Natalie's first catfish

It was hot as hell but my daughter and I were determined to go do some cat fishing.  It was over 100 degrees when we got to the Snake River around 7:30pm and the sweat was dripping off us just standing around.  The water level was down a lot more then the last time I had been in this spot a few weeks previous.  I had caught some cats here last time I was here so I knew they were in here...unlike the previous place I had gone with my dad when he was down for Father's Day.

The first place we set up at didn't yield any strikes.  We were using some herring bait that we had gotten at the store.  It worked ok last time we used it, but for some reason it wasn't being productive this time.  So we decided to move up shore about 25 yards and try it out.

I also decided to try something new...I had bought some bait hooks and some dipping bait the last time I was at Cabela's.  This stuff is some serious nasty, disgusting, sticking, stinky stuff, so in theory it should be exactly what I need!  I was skeptical of course because it was something new, but I'm always willing to give something a chance cause really...you just never know!

We had three poles out, and I only put this stuff on one of them.  It wasn't five minutes before I got a strike on it and hauled in a smaller cat.  I still wasn't a believer, it could have been luck that there was a fish right were I had thrown out.  So I baited back up and threw it out.  Within 15 minutes there was another one on.  This time I let my daughter get it.  This bad boy was really giving her a run for it, and this was her first cat she's ever tried reeling in.  It took her a little while to get it in, but it was worth it.  She was so excited, smiling ear to ear.

We ended up baiting up the rest of the poles and caught some more cats throughout the night.  I can say without a doubt that this bait dipping works!

Father's Day fishing

My dad came down Father's Day weekend so we decided to go try some cat fishing on the Snake River.  We went to a new spot that I hadn't been before...and more then likely won't go again.  I guess you just never know until you try though.

I found a monster crayfish that had washed up on shore.  The kids thought it was pretty cool as they didn't know those were cruising around in the river.

My daughter found a multi-tool on the shore which was pretty cool.  This is the second one I've found in a month.

I wasn't too impressed with this area.  At first I thought it might have been pretty productive as I thought I was getting some tugs on my line but it turned out to be the weeds building up out on the line and when it got to be too heavy it started putting a lot of strain on the line...which imitated the tugging.  It was a good lesson learned, and also disappointing.

Even though we weren't getting any action on the poles we had a good time just hanging out and watching the carp rolling and listening to the bullfrogs grunting.

Till well into the night when the kids starting zonking out.  Not even one fish this night...but that's why they call it fishing, not catching.

An evening at the pond

My son and I decided to go spend the evening at the local pond to see if we could catch some bluegills.  Unfortunately that didn't happen but we did catch some bass and had a great time just hanging out.