Cutler Cats 4-15

[SkunkedAgain]

Went out again tonight to try and see if the cats were biting after the cold storm... They were, I found a spot where the water was 51, that's down 5 degrees from last trip.. Side scan showed fish in the area when I got there... Chucked out one line with two hooks on it and then worked on rigging up a second rod... While I was trying to tie on a hook, my other pole about got pulled out of the boat, so I gave it some attention and ended up landing a first for me, I got a double on the same line... Two channels one 18, the other 21", talk about a crazy fight, I couldn't figure out why it was such a crazy fight almost going in two directions at once... Once I seen the two fish, things started to make more sense.. I did a fantastic job of netting the pair, and did a double release and I was back to fishing... Don't really remember the order, but I ended up with 8 or 9 cats including a nice 27", which once again I thought was bigger than it ended up measuring... Maybe it's because I didn't catch any big cats last year, but I'm sure mixed up on what's a big fish this year...  Fun trip, the cats liked the carp minnows from last fall... I had a night crawler on the other rod and finally my last fish of the day came in on the crawler, everything else was on the carp chunks...  Once again the cats are roaming in packs and it's pretty slow between packs, but when they show, they seem to be willing to take my offering... Funny how the cats seem to surface and show themselves as the packs roll in... If I could only see better I'd spot out where the fish are surfacing and head there and fish, instead I wait for them to come to me... guess I need to get my trolling thing going again so I can get to them quicker... Later Jeff