Ohio river cats

[riverrat12]

Chris, where you been? How's the barge life treating you. Good to see you been hittin some cat's. Just got back from Destin tangled with a few Spanish and Kings and of course a mess a ocean cat's. I'll be back to my river this week and I look foward to my fresh water again. Chuck

[big_cat]

Hey Chuck,
The barge life is going good. I just got my 200 ton captain license. I have to leave later tonight to go back to the boat. I will be back on the 21 July we should meet up. There are a few other people that would like to give them cats a try. I think Boat bum and I are going to go out and a few others. I will be checking this board while Im out on the barge. I posted some pics of some of the cats we caught.

Chris

[HURRICANEBOB]

Congrats on the skipper license. I wish you the best. During a tow, if you see a burgundy pontoon on the Ohio, give a blast, and I'll respond to confirm. Again, congrats on achieving a milestone, and best wishes for future success.

What line do you work with? I'll keep an eye out for you.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Always wanted to ask this, when on a push, are you allowed to troll planer boards? :-)

[big_cat]

I work for ACL, we move alittle to fast to troll, but if we stop for lock delay or any other reason we can and do fish off the tugs. There are some nice fish caught off the back of the tugs.

[riverrat12]

Hey Chuck,
The barge life is going good. I just got my 200 ton captain license. I have to leave later tonight to go back to the boat. I will be back on the 21 July we should meet up. There are a few other people that would like to give them cats a try. I think Boat bum and I are going to go out and a few others. I will be checking this board while Im out on the barge. I posted some pics of some of the cats we caught.

Chris

Way to go man, We need to definitely hook up and go get'um. Hated to here about the guy drowning out in your neck of the woods (Cannelton dam) got to respect the river for sure!!!Give me a shout when you get in. Good luck. Chuck

[Boat Bums]

Congrats on the up grade. see on the end of the month we'll do some fishing. be safe

Mike

[Boat Bums]

Hey guys,

I have been work on some stuff. I talked to big cat to get my tackle lined out. He told me about some problems in fishing the river snags.
I'm thinking about using a spider wire type braid for my line but then coming off my swivel with mono to the hook. and mono to a drop sinker set up like a caroline rig putting a snap swivel on the sinker about 4-6 inchs of mono. this should let it break first before having to cut off my braid. has any one tryed this tactic.

[PRO V LE]

Anyone have a update on where the SkipJacks can be caught?

[big_cat]

I was down at Cannelton **** last tuesday night, Caught about 12-15 right before dark. I caught them all off Sabiki Rigs. I had to get the rigs down to about 10-16 feet before I would get a hit. I hope they show up in bigger numbers soon.

Good luck getting bait.

[mhall]

When are the hybrids gonna get cranked up?? Dave I was at the Falls yesterday afternoon and the skippies were surfacing everywhere.

[PRO V LE]

When are the hybrids gonna get cranked up?? Dave I was at the Falls yesterday afternoon and the skippies were surfacing everywhere.

Thank's for the reply. The river was muddy up here at Markland and they were hard to find. Lowerider has a tournament coming up and needs that "Big Blue cat candy" he has a friend that will drive all the way down in Tenn. just to catch Skippies for bait. By the way if you have never fished for them they are a blast on light tackle, sabiki rigs or 3to4 small jigs on the line. It's not uncommon to catch more than one at a time. "Tennesee Tarpon" .
I may just try them at Cumberland for the Stripers, they work great in the river down there.