oh man dag-blasted largemouth bass you got to be kidding me he's lucky I've already got skipjack [Music] there goes that dag-blasted wind coming in here [Music] take them he's about to smash the rod holder right off the boat righto right off the boat that's a massive fish right there [Music] she acts like each other I'll go ahead [Music] [Music] [Music] finally the afternoon rolls on and I get this what I thought was a small bite and I'm just kind of making fun of the whole thing look at that look at mountainous snatch the rod holder off the back of the boat finally that fish keep staying interested and he looks like he's on the line a little bit and looks like I just need to reel down on that circle hook here we go hey you go on whatever it is now at this time I figured I had some old dink blue on there little did I know what was fixing to happen I guess I'll get him this is a condition video full of drag [Music] are y'all ready to see what [Music] let's see what it is I don't believe one of them dag-blasted [Music] [Music] it could be one of them flood heads I tried to get them out it's more like a flooded [Music] that sure don't feel like no striper to me [Music] [Music] [Music] closer nice pulling like a flathead they won't show up when you try to make a video come out here and say I'm all fish % lo little fish you hook a big fish [Music] [Music] I don't want to horse them because I don't want the hook to pop out I want to see what I got if he does get off I want to see what I got out of curiosity [Music] [Music] [Music] they're guys more drag hell he he still pulling drag hey that's got to be a big old flathead come on fishy fishy see what we got let's see what we got I want to see this fish what about y'all I've seen a big old jail I just seen a big old tail Big O tail [Music] come to Daddy that is a no that's a big blue here or that's a big blue kit that's a big ol blue kit come on mr. blue cat come on mr. bucket come to catfish day oh lordy ain't done yet [Music] it's pulling like a placket it is a flathead it is a plat on those pole knocking flying everybody's not fat daddy to picture fish actually he barely gets in this net ain't long but he's super girthy you got a whole lot of girth see if we can host him up Oh Lord woohoo river fun getting it done all that blood right there it's coming from right there where that must add demon hook was not ain't from his gills yeah whoo I'm happy with it not even dark yet and this is where I tried to come and get flat heads and they mold fish with the stripes on them crash my party there he goes straight to the bottom he figures he's a lot safer from catfish Dave down on the bottom if I was a fish I wouldn't want to be no around me either well there it is people I remembered the story from my fishing days in West Virginia I remembered once I establish I think they're at a spot I just need to keep work in that spot it could happen the very first time I go it may take days for it to happen you just never know about these crazy flood heads they're probably the most elusive of the catfish species in my opinion I'll put in the work I got the fish hope there's a less than this for y'all guys that get big fish and do it on a regular basis they flat out put out the work you know they do what they have to do they're not lazy about it you have to put in the work and you have to be at the right place at the right time anyway people I wore this shirt and I'm dedicating this video to Johanna Renee who basically that's what she does in her neck of the woods is target big flathead she's quite good at it considering it's probably not the best area of the country to catch him and she has my respect hope you all enjoyed this video this is a video there was fish in the video that makes it a fishing video this is catfish table another one signing out [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 148,440

Keywords: Flathead Catfish, Blue Catfish, Stripers, Tennessee River, Fishing, Tennessee, West Virginia

Id: owS3Ep6RAAM

Length: 33min 13sec (1993 seconds)

Published: Fri May 15 2020