Kyle Sticks A Good One!!!

[Fish'n guy]

Travis Roberts and I had the pleasure of tagging along with Kyle Baynes last night in his river boat and man was that a blast!! It is absolutely amazing what a jet engines can do on the river in such shallow water!! Travis wrked until 9:00 so Kyle and I met up and scouted the river at around 7:30 to find some potentially good flathead spots for the night. After wefound a few "fishy" looking haunts we went back down stream t fish channels for a short time before picking up Travis. We fished a log jam with cutbait and ended up with a 5-6lb channel that spit the bait out at the boat lodging the hook into my leg. We also picked up a baby flathead on cutbait befre heading back to pick up Travis. I was thinking that things were definately going in the right direction to have that much actiion before dark!

With everyone in the boat we then headed down to our first selection and fished an area with deep water lots of timber and a nice current seam. Travis almost immediatly made contact with a smaller flathead and then nthing after that. We then elected to go upstream and fish a large back eddy adjacent to a large hole 18-19' deep. After about a half hour kyle had a good run on his rod! after letting the fish take the bait for a whilewe then realized there was a trophy tangle with Travis's line making things interesting! Kyle and Travis some how managed to untagle the lines without cutting anything while allowing the fish to still run with the bait. Kyle then set the hook into what turned out to be a really good fish! I honestly have to say I have never seen a fish pull so hard!! He had his dragset very tight to the point where I couldn't pull it out myself. The fish took line like his real had been on freespool or something. We ended up netting the fish and realizing it was 41 lbs.

The release

Thanks again to Kyle and Travis for the fun nite!!

[DTro]

Alright!

Sure are a lot of nice fish being caught. Congrats.

You should've saved that one for the BPCL.

Get any measurements on it?

I do believe that would be the start of Safari season

[harvey lee]

Andy, looks to be your on a hot big cat bite. Congrtas to you guys.

[hanson]

Congrats guys!

Save a few for the Kato gathering alright?

[DARK30]

Nice one Kyle! You doing some exploring down river again? Very nice rig for exploring too I might add

[Kyle B]

Hey Andy thanks for posting this for me! Also thanks to you and Travis for accompaning me out for a night on the river!Was a great night! Didn't get any measurment on the fish wanted to get it weighted and after verifying with 2 scales and with a 2oz difference between the two it was 41 lbs took some pictures and away it swam. A good night indeed! Kyle

[Farmboy1]

NICE FISH.

I really like the picture of the fish's back, boy that has some broad shoulders!

Congrats.

[Andrew Erickson]

WOW! that thing is huge.Nice fish

[Dan Thiem]

Awesome fish guys! Congrats.

[aanderud]

Holy smokes, that is a great catch! Good job Kyle!

[Fish'n guy]

Ya Tom, the big cats are rollin pretty good right now! Looks like you picked the wrong week to head north! LOL! j/k!

[Fish'n guy]

You bet! thanks for the good time!

[harvey lee]

Toms not heading north now, got cancelled due to high winds. I'll be river fishing somewhere.

[Fish'n guy]

Well then you are all set! Give me a call sometime!

[harvey lee]

E-mail me your #. I lost a bunch when I had cell trouble.

[Larry FlatCaster]

Nice Fish Mates.

thanks for sharing pics.

LFC

[Shack]

Nice fish! I read between the lines and figured out were you are fishing around. Keep them coming!

[Cooter]

Cripes, what a dandy! I was just thinking yesterday I need to chase cats again, missed out last year. That story and pic might seal the deal You guys sure got some good flathead fishing out there.

[hanson]

Kyle-

That's a new boat for you guys isn't it??

I see center console and your old boat had a side console.

What make/model is it? Looks like a great layout for a cat boat! And big too! You guys could dance around in there.

[Kyle B]

Hanson- It sure is a new boat for us. We got it late last fall down in MO. The old boat just wasn't big enough and the side console made the boat lean in the water. The center console balances the boat out really well.

The model is a Xpress 2072VXccC With a mercury 200/140 OB Jet. This boat was actually made for a jet so it is balanced out really well. As for room PLENTY. It makes fishing just that much better!

Thanks everyone for the great comments!

[hanson]

Xpress! Nice!

[audemp]

Awesome fish and nice boat. Is it a duck hunting boat originally?

[Kyle B]

The Boat is actually made to be a river fishing boat as it is blanaced out and the transom is raised to have a jet. The person who owned it before us fished the cabelas king cat tourney trail and went with a camo paint? You can actually buy a blind from Xpress that will go into the gunnel in the T-rail, but don't hunt myself so it will just be a river boat. Thanks Kyle

[audemp]

cool! I was just wondering cause Im looking to get a boat soon. Im weighing the pros and cons of different styles. So far I really like Sea Ark boats. very roomy and smart setup.

[Shack]

I have been pondering the thought of a new boat. I will make a point to look into express boat. Being up in northern part of Mississippi, the jet motor sure would come in handy. How are jet boats on fuel econ.?