Nice surprise catch

[Ronnie Daniels]

Hello!  I wanted to give a little story of my fishing trip this past weekend.  I went bass fishing on the Alabama river for spots and large mouth, but I was also planning to try catfishing for the first time in decades.  Well, the bass fishing wasnt going well and I only got one bite which I missed.  So I decided to try catfishing.  Catfishing went worse than bass fishing due to numerous rookie mistakes.  I had problems with the newly spooled catfish line, the wind was blowing, horrible bait selection, etc.  Well, just as I was about to pull the anchor and head to the boat ramp I hear a big commotion behind me.  A school of shad got hammered by what seemed like a school of game fish.  I spun around quickly, grabbed my rod with a spinner bait, and cast right into the ruckus.  Within a few reels of the spinner lure, it was fish on! This guy was fun to fight, mainly due to his running.  Im guessing he was about 5 or 6 pounds, and I believe it's a striper, but not sure. Not a monster by any means, but I was just as happy to catch him! (I was going to upload a photo but it says the file is too big)

 

So what started out to be an unsuccessful fishing trip turned out to be wonderful fishing trip!

 

 

[TnRiver46]

Cool deal, which part of the river were you fishing? I camp for a week at millers ferry every Memorial Day 

[Ronnie Daniels]

TNRiver,

I posted a rely to you but dont see it.  I was up near Montgomery where the Catoma Creek meets the river, near Gunter Hill campground.

[TnRiver46]

Gotcha thanks. I think that is a hybrid Striper/white bass but not 100% sure either. and I bet it was a handful!!! It could be a giant size white bass but Striper are typically more torpedo shaped. You might have caught the state record white bass hahaha

[Bluebasser86]

Nice fish, it's a wiper or hybrid striped bass for sure. The shape and broken stripes are a dead giveaway. Several distinct lines below the lateral line indicate it's not a white bass either. 

[Oregon Native]

Nice fish...good fighters

[Ronnie Daniels]

Thanks!  Yes it was fun to catch.  Extremely fast on the line.

 

I'm going back Sunday for more bass and catfishing.  I think I have my previous catfish trip problems corrected and I can see what new problems I encounter. :-)

[J Francho]

On 10/18/2017 at 8:15 AM, Ronnie Daniels said:

I was going to upload a photo but it says the file is too big

Use https://postimages.org/

 

 

And nice fish.   Wiper?