The Great Day After Thanksgiving Catfish Round Up...

This might be a record for time between lake trips but the last time we fished Rayburn was mid September. There has been some beach fishing and a canoe trip to Old Dam B but with so much time since we had our fingers on the pulse of the noble catfish made us have to scramble a bit for fish today. Especially since we invited a few folks over for a catfish fry scheduled for tomorrow. They said, "have you caught a lot of fish?" We said, "no we haven't caught any." 

It was slower than we like but I did not have to take any anxiety meds as we managed to put 29 cats in the boat all caught from deeper water at the edge of the old river channel. At first the fish seemed like they were going to run small but we did wind up with about half the catch being good solid fish.    

I note from looking at the old fishing record that this time of the year has sometimes found the fish in the shallows and sometimes deep. Being that the lake is low with no water around the bushes where they like to hide I chose deep but catfish live everywhere in the lake and they might have been cruising the exposed sandy banks. 

Cathy lands a good one but Matt might have caught several of the best fish today. I don't care as long as I'm on the fish fry list. 

Fall colors are doing well and some of the areas we fished exposed to the north wind were pretty cool. Maybe I am broken in enough to the East Texas winter that I will venture a duck hunt soon.