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Post by bambooaddict on Sept 22, 2016 13:04:45 GMT -6
Fished the main channel yesterday (21 Sept) from mid-day til evening. Quiet (nothing) for the first hour, then BAM!!! Totaled 12 cats, two carps, two drums and 7 sauger. Hooked and fought another 8 to 10 cats and three carps (foul hooks with scales on the fly to confirm it). Most of the action was from 13:00 to 17:00ish. In the next hour I managed a cat and a carp, and the seven saugers all came after six. All cats were above 30 inches, half were 36 inches and one was 39 inches. Surface action everywhere, carps and cats. As I was fighting what was to be a 36 inch cat (landed that one) I saw my most impressive sight at Lockport since I started fishing there in 2012. For about 30 seconds the surface of the water around me started bubbling like crazy! Everywhere tails and heads of catfish splashing. Hard to give a number, but a conservative 30+ heads and tails constantly showing throughout that timeframe gives a fair idea. I got hit in the legs three times in about 10 seconds. The only shore fisherman present was 100 meters away and he saw the same thing. Where is the go-pro when you need one?!!!!! 1. Pic of 36 incher taken by a lady who happened to come by. 2. My first tagged cat, 36 incher. Yes I phoned in my report 3. Pic of the 39 incher, no one around at that time. Again "go-pro" where are you? .
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Post by rockbass09 on Sept 22, 2016 20:06:23 GMT -6
Great job! I was out there this evening. Lots of carp and cats breaching everywhere. May I ask what were you using? I was tossing a black ddh leech and getting consistent hits from sauger. I'd like to hook into a couple carp though, I could feel them hitting my line and had two snagged before coming off.
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Post by bambooaddict on Sept 22, 2016 22:18:44 GMT -6
It's a secret and as the saying goes: "if I tell you l'll have to k... you!". Just kidding! In the first hour I used a couple of DDHs - black and olive, a blood sucking leech with which I have had great success at Lockport this year and a wooly bugger. They produced nothing. Then I switched to a streamer I improvised over a month ago just for fun. No-name fly for now. I don't know if that fly woke all the slimy creatures up, or they just decided to wake up at 13:00, but that's when it got real crazy for a few hours and quite busy for the next two. I got more than half of my cats/carps on that fly until I hooked bottom and lost it. Only one I had. I then switched to clousers and caught several more. Clousers needed to have orange. I normally prefer black and orange, but white and orange and chartreuse and orange worked just as well yesterday. The no-name fly I used is very easy to tie:
# 6 standard length steamer hook, black tread, bead chain eyes à la DDH, black marabou tail, usual shank length, grey mallard flank feather as hackle around the shank to behind the eyes - may need more than one feather, orange hackle feather from behind the eyes, crisscrossing over the eyes and a few wraps in front of the eyes, build a small tread head, tie off, cement and go fishing.
Got to tie a few in the morning as I might go back to Lockport for the afternoon tomorrow. May tie a size 4 just to try.
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Post by bambooaddict on Sept 23, 2016 20:43:04 GMT -6
Back at Lockport today. Fished from 13:00 to closing time. Another 12 cats, one carp, one drum, one goldeye and half a dozen saugers. Hooked and lost at least as many fish, mostly cats. Surface action everywhere, particularly during evening hours. Contrary to Wednesday the action did not die down after 17:00. GO TRY IT!
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Post by Dale Martens on Sept 24, 2016 1:09:54 GMT -6
A feeding frenzy... Cool....
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Post by petroh on Sept 25, 2016 15:09:56 GMT -6
Went out yesterday from 3:30-8 and it was fairly good. 4 Cats, one was 34" and another was 38", a carp which was fair hooked, a quillback that I didn't get a picture of since it slipped out of my hand midway, 2 sauger, and 2 goldeye. It started off good with the quillback and carp, then died down for about an hour then I got the 36" cat, and then it died down abit again, and in the evening I saw a school of fish splashing in the distance, so with nothing to lose, casted there and caught the 38" cat there, that spot produced well for the next hour or so for me and the others that were there until it completely died down in the evening. Water had dropped yesterday about a foot and the shoals were visible. Carp had a really red tail (hard to see in pic), thought it was a huge redhorse sucker at first, but then he decided to show his face. Picture was taken on one of the shoals. 38" cat; hes a little dirty since he dragged me all the way to the green buoy downstream.
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Post by rockbass09 on Sept 25, 2016 16:02:37 GMT -6
Water has risen due to the rainfall and the shoals have disappeared. The main channel is still wadeable, saw a fisherman standing out there while driving by today.
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Post by daved on Sept 29, 2016 11:43:51 GMT -6
Awesome , Thanks for sharing your adventure.... Make's me want to go out and try for some of those Cat's or Carp...
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