Saturday Morning Catfish on the James River

I headed out to the Jamestown Ferry on Saturday morning to pick up a catfish dinner and try out my new Humminbird 561 Fishfinder. Mission accomplished on both accounts. Everyone has told me that a fishfinder would change the way I fish and I have to say that I agree. It was nice to know what depth I was casting into. I paddled around a bit to get a good picture of the bottom surface and then dropped a few lines in the area that i had scouted out. Within minutes I had hooked up to a smaller 18 inch Channel Cat. I proceeded to pull in two more around the same size, one a Blue Cat and the other one a Channel

Then I got ahold of this guy that came in around 25 inches. All of these fish were caught within a 2.5 hour time block using shrimp for bait.

I'm looking forward to getting out on some saltwater in the next month. Weather reports seem to indicate another cold spell and then things should start to get warmer... This means some trips out to CBBT.  Come on warm weather!  

Late night catfishin

Catfish on the Chick

Tried my hand at trolling around the Chickahominy in my new Ocean Kayak Trident 13. Caught a big ol' catfish by surprise off Blank Point as I rounded the point headed South. The tide had just changed and I coul see the channel in the center of the river start to really move. I was trolling a bass assassin 4" Paddletai. Once the cat took the bait i thought i had just snagged up again for the 10th time or so but when I checked my line it pulled back. I knew it was on then. The cat pulled me back North East into the channel but I mannaged to pull him up slowly but surely. 13lbs and 27"