lake assunpink catfishing

[vanstaalin]

Got out to the big lake just as everyone else was leaving(and complaining about lack of fish).The lake did look dead, no surface action at all! We threw out a marker buoy and chummed the area, then went to see if any top water was going on. After a hour of 3 of us throwing different top water baits it we realized it wasn't happening tonight. I did get a 12 inch shiner while trolling a little heddon torpedo. I didn't know shiners were so aggressive. Went back to the area we chummed earlier. After about 2 hours we got a nice fat bull head then a eel at least 36 inches(just a guess didn't want to touch it). Finished up with 5 bullheads all nice size, a jumbo eel, and a shiner that I floated behind the boat all night without a touch and no channel cats .Used "ripe shrimp" (thanks LunkerTaker)and livers. The shrimp caught most of them. Also went to the back to try some more unproductive top water. Followed the far side to the back very shallow over there finally found a nice patch of weeds and a soon as we got close there was a noise that sounded like someone jumping in the water. Scared the @#$% out of us cause it was like 10 feet from the boat! maybe a beaver or otters...if it was a fish it was huge. finished at 3 am.