Rain and Storms

[mhall]

How many of you out there have been negatively affected this year on your fishing by all this rain. I personally have went alot less and when I have been able to go it has really hurt my bite I'm convinced of it. I've lost track how many times Cumberland has been blowed out this year and the river has looked good one time in my opinion. We gauged over 3 1/2 iches at my house last week alone. Over three inches the week before that and 2 inches plus the week before that. This morning we started off the week with another 3/4 inch deluge and we have been getting lucky compared to some people who have recieved alot more.

I know, I know, never gonna stop the rain by complaining, but DANG it's getting really old! My fishing this spring has been a wash compared to what I normally do, Pun intended, lol.
I hope the Ohio river gets in good shape by Fall, lol.

[DJD]

Mark,
I hear ya, the rain has postponed a tourny and put us on notice for another. My other outdoor activities have been hampered as well. PLUS, I have to mow the grass alot more and it's usually wet or soggy when I can squeeze a quickie in.

[Devils Horse]

We haven't had as much rain as y'all, but to me the fishing's been better this spring. I had a ball when the water was up in the trees at Barren. Now it's down near pool and it's back to the summertime blues.

If I had to look forward to fishing the Ohio River, I'd shoot myself. Guess I need to start trying for some of them behemoth sized cats y'all pull out of there.

[mhall]

We haven't had as much rain as y'all, but to me the fishing's been better this spring. I had a ball when the water was up in the trees at Barren. Now it's down near pool and it's back to the summertime blues.

If I had to look forward to fishing the Ohio River, I'd shoot myself. Guess I need to start trying for some of them behemoth sized cats y'all pull out of there.

Jim I use to think the same way about the Ohio but man was I wrong. An addition to catching catfish that weigh as much as 13 year old children, you can get on some topwater action for temperate fish down there that will just blow your mind. Hybrids up to and over ten pound, stripers, and white bass that are just a blast.

I had an afternoon last year at the spillway where I had 23 hybrids and lost count of big whites up to 16 inches. Of the 23 hybrids I had 8 over five pound and three over six pound. A three pound hybrid in that river is plain mean to especially in the current. One over five or six will test 12 to 14lb line if you try to horse them. Also the big cats are a blast, I never thought I would get as hooked on it as I have. When you start catching them over 25 and 30lb and up it gets fun in a hurry. One night last season the Chuckster and I had 158lbs and change with 8 blues. I caught my personal best at 42lb 5oz. we had another at 45lb and change and another a hair over 60lb. We have pics and these were weighed on ligit scales, we weren't guessing. It's fun to say the least, they try to pull you out of the boat, litterally, lol.

[Devils Horse]

I'd probably feel different if my strang was getting stretched like that, but my experience has been several days of black bass fishing, and that didn't turn out too good. I do remember 'accidentally' running Jim Dicken of fishin.com fame under a bridge pipe drain in a rainstorm, and that was pretty fun.

[DJD]

Jim I use to think the same way about the Ohio but man was I wrong. An addition to catching catfish that weigh as much as 13 year old children, you can get on some topwater action for temperate fish down there that will just blow your mind. Hybrids up to and over ten pound, stripers, and white bass that are just a blast.

I had an afternoon last year at the spillway where I had 23 hybrids and lost count of big whites up to 16 inches. Of the 23 hybrids I had 8 over five pound and three over six pound. A three pound hybrid in that river is plain mean to especially in the current. One over five or six will test 12 to 14lb line if you try to horse them. Also the big cats are a blast, I never thought I would get as hooked on it as I have. When you start catching them over 25 and 30lb and up it gets fun in a hurry. One night last season the Chuckster and I had 158lbs and change with 8 blues. I caught my personal best at 42lb 5oz. we had another at 45lb and change and another a hair over 60lb. We have pics and these were weighed on ligit scales, we weren't guessing. It's fun to say the least, they try to pull you out of the boat, litterally, lol.

Man I am ready for another trip in the Ohio! Let me know when you guys are thinking of going again....I'll be there if I have a weeks notice to get the dog sitter setup.

[Tim_T]

I discovered a talent I never knew I had until this year. If I make plans to fish the Cumberland River for trout, it will rain for three days straight. I didn't use to have this kind of power, but it has stuck, I even took it to the Smokies with me and got washed out there as well.

[mhall]

I discovered a talent I never knew I had until this year. If I make plans to fish the Cumberland River for trout, it will rain for three days straight. I didn't use to have this kind of power, but it has stuck, I even took it to the Smokies with me and got washed out there as well.

LOL, This is exactly the kinda thing I was referring to.

Don, we'll be in touch and let you know if it ever stops this pattern. It has had the river in terrible shape this year so far most of the time.

[Chubminnow]

The plus side regarding all this rain for me is I'm getting plenty of excersize cutting my yard and my parents yard...earlier in the year I was working so much overtime it didn't matter whether it rained, sleeted, snowed or hailed, I wasn't able to go fishing anyway. The bad news is I feel a terrible pattern here, every few months or so as I'm getting ready and psyched to hit the water (early spring, winter, late winter, fall, etc) to fish, something always happens to make it so I have to put any fishing trip off a week, then two weeks, then three weeks and so on, and before I realize it the dag gone best days are gone and I find myself thinking: "C'mon fall, I'm not going to let fall fishing pass me by this year!" Time will tell.

I know lots of you fish the Ohio and also fish at night, etc, and there's probably some good fishin' to be had, but right now for me I will probably only fish the farm pond and maybe drown some minnows, worms or crickets in search of crappie or blue gill while fishing off the back of the Sea Ray with the wife (yes I'm one of those summer boater types that everyone complains about)...the only difference is this: "About a week ago the wife and I were at Indian Creek on LC...we're early birds anyway so as soon as we got up and took the dog's up the hill to do their business we headed up towards the dam on one of the foggiest mornings I've seen in June. Once we got to the mouth of Indian Creek some boats started coming into view that were striper fishing...the fog was so thick I said the heck with it and shut the motor down and drifted. My wife commented on how quiet it was and how peaceful the fishing boats looked in the distance with all the fog, etc, my response to her was: "I feel like we're invading their space."

Fish on feller's, these crazy weather patterns will soon cease and we'll be picking tomatos! Bacon, lettuce, mayo and a THICK slice of tomato please.

[mhall]

Chub, I absolutely love bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, with homegrown maters of course and home grown lettuce to if available. Dang brother that's some good eatin!

[RoadToad]

The rain has killed a couple fishing trips for me, but my garden, especially the tomatoes, is looking better than it has in years, so on the whole, I'm not complaining. I've only had to water once or twice this year. "There's only two things that money can't buy, and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."

Homegrown Tomatoes
by Guy Clark

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden

Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat `em with egss, eat `em with gravy
Eat `em with beans, pinto or navy
Put `em on the site put `em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I's to change this life I lead
I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed
`Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetary
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes

[bassin_bug]

Chub, I absolutely love bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, with homegrown maters of course and home grown lettuce to if available. Dang brother that's some good eatin!

Take a guess what I have already planned for lunch. You haven't eaten a tomato until you eat Grainger County, TN tomatoes. They are so flavorful and juicy you can smell them across the kitchen when they are being sliced. Mmmm, yummy! I'll think of you when I bite into my big, thick, BLT sandwich with potato chips on the side and a glass of iced tea. Warm pecan pie with whipped cream for dessert.

I'll be frying up some thick sliced hickory smoked bacon to make sure I get it just right.