Some Catches from the Past Week

[CMA719]

Just catching up from the last week. The boys and I got out a little for some catfish action. We did good with the bullheads on one particular pond (see double catch in the net). We caught a few nice yellow bullheads and a few brown bullheads.

Got a few nice channel cats and one nice flathead last weekend (my 9 year old's first flathead, it was about 9 lb!). He told me that he dreamed about flatheads that night.

We went to one pond this past Friday 7/24: 7 bluegill, 2 pumpkinseed, 1 LMB, 1 black crappie + 2 more crappie lost at the last second as we were bringing them in. I miss crappie fishing, it's something we did for most of the winter. I love that slow jig and that subtle bump and pull when they're on.

Last night we tried a spot up near Stockton, messing around with small plastics: 6 green sunnies, 2 smallies (see photo), 1 rock bass and a creek chub. The smallies were unexpected and a pretty special surprise!

The rock bass have a special place in our hearts because when we fly fish a local creek, we sometimes get pretty good sized ones on our flies. We've always had a love for the rock bass!

Thanks for looking and tight lines!

[dakota560]

Great report, all smiles. Solid action, quite the variety and what's best is spending time with your boys on the water. Really good stuff. Bet your boy will be dreaming a lot more about Flatheads, real nice fish. A little later in the season and that fish would have been probably easily 12-13 lbs.

[thmyorke1]

Great flathead! And no joke rock bass can get pretty slab-like, just like crappie, i love em too :D

Great report tight lines cma

[Mikey topaz]

Those smiles say it all! Great work!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Awesome catching as a family. Doesn’t get much better than this. Well done man! Good looking fish all around. :D

[icebadger]

Now that is a cool report right there.. solid fish glad to see you guys are on the kittys. The only one left for you guys to get is a white cat. Crappie fishing is always fun and they are good eating as well and the fresh water groupers (aka) rock bass are something i caught a lot on the Rockaway river when i was a kid they love small mr twister grubs..