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Steelwolve · Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Columbus

Great night in the rain!

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Well after being skunked at the tournament on Hoover, Mike and I decided to put in some work on the river (Scioto). With the weather pattern seeming pretty much the same I was skeptical, but since Ive bought the boat Ive only had 3 skunks and was eager to get this one off my back. We left Sunday night armed with a dozen fresh frozen shad at about 8:30pm. The river was flowing strong and made for anchoring near structure kinda scary. We ran through our bait pretty quick, between losing em to snags and fish, we were down to nothing pretty quick. We did end up getting 3 small Flatheads (2-4lbs ) and 1, 7# channel. But knowing how they were biting, I was anxious to get back. So Monday evening I loaded up the boat, drove to Hoover threw the cast net about a hundred times and got only 11 live shad ( I cannot catch shad in the sun light?) So we ended up buying a few goldfish and chubs at the bait store. We headed out to the river and it began to rain, we were well prepared so we trucked on. After setting up on our first spot I nailed a 8lb Flat, and with the current he felt like 20 coming in. That was so far the biggest of the year on not too far off from my PB of 13lbs, I missed a few off and Mike caught a 4lber. As I was contemplating a spot change my pole started that slow bend and I wasn't sure If I was caught up or not, when I picked it up I knew it was a fish, and a big one at that. I fought it for about ten mins before I got it near the boat and spent another 15 trying to horse it up off bottom, after almost capsizing trying to net it, we landed a 38 inch 23lb flathead (I'm going to calibrate my scales cause man it felt like 30#) This was by far the funnest/biggest fight I ever had. Man I just don't see how they can be 60lbs, after landing that one I have a new respect for all of you guys that consider that a small one. Then while reeling in a pole to check bait I had another one on this one went 14lbs. I had beat my old PB twice in one night. Soon we ran outta shad again and tried the small chubs and goldfish catching a couple more 4-5 lb fish. All last year we caught a total of 6 Flatheads and so far 2008 we have 9. Sorry for the long post, but I'm still excited about that fish.

That was my post over on OGF, click the Katboyz link below to see the Pics, (you may want to turn your speakers down 1st.) the first slide show is from this year and the one at the bottom of the page is from last.
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neocats1 · Shad Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 37 Location: Lodi, Ohio

congrats on the good trip. Hopefully you have many more like it.
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KillerNuts · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a heck of a night. Congrats on the fish. I am hoping to get some time to get out and go for some flatties soon. Time has been very limited. I did make it out this last Saturday and fished a tourny on Sunday. My fiance and myslef got 2nd and less than 1lbs behind Dave Funk, who won it.

Congrats again on the fish. Looking forward to seeing you all this Saturday.