Quick Fishing Report --- Just Scaly fish though =(

My normal fishing trip on Saturday got squashed -- My wife was sick with food poisoning -- So my attempt to catch shad and keep them alive was all for not ... However on Sunday she was feeling a lot better =), so I decided to go out Sunday afternoon ....

Got to Nickajack around 3:30 in the afternoon .... Fiddled around - tried to catch some shad , all I could catch were huge Gizzard shad that were so big they looked more like Drum than shad .. lol .... Caught a few skip jack and drifted some cut bait -- Not even a bite -- ughhh ---

I then made a decision to see if I could keep some smaller skippies alive ... I took my big round 25 - 30 Gallon plastic tub and filled it with water - Put a little shad keeper in , some ice and hooked up the infusor .... I then proceeded to catch about 30 - 35 small skippies - I would estimate 6" , however they were very hardy and you could tell they had been gourging themselves .... They did well and in the next couple of hours -- They all stayed alive w/ the exception of 2 ... I was pretty excited about that ...

I figured I had about two hours before dark and if I drifted some live skippys in the swift water - I could catch some stripers and may have a shot at a big Flathead ..... Although no flatheads graced my presence =( ... The next two hours were filled with striper after striper -- I caught so many my arm was sore ... No really huge fish -- The largest was 20# -- Most of them were in the 10 - 12# range -- Very hardy and good fighters .... Hope I can catch a Catfish soon .. I am jonesing for a big blue ...