Nice fish.
Looks like you are on them.
smart choices it seems to me.We didn't stay in that spot long and we rolled, just wanted to test the waters. They will have all week to replenish. I can say out of the big fish, we have not caught the same fish twice, not this year at least. I've got a few tricks up my sleeve for back up lol. I CPR all fish over 10 lbs, and 99 percent of the small ones too. I may keep three eaters a year.
smart choices it seems to me.
on not catching the same one twice, they get educated or move alot?
Stick to them flatheads and you will have a more consistant bite over blues on tourney day. Blues don't like boat traffic and them summer time Saturday night tourneys generally don't produce the big blues....too much boat traffic. Granted anything is possible...just speaking from my experience. Mr. flathead don't mind the boat traffic thus why highrock set the record back when it was a 5 fish limit for 166 lbs. Tillery could break that record today but everything is 2-3 fish limits today. I fished the first NCCATS tourney ever on Tillery...I was looking for a 125 lbs 5 fish to win it(the lake was very capable of producing that)...we placed second with 5 fish for 24.55 lbs and missed big fish by 1/2 pound with a 9.5 lbers...so you never know about them blues. We finished second in the mastercatters event once to a 3 fish stringer of blues that went 119.8 lbs on Tillery. I seen two channel cats win at badin on a blue bird sunny day once too..out of 25 teams.
Omar Edwards put the drive in me to tourney fish years ago at badin….we didn't know nothing but Omar and his two partners weighed in 129 lbs of flatheads for a 5 fish limit in my first ever tourney. That set a fire in me and I started the mastercatters series several years later 2007, so we could compete through the winter months. I fished enough to see Omars record broke with another 5 fish stringer of 4 flatheads and one blue from badin one night that weighed in around 143lbs. I really enjoyed it until I hurt my back...things went down hill from there. I miss the tourneys at times but its not worth the back pain anymore.
Good luck to you!
So how did it go?I think they move around alot myself, they move with the seasons. They been coming off the spawn so they about done up river, you can always catch fish up there but most fish follow that bait back down in late summer.
Good prediction on the winning weight Trav_Catseeker.
Good Luck at high rock.
Thanks for the thread I enjoyed it.