rating 2008 fishing was it a good year?

[DJD]

Well it's been a pretty fair year,had a good year for blue's, largest was 79 1\2#s and was over 80 till he blew about a 4# buffalo out, then 60,58, 57 ,two 52's and a couple 50's. several in the 40's. The flat bite was off for me biggest I would guess at only around 30#. Sauger were great early this year with a couple 25 and 26in. Stripes, hybrid and whites, were all pretty good and like Mark said there were day's we just flat wore'em out. Large mouth, I also cheated in a farm pond earlier this year ,biggest around 4-4.5#. I'm going to have to get Mark to take me to the Big C to get my smallie. As far as landing some new friends it was good to. got to meet alot of good people on this board. John,fisheater, Jason, bandit1,Doug Onemorecast, Don, DJD, Steve ,Grumman,Chris, bigcat,Mike, Ruger454,Jason, JD7 Mike ,boatbum...and a few others, All of which I enjoyed talking to as well as fishing with.Oh and there is still 23 days left in 2008, so Gone fishin boy's...Call me Mark, got to tell you what happen last week...Chuck

Chuck,
You got that river figured out...those are some impressive catches for sure.
I hope to get a huge cat one day from the Ohio River. I can't imagine a 70+ pound fish in that current. The 34# that John put me on was great! Maybe next year we can get one twice that size.