Ray Hubbard Catfish Report 3-6-10

Since the whitebass/hybrid fishing on Hubbard as been horrible we decided to try a little catfishing. Bryon from TNT Lures was in town so we had planned a fishing trip but did not know what we were going to do. So … EL Nitro, Champion Gene , Bryon and myself gave it a try… we started out at 8:30 am and found bait real easy.. matter a fact it was so easy I was worried that the day would go down hill from there … if you know what I mean! we had way more bait then needed in 10 minutes.. all threadfin no gizzard… we loaded the boat back up on the trailer and decided to launch some ware closer to the area we was going to fish… picked or first spot and within 30 minutes had the first fish on … it was pretty good action the whole morning… we finally got a big fish and Byron took the rod… man those big ones can fight… we also notice we were getting bit more on the side of the boat that was shallower.. so we moved about 50 feet closer, don’t know if it made a difference but 10 minutes later Gene had his big one on… all we heard was a huge splash we moved when that action slowed and found a spot very similar to the one we started… was there 10 minutes and fish on… we caught another 5 or 6 there… we fished from 9-2pm and we kept 21 fish that we weighed at Nitro’s house for a total of 153 lbs… Nitro’s scales on the boat didn’t work… so we do not know exactly how much the big fish weighed that we caught but they were released… also released 2 that we estimated to be about 10lbs… caught more that were in the 15-20 inch range that we also let go because we had a cooler full already… we are guessing with the ones we kept that was 153lbs and the other we released maybe had 225-250lbs… but not positive.. … all fish caught in 1-3 ft water with double action circle hooks on cut shad… main lake was 48 degrees… we found water 50 degrees and it warmed up to 56 degrees before we left… S winds at 6-12 mph… it was a very nice day …