6-14-09, 6-15-09

I had Mr. Don Woodward, his son, and his grandson on board with me for two days of santee cooper catfishing. We had two great days of fishing with the first day being the best. On day one it was all about Dons' grandson Justin catching fish. He managed to boat 21 out of the 24 fish for the day including the biggest one which was a 39 pound blue! The only fish that he didn't catch was when we had 3 doubles on in a row. Since we had two rods down at one time, his dad BJ helped him out. Day two was a little lower but they still managed to land 18 fish in 5 hours (we quit at 1:00) with the biggest fish of the day being a 24 pound blue. You could tell that Mr. Don really loves his grandson and they were a pleasure to be around. It reminded me of hunting and fishing with my "PaPa" when I was a kid. Those are deafinately memories that will last a life time. To me, this is what it's all about!

6-13-09

I had a group from Sparta NC today and we had a blast. We managed to fill the box by 2:00 and ran out of bait. This is the first time in my life that I have ran out of bait but we missed so many fish that it was just a shame. We could have easily had 30 fish or more. They managed to land 21 fish with the biggest weighing in at 37 pounds. Not a bad day in anyones book!

6-6-09 (night)

I had Mr. Bobby Hamm and four of his friends tonight for another night of catfishing. We were on fish all night but we just couldn't find any quality fish at all. They boated 16 fish and I don't think that any of them would have weighed 10lbs. Just a bunch of smaller fish and that is frustrating to catch that many fish and just can't get a big one to open his mouth. This is one of those trips that I can't explain. Just gos to show you that fishing is a lot like the weather, hard to predict.

6-6-09

I had Mr. Jason Johnson, his wife, and three young boys with me today on Lake Moultrie. Things started off kind of slow with most of the fish being small. We missed a few and caught a few but it wasn't until later in the day when we found some quality fish. They managed to boat 17 fish with two of them in the teens and two of them in the mid twenties. The kids had a blast and almost filled the box in the process. Just a enjoyable day on the water watching those kids catch fish. I hate it took all day to find good fish but like they say, 90% of the fish are in 10% of the water and you just have to find that 10%. That is sometimes hard to do with 170,000 acres. LOL!!

5-23-09

I had Mr. Eric Ward and friends on board with me today for a day of catfishing on Lake Marion and boy was it a good one. The winds blew for the third day straight but the fish seemed to cooperate with us early today. They had the box full by 11:00 with just 9 fish. They had a 34 and a 35lb. flathead, six more in the teens and one little peanut. They hooked another BIG ONE that we just couldn't turn around. When we finally got him coming back towards the boat, he wrapped us around a stump. We pulled up everything and went to him but just couldn't get him unhung. I guess that is why they call it fishing but it still doesn't make you feel any better when you loose a fish of that caliber.

5-21, 5-22

I had Mr. Danny and 3 of his friends down for two days of catfishing and boy was it windy. We battled 25mph+ winds on Thursday and managed to catch a
good mess of fish anyway. The winds were out of the East and it allowed us to trailer down to the dam and fish close to the wall. They managed to boat 11 cats with one of them over 20 pounds. Friday was a much better day with the winds not quiet as bad. They managed to boat 7 fish with all of them in the teens and a few of them in the twenties. They said that they had enough fish and called it quits at lunch time. They managed to take home over 50 pounds of fillets for their two days of fishing.

5-17-09

I had Mr. Patrick Wood and his friends out today on Lake Marion and you could tell that we had a storm front approaching. The fishing just shut down today and was very slow for everyone. They managed to get 5 fish to the boat with one of them being 11lbs. and the rest were in the mid teens. They have been with guides before and have done better, they have also done worse. They seemed to understand that the weather wasn't on our side and are planning on coming back for the cold weather bite and try to catch the BIG ONE! Look forward to seeing this group again.