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Friday nights adventure on a new stretch of river.

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Jamie(jtk15) and I headed to a new stretch of river friday night. The stretch we were on was low but managable in most spots. We did beach the boat once but was able to get it off without too much work. A couple of parts of the river narrowed down to about 18-20ft wide and we got to a point on the river where only a canoe could make it in such narrow skinny water. We got to a spot between two large snags, about an hour and a half after we were totally soaked from sweat baiting our hook, Jamie caught a 25lb flattie.

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It was the longest 25lber I had ever seen. I had to be about 5lbs heavier before it spawned. It had absolutly no belly on it. I ended up with only a large gar that decided to hold onto my bullhead untill I beached him. Missed a couple of runs. Its was an adventure and there are so many good lookin spots. There are alot of snags up there.

Doesn't this just look good?

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This is a pic of the back side of this snaggy rocky area on our way back to the landing at 7:30am. Did I mention the skeets? They were thick!!!

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New stretches are always a fun adventure aren't they?

That spot does look good, given the right amount of water, I probaby would've set up near it and sat all night.

That pic also makes a nice desktop background wink.gif

Sounds like the fish are starting to turn on again, still racking my brain why none of us could catch a decent one on Fri.

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... still racking my brain why none of us could catch a decent one on Fri.

Gotta agree with that! Too many good anglers fishing different stretches of the river with the same results. Nothing!

I'm so darn confused why we couldn't get a run where the "shuttle service" was fishing on Fri night. Considering that the water is low, this spot had "everything". It had good current, disruption of current, deep water & shallow water, cover. Guess we might have been fishing it wrong.

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Hanson

I think you hit the nail on the head with where you were fishing it.Last night we fished a area like you explained and unless I was not right on the edge of the snags I wouldnt get a bite.I broke off numerous times trying to find the right spot.It was either a snag or a run.

Plus,I have been pretty lucky lately.That helps a bunch as my skill level with these cats isnt real high to say the least.

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Kettner access, eh? Nice stretch there and I have a photo of that same pile of rocks from the other side. I did catch 6-7 pounder from that same snag.
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Good eye,we put in at Ketners but fished miles down river.

We had an FM cat gathering a couple of summers ago at Ketners. We fished the snag and I think we got a couple of small ones but I dont think we were set up correctly for that area.

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That spot looks pretty familiar to me too.
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That is the stretch that we fished for the Catfish Insider article that I was featured in this spring.
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Then a couple of the areas the article talked about are ringing a bell. grin.gif

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i have climbed around on that very rock. we've tied up to it before for a few hours as well. the water is really low up there now, wow. it had to be at least 3 or 4 feet higher then.

Chris knew where it was since we had fished it with dragonfish at a cat gathering before. Yeah the water is super low. There is also another sweet snagg about 30yards below that one and another tree but I couldnt fit it all into the picture.

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i thought so. that really is a sweet stretch of river. the pick reminded me of a few nice spots around there. i need to get a boat.....

Yes you do! laugh.gif I also saw some nice shore spots up there as well.

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