Marshall Hall Invite

[mchottie]

Pray for warm weather, we hit Unicorn Lake last Thursday, afternoon temps were in the high 60, and this week we're supposed to hit the low 70s! Be prepared to turtle in the conditions you're fishing, Unicorn lake had a max depth of 5' so I was very comfortable fishing in shorts!!!

[YakMan1731]

I very much wanted to join you out there this past weekend but was not adequately prepared for cold weather yet. I will have the appropriate cold weather gear by the end of this coming weekend so if you or anyone else is going out of Marshall hall or Slavins either of the first two weekends of March for cats, I'd love to tag along and learn. If it helps, I found a local source for fresh and frozen alewife I can bring along. Thanks for the cool pics; looks like it was a lot of fun!

I'm a teacher and will be on Spring Break the entire week of March 12th-16th, so I'll definitely be going to one of those two spots at some point during the span of the 10th-18th. I just started learning about catfishing this winter from Pat (yakscientist) and am happy to pass on what I know. Maybe we can do a group trip one of those days. It's been a blast learning and battling the slimy monsters.

[mjkeith13]

Thanks Matt! Unfortunately, those two weekends are out for the exact same reason - Spring Break. My wife would shoot me if I screwed up vacation to catch some cats.
I'm still learning kayak fishing and have yet to launch from either Marshall hall or Slavins. How was the launching from Marshall hall with the boat ramp/dock closed? Did you fish from the opposite side of the river?

[YakMan1731]

Thanks Matt! Unfortunately, those two weekends are out for the exact same reason - Spring Break. My wife would shoot me if I screwed up vacation to catch some cats.
I'm still learning kayak fishing and have yet to launch from either Marshall hall or Slavins. How was the launching from Marshall hall with the boat ramp/dock closed? Did you fish from the opposite side of the river?

No worries at all. We will have a meet and greet too in the future that I'm sure will go after catfish. And if you have some free time, shoot me a message and we can figure it out. My fiance usually gives me one of the two weekend days to head out fishing, so I'm typically out every weekend (at least until she gets sick of it haha).

Marshall Hall was actually "closed" in that there were still people still launching from it with trailers haha From what I saw, there is one crossbeam on the pier that cracked, and it seems they had to shut it down, my guess is as a "CYA". We had no problem launching. Slavins was also very easy. Great launch into calm water.

[kevinfry]

i love fishing marshall hall.....how muddy was it?

[yakscientist]

i love fishing marshall hall.....how muddy was it?

Fairly muddy. Not the worst I've seen kayaking, but of the 4x I've fished there, def the worst among them

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