Rod & Reel Drift Fishing For Big Blue Catfish With WetHook Guide Service
The winds have made it challenging the past couple of weeks to drift fish in water 10 -12 feet deep; but, using a wind sock to slow the drift has produced some real nice fish. This fish pictured was caught on a drift trip with Carl Bostick with WetHook Guide Service. Carl says that you need to get up early to catch shad and then try and keep them alive for as long as you can. He baits with a drift weight on the bottom with the hook about three feet off the bottom tied on with a loop that is at least three inches to let the bait float free as you drift. He has been getting in creeks with some shelter from the wind to set up his drift. You don’t catch a “BIG” one on every drift; but, you can fill a box with some nice catfish and a “BIG” one or two on each trip. Cut gizzard shad are also good bait cut up in small pieces or shrimp if you just don’t have any other bait. Carl will put out as many as seven rods on each drift and this can keep you real busy if you run into a school of 3 to 5 pound fish.
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Nice catfish. Not sure if anyone reads this page because there are so few comments; but, in case you do, we got a limit of hybrids at daylight today (Saturday 18th) in and around Bird Island. The shad were eveywhere and the hybrids were feeding on the shad. We were throwing Rat-L-Traps in silver. The large ones you get at Academy.
I’m reading it – hook line and sinker, ready to sign up for a trip, for real.
Bill in Spring
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You’ll want varied fishing rods for other angling circumstances. The best factor for this is that often it helps you actually reel in far more fish. Should the completely wrong fishing gear are being selected, hits will likely be far more hard to spot, and consequently not as much fish are caught