First Fishing Report 2015...

We had a successful road test of Cathy's replaced left shoulder (Done on Dec. 2, 2024) with our first fishing trip of 2025. With Cathy, her brother Matt and myself we totaled 19 cats in 2-3 hours fishing, wore shorts, no shirts and had a great time with family and friends for a fish fry afterwards. 

The fish were in the area of the lake called the Canyon. The area has islands, underwater humps, a flooded rail road tram and the fish were 4 feet deep. We fished punchbait under slip corks. This has been our go to spot for a couple of years and we haven't fished our old shallow water favorites in the Deer Stand area of the lake, The Place and The Horseshoe very often at all. Maybe one day again we will give those a try.

Cathy gives the shoulder a good work out netting a fish for Matt. That's my fish hanging in the foreground and get a good look at our rigs. We use some of the Bass Pro Shops Thill style floats but the old saltwater popping corks work well also.

This channel cat was one of the smaller fish of the day. Half our catch was blue cats. You can see us tried up close on the bushes and I doubt we cast much over 20' feet to the fish. 

It's getting to be tats out fat's out weather. Lots of interesting fishing log info for this day. Cathy caught her first retirement fish on this day in 2022. In 2019 we caught them shallow with a wind chill of 33. 

Cathy flexing the guns for her 7.3 pound blue cat. I bet the 4 biggest weighted 20 pounds and all total went a good 35-40 on the hoof. 

WE had spent the prior evening trading fishing stories with Chuy and Maria so we gave them a call to come eat. There were more fish stories. The Zamoras came and they ate catfish like it was their job. We managed to hang on to a couple of the big fillets for some later fancy cooking, Matt took enough for a dinner and this morning we delivered a serving to Father D who is laid up with a back surgery. I might be able to make a po-boy later with our left overs. 

We have a couple of camper trips planned but might look at a date for Hanks Creek camping and cooking soon. If you see us stop by.