You know the old saying....

[DTro]

When life give you lemons, you make lemonade.

So has been the fishing for Flatheads lately for me. Instead of getting down on it, I've been taking what the river gods will give me.

In this case it's been Channels, lots of them, and nice ones too.

Last night was no exception with several nice fish caught. We experimented with some different bait combinations, including some manufactured "Food Source" baits. They seemed to prefer one in particular and I can't wait to try it again for the BP Cat League.

Here's a couple nicer ones of the night:

[Shack]

Nice fish dude!

Them fish are starting to put some girth on them

[aanderud]

I just get grumpy, take my boat, and go home. Darren, on the other hand, keeps hitting it.

Nice fish. Sounds like you had a good night!

[SteveD]

Darren - I just ordered some Food Source bait. Which one did you have the best results with? I ordered 1 package of each of the Big Cat Meal; the Catfish Bites; and the Cut Bait. With the local bait store closed I figured if I ever got in a bind for bait this could maybe save the day.

[HotPocket]

I also got into alot of channels this weekend. Sizes 20 to 31.5 inch. 13 Channels!

[DTro]

Sorry Steve, my post was not very clear. In addition to the Food source, we were trying other things as well. I had about 4 varieties of the Food Source and I only had a chance to try the "blood" bait. I think they are all the Cut Bait style. It did get hit, but we were trying all kinds of things.

There is an article in this past years In-Sider that gave some pretty good reviews of the Food Source.

[crazyice]

Nice channels Darren. Seems like about this time last year we were into them pretty thick down here as well.