Posts by Hawkeye
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The Texas & World record was 121 lbs. 8 oz. and it was an incredible catch, and IS a beautiful fish... I've seen the pictures of her swimming in the huge tank they have for display at the TP&W HQ ... Our state record was just broken twice this year, and although it's still nearly twenty pounds short of the Texas/world record @ 92 pounds it was a pretty big catfish.
I'm one of the rookies here... the pros are out fishing. I'm nursing a sore back and a broken boat motor....
I'm one of the rookies here... the pros are out fishing. I'm nursing a sore back and a broken boat motor....
Naw.... the sore back is related to the crashed car... long story, as is the broken boat. I'll be fine soon, I'm sure... went and has xrays Friday to make sure nothing is broken in the back, and if they check out, I'm going to get the chiropractor to re-arrange a few bones and take care of strained (I hope) muscles. The motor was "rebuilt" and broke the crank after about 30 minutes running time... I guess I'll never trust a "rebuild" again, unless I see it done, or do it myself.
I've never been to Palmyra, Va. but most of Virginia, North Carolina, Tenn., Kentucky and the rest of the states bordering on the Blue Ridge, share some beautiful landscape. My only complaint, if I had one, would be the hurricanes.... I love just about everything else about where we live. Waverly is a lot closer to the ocean than it is to the mountains, so it's more or less flat with a feew little hills around here... still very pretty, especially in the spring..... If you get up here to visit, you'll have to let me know. Maybe we can arrange to take you catfishing.....
I've never been to Palmyra, Va. but most of Virginia, North Carolina, Tenn., Kentucky and the rest of the states bordering on the Blue Ridge, share some beautiful landscape. My only complaint, if I had one, would be the hurricanes.... I love just about everything else about where we live. Waverly is a lot closer to the ocean than it is to the mountains, so it's more or less flat with a feew little hills around here... still very pretty, especially in the spring..... If you get up here to visit, you'll have to let me know. Maybe we can arrange to take you catfishing.....
I'm lucky like that too... the Chesapeake Bay, lower James River and Atlantic Ocean are just an hour or two driving distance from me, so we enjoy some good "bluewater" fishing too. NightTrain lives about an hour and fifteen minutes to the South of me, on Lake Gaston, and there's a heck of a lot of good fishing to be had on Gaston and Buggs Island lakes too.... I live half a mile from the Nottoway River, which has been flooded almost constantly for three years now, and it is a great freshwater fishery for bass, bream and cats too... if and when I can get out there and the water doesn't look like chocolate milk... keep us in mind, and when you visit I'll do what I can to put you on some fish. I don't believe there's a trip to Texas in my immediate future, but I'll do the same, should I get the chance to pay the Lone Star State a visit.....
I did a little digging for information on Sommerville Lake:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lakesome/
There isn't much in the way of information there. One thing that struck me as being particularly odd (maybe it isn't odd to any of you who live near this body of water) was the incredible difference in the lake level. Quote from the above web page: "Elevation ranges from 190 to 496 feet above mean sea level"
I would be inclined to fish the lake during periods of rising water, if possible, concentrating on flats adjacent to deep water during the time of water elevation increase. If that isn't possible, I'd look for flats or humps (you'll need a topographic map and a depth finder for that) and fish the flats and or humps at night. I would choose the flats by the proximity to the deepest holes in the lake, or by how close they are to the main channel.... As far as bait... find out what kind of bait fish are in the lake and concentrate on catshing some of that either in a minnow trap or cast net and use cut bait or whole live baits fished at varying depths on and around the flats, humps or flooding areas. I would prefer to present baits in the slopes where the deeper water "connects" to the flats, since that is where I would expect the fish would come from.
Again, this is all just speculation, having never fished the lake... one last point... Catfish, while considered to be slow and stupid by some, are definitely a predatory fish. Being a predator, they can easily be caught in the same kinds of areas as other predatory fish... points where ridges meet the waterline, and pockets in the shoreline with deep water nearby... drifting with live minnows under a bobber and another couple on the bottom might be the most effective way to locate fish. The best way to figure it out is to get out there and give 'em a try. Good luck!
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lakesome/
There isn't much in the way of information there. One thing that struck me as being particularly odd (maybe it isn't odd to any of you who live near this body of water) was the incredible difference in the lake level. Quote from the above web page: "Elevation ranges from 190 to 496 feet above mean sea level"
I would be inclined to fish the lake during periods of rising water, if possible, concentrating on flats adjacent to deep water during the time of water elevation increase. If that isn't possible, I'd look for flats or humps (you'll need a topographic map and a depth finder for that) and fish the flats and or humps at night. I would choose the flats by the proximity to the deepest holes in the lake, or by how close they are to the main channel.... As far as bait... find out what kind of bait fish are in the lake and concentrate on catshing some of that either in a minnow trap or cast net and use cut bait or whole live baits fished at varying depths on and around the flats, humps or flooding areas. I would prefer to present baits in the slopes where the deeper water "connects" to the flats, since that is where I would expect the fish would come from.
Again, this is all just speculation, having never fished the lake... one last point... Catfish, while considered to be slow and stupid by some, are definitely a predatory fish. Being a predator, they can easily be caught in the same kinds of areas as other predatory fish... points where ridges meet the waterline, and pockets in the shoreline with deep water nearby... drifting with live minnows under a bobber and another couple on the bottom might be the most effective way to locate fish. The best way to figure it out is to get out there and give 'em a try. Good luck!
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