Capt. Steve Barnes
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April 26,27,2008
Caught lots of small fish but I think the fishing should turn on next week.
Usually the last week of April is when it starts but we are a little late this
year with the crazy weather.
April 25,2008
Fished the lake today and ended up with about 30 Fish.

April 21,2008
Fished the river today and caught mostly small fish with a few decent
ones.
April 19,2008
Fished the river in the afternoon today. lots of small fish and a few nice ones.


April 18,2008
Fished a group of 4 in the river today, small fish were good and a few big fish
caught by other boats, then we hooked into this fish. 26 LBS 37" long with a 25"
girth.

April 15,2008
Lots of fish again today but no big ones.

April 14,2008
Lots of fish again today but we got a couple of big fish that weighed 15 and 18
LBS.


April 13,2008
Lots of fish but nothing big, also lots of boat traffic on the river today.
April 12,2008
Lots of fish today but nothing big.


April 11,2008
Lots of small fish this morning but we did end up catching 3 good ones,
13,15,and 19 LBS.




April 9,2008
Fished a group of 8 on the river today and the catching was as fast as you could
go.

April 7,2008
More fast action again this morning with lots of nice fish released and a limit
of fish to eat.


April 6,2008
Fished a morning and a afternoon trip today with fast action on both trips. Kept
limits of fish and released a bunch more.



April 4,2008
Fast action again this morning.


March 31,2008
Fished a group of 4 this afternoon and it was more of the same. Caught and
released one big fish at 16 LBS.


March 29,2008
Fished a group of 4 in the AM and 4 in the PM. More catching, the fish are
really on a feed.

March 28,2008
Fished a group of 4 in the afternoon and it was all catching again.
March 24,2008
Fished a group of 4 in the afternoon, nonstop action, no fishing all catching.

March 23,2008
Fishing is better then it has been in a long time and I have days open.
March 22,2008
Fishing was great today, we are on a very good big fish bite right now. We
caught limits of fish today and released a few 8-10 LB fish and also released
this big 23 LB striper.



March 21,2008
All I can say about the fishing right now is I have days open and the fishing is
as good as it has been in a long time for bigger fish and lots of them.



March 19-20,2008
Fishing was really tough on the lake the last few days so we went to the river
this afternoon and it was on.


March 17,2008
Finally hit a really good trip. Fished a group of 2 and we caught about 40 good
fish on Berkley power mullets. The fish were schooled up and feeding good.

March 16,2008
Same deal this morning, about 40 small fish. Afternoon was different, the small
fish in the deep water would not bite for us so we moved into some shallow water
and caught a few good size fish up to 10 LBS. We released the 10 LB fish.


March 15,2007
Fished a group of 4 this morning and did much better, caught about 40 fish but
most were dinks with a few good box fish mixed in. Fished a group of 3 in the
afternoon with about the same results.
March 14,2008
Fished a group of 3 in the morning and it was tough for us, we ended up catching
a few fish but not near what we needed.
March 9,2008
Fished a group of 6 on the lake this afternoon. The fishing was pretty good and
we ended up catching about 40 fish, some were a little small but you take what
you can get this early in the spring.
March 7,2008
Two big snow storms this week have delayed us from getting started with the
striper fishing but we should start for sure on the 15th.



February 26,2008
I have been busy on another project but will get back to fishing pretty soon.
February 17,2008
Fished the river for striper this morning for about 3 hours and did not even get
a bite. They generated 10 hours yesterday and millions of shad are coming thru
the generators when they generate right now , but when it warms up a little it
will get good again.
February 9,2008
Another good day on the river with the two biggest weighing in at 35 and 45 LBS.


February 7,2008
Good day on the river, caught quite a few fish good fish, here is the two
biggest. I think they were low 30's on one and low 40's on the other.


January 30,2008
Fished down river today, tried to talk the group out of fishing down there
because of high winds and high water but they wanted to see that part of the
river. Caught one catfish about 15 LBS.
January 29,2008
Good day on the river but the 55 mile per hour winds made it a little tough.
Caught 2 at 38 LBS a 32 and 4 more in the 20-30 LB range.



January 28,2008
Fished the river for catfish today. Caught about 15-20 fish with 5 fish over 20
LBS. 21,28,38,40 and 44 LB blue cats.



January 27,2008
Non stop striper action again this morning on the river for about 2 hours. Lots
of 4-6 LB fish and 5 big fish from 14-19 LBS. Released the big fish. Also caught
a 30 LB blue cat.





January 26,2008
Fished the river for striper today and it was non stop action with mostly 4-6 LB
fish, a few 6-10 LB and 4 fish over 10LBS to about 15 LBS. Released the bigger
fish to catch again.


January 20,2008
Fished the river for catfish today and caught about 20 fish with 4 big fish,
30,30,32,and 45 LB.




January 19,2008
Fished the river today for striper and it was really good, we caught them fast
up to about 10 LBS when the water was on.


January 18,2008
Fished the river today and it was slow,5 cats up to 28 LBS.

January 14,2008
We did not do as good as I thought we would today but we did catch about 15 cats
up to 20 LBS.
January 13,2008
Started out slow on the river but we finally got some action. We lost the first
big fish that we hooked but then we caught a 35 LB blue ,then a few small fish,
then a 30 and a 48 lb blue to finish the day. We are going to fish some spots
tomorrow that I really think will be good.



January 12,2008
Fishing a group of 4 for 3 days so we decided to fish the river for striper one
of the 3 days. It was a little slow but we caught and lost a few nice fish.
Ended up catching about 15 striper with two 15lb and one 10 lb. The fish are
very fat and I look forward to some great striper fishing on the river this
spring.


January 11,2008
I will be fishing the next 3 days on the river so hopefully I will have some
good pics to post in the next few days.
January 9,2008
Fishing on the river was a little tougher today but we finally ended up catching
a few big ones. 43,25,21,20 and a few from 5-17 LBS.


January 6,2008
Started off the year with a sinus infection but finally felt good enough to fish
today. We had a great day on the river and caught about 25 cats total. Biggest
was 53 then 42,37,35,30,28,23, and 21 LBS.



