5/1 Hartwell

[tprice]

Well THOUGHT I was ready to start the day off good, original plan was to pull planer boards first 2-3 hours and then fish cut bait on points.

Friday afternoon I picked my boat from mechanic where he was doing the 100 hour service and couple other minor things but when I backed boat into water at ramp I heard that awful sound of a dead battery and I knew my backup battery that runs my ff was bad but had just not got around to replacing it.

Well since I pretty much refuse to shop at Wally World I came back to the house and threw my battery charger on and turned it up and then went to a locally owned battery store at 8 am near the house and picked up a new electronics battery.

Finally got on the water about 9 am and pulled up to first point on Shaw Island which is the one that runs parallel to Andersonville. Right off the bat caught 4lb cat and figured it would be a day of catching catfish but that was the only cat of the day.

Fished two different points within 400 yards of each other and finally tally best I could keep up with was 14 fish, 1 cat, 4 spotted bass and 9 stripers with the biggest right at 8lbs. Nothing big but nice day on the water all things considered.

[FreeLiner]

talked with some buddies who fished points on Hartwell yesterday, cutbait, only hauled in kitty fish.

[Tha Dick]

Nice.

Gonna try to sneak out this week.

[tprice]

talked with some buddies who fished points on Hartwell yesterday, cutbait, only hauled in kitty fish.

I was afraid that is all i would catch but first was a cat and that was the only one.

You can tell the difference when they hit, cats will kind of pick and pick and then get hooked but a striper will hit and run wide open pulling drag. I set my drags very loose when doing this.

Kind of shocked they just caught cats, need to be on points on the main channel and if I catch 2-3 cats and no stripers I move to another point

Need a point that has a good drop off near by, I stay away from the big flat points