riverrat,

We fished the mouth of the upper river sand pit for about twenty minutes tops because there was a small tug in and out of there and I felt like I was in his way. He never told me to move, actually waved at me but it was a little close for my taste. I was on the Cinn. side of the mouth in **** near 40ft of water anchored down. Thought I had a bite there, the pole was bent over pretty good and quickly bounced back up like he let it go. I'm using circle hooks and am very new to them, I simply know not to set the hook and to just start reeling. Went on down to the second pit but decided to turn it around as we were fixing to go home.

I've never seen a debris field like the one yesterday morning and it doesn't make any sense because it's not like it rained for three days straight. It was cleared up by 1pm though. I did hit a small branch that killed my motor, only thing that saved me was the fact I was going so slow. Had to pull the branch completely off the prop and restart motor.

I'm thinking the blue cats are in deep water right now and flatheads are where?? I would guess they're in shallow water under logs up against the banks? Boy I've got a lot of learning to do. Channel cats really don't interest me, I can catch them all day at other places.