Late Summer Fishing Report...

Before I retired I fished a lot during the week because I worked a lot on weekends. Now I find myself fishing weekends since that's when family and friends are available. With late summer and warm temps  the crowds on the lake are a bit smaller than in the early summer months but I still find the parking at the boat ramp crowded enough that I count walking up the ramp to a distant space my retired guy exercise for the day. 

Here Matt and Morgan throw cast nets at the boat dock. I can make an educated prediction from previous experience and tell you that if shad and big red horse shiners are bunched up on the concrete boat ramp or cruising the sandy bottom next to the dock the cats will be shallow and the floating noodle fishing will be good. I think they captured one bait by net. We headed out to fish deep.  

I would say that the cats have been a bit slow this summer. In addition to catching them Matt picked up this nice schooling bass and Morgan hooked a few throw backs. They were hitting the old reliable Hot Spot with lots of schooling shad over the deep open water.  

I guess we need a first aid kit for the boat. This is Cathy's blood from a very minor scape that left no damage but much to Ezra's consternation produced a lot of blood. You should have seen the outside of the boat. There was more down the side there. 

Final count 18 cats and bass.