arthur cats

Muddy creek. Big ones.

In front of the parking lot, at the upper 528 launch. Or wading the old roadbed to the right of that launch.

Really the lake's so full of them, I don't think there IS a not good spot for them.

Luvin.

You don't really have to "target" them ( at least I don't ). Just fish the typcal top water Striper baits in most of the same areas. The only thing I would do specifically different, would be to fish directly over those shallow weedbeds, rather than the edges. Also slow down your retrieve, even stopping occasionally.

While the average size has been getting smaller as the population increases, !2-18 inches seems pretty small. They generally range 5-6 pounds for me ( used to be 6-8 ) with lots of bigger ones mixed in.

I've helped guys weigh cats up to 14 pounds during the day, I can't imagine what comes out at night. I don't often catch them while fishing for other species, not in any numbers anyway, although I know that a lot of guys do. I'd like to test my "never fail super duper cat bait" up there. It is my number one on the three rivers and I'd like to see what it does up there.

I never sit when I fish and rarely even stand still, so I'm bringing the chair with the cup holder to see if I can stand it! :-)

(I'll probably have to bring the Hibachi too)

If you ever find a freezer burned deer steak that you missed in the freezer from two years ago, cut it up and use it for cat bait.  Works great.

Sorry just me again... A couple young dudes were trying for Cats tonight using Chicken Livers & could only catch Hybird Striped Bass's. Debating whether or not to head out at 1:00 am. for some top water or not. The lake didn't have any surface action as ov 10:00 pm. where I tried this eve. Great way to start off my anniversary

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Other than tonight the nights are supposed to be getting down below freezing 'till Mon. So might be better off waiting until later next week for better odds on the Cats.

Blues in Muddy creek
 
You guys crack me up.

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I caught a lot trolling Hot an Tots, from mid June till mid July.Mostly on the outside banks of sunken island.6-14 lbs. All channels, no blues in that lake.

Wife and I fished near the wind surfing area Mon night targeting cats. Wife got about a 20" channel 5min after we got there, then we were plagued by bullheads and other small fish the rest of the evening. is this a decent area for them or should we have been in a bay? She even somehow landed a 5" gill on liver using a 5/0 circle hook. Did get a couple nice bass on chubs. Saw some surface activity in the evening but its the first time I fished this lake, not sure how dense of an alewife school I'm looking for to hit some wipers(I'm assuming they're pretty thick when you find em?) Threw an X-walk for a while w no hits. Moon was very bright.