OH Dam last night 8/9
Hit the Cumberland below OH Dam last night around 11pm in the kayak and fished until 5am or so. They were running the number one generator so I wasn't too concerned with flow by myself on the gates side.
First fish of the night was a foul hooked 4-4.5ft long gar. It was hooked in his underside around the tail fin. That thing pulled for ever before I could see what it was and crushed my hopes of it being a striper. After that, I dead stick / drifted trout magnets near the bottom against the dam and wing wall catching quite a few bluegill. Those ended up being my cut bait for the main target drum or catfish. I ended up catching 0 drum but caught 10 or so cats bringing 4 home. Some were really small ones but I had several better ones get off trying to land.
All in all productive night as the wife wanted some catfish for supper.
Also ran into lupanfreitag at the ramp launching as I was leaving. Nice to meet you man and hope you guys got into them.
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