Went to Mallows with my son today to go after bass and snakeheads.
Jacob hooked up quickly with a nice 22 inch channel catfish. It was his biggest catfish yet and it crushed his chatter bait.
Jacob later hooked into a nice snakehead. He got it to his kayak and it would not open it's mouth to get the lip gripper on it's jaw. So Jacob wacked it on the head with our snakehead stick. The snakehead seemed stunned. Jacob wacked it again with the stick and this time the snakehead got angry and went nuts. It got off and swam away. The snakehead was enticed by the same chatter bait as the catfish.
At one point Jacob managed to get his kayak stuck on a large sunken barge metal spike. It fit into a scupper hole right in the middle of the Coosa. Jacob had to move to the front of the kayak an i had to paddle over and lift and push the boat off the spike. He would have gotten wet if someone wasn't nearby to push him off.
Jacob later had several largemouth bass come off and that was the end of his adventures.
I lost two nice largemouth bass within the first hour. Both hit a redfish magic spinner bait with a white curly tail grub on it.
I finally landed a 15 inch largemouth. For some reason it was bleeding from the corner of the jaw where the lure went in.
After spooking a snakehead I found a bunch of gars swimming and breaking the surface. They were neat to watch. Saw some small minnows near the sunken wrecks taking refuge from the currents and waves.
A while later I connected with a channel catfish as well.
We had obligations back home so left after about 4 hours on the water. It was a nice trip with no hooks in my son's calf or paddles lost.
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