This Might Be The Only Catfish Report For September...

A lot happened this weekend and more stuff will happen this coming week. Life is tough on blog writers getting it all down but one thing that's important is recording the catfish count for any fishing trips so we get that yearly total correct. 

We ambled out to the lake, leaving mid morning which has become our usual lazy departure time. Most people think the best fishing times are early and late. I have news for you. Fishing are biting somewhere on the lake at all times. Fisherman just have to be in the same spot as a hungry school. 

The morning started out hot and still. Some people were fooling around making selfies while others, for whom life is not a joke were trying to find fish.  

We began catching a few in our usual deep spots on punch bait fished on the bottom 29 feet deep and the action might have picked up as the wind shifted out of the north. A little wind never hurts the fishing and it certainly cooled down the fishermen. 

With cooling temps we have had luck shallow slip corking during the fall but it seems like the past several years the deep spots have been our best from late summer till late winter. 

September 1st a new regulation went into effect that all catfish under 12 inches are keepers. We did not keep any under 12. 

Brother in law Matt holds up a good one. 

Final count was 33 catfish. Of course we could have harvested more but this turned out to be just right. We arrived home to find our old neighbor, Bob, whose step son lives next door to us using his personal tractor to fill holes in our short, dead end county road. We gave a mess of fillets to Bob and his wife Robbie for being such good neighbors and then had enough left to feed us and the Zamora family. 

Sometimes my grandson Ezra comes to me and says "catch catfish" and sometimes he says "eat catfish." He was happy to "eat catfish."