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You have permission to publish this article in its entirety either, electronically or in print, free of charge. As long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be greatly appreciated! Thank You. Nuggets From A Cincinnati Guide I attended a seminar the other week by a local professional guide. This guide works the Ohio River about 15 miles above and below Cincinnati. His information relates to catfishing on bigger rivers such as the Ohio. The fishing spot he takes his clients fishing depends on the amount of current in the river. The pool stage for the Ohio at Cincinnati is 26.6 feet. According to him when the river is in pool than catfishing is very poor. He prefers the river to be in the 27 to 28 feet range with some current for the best fishing action. Once the river gets above 30 feet then the current is too strong for good fishing. When there is some current he prefers to bait with fresh cut bait. The current allows the scent trail to spread all over to the catfish. In low or no current conditions he uses live bait. The vibrations of the live bait will be pickup by the in quite waters.Skipjacks are the bait fish he prefers for they have a very oily body that produces a excellent scent trail. The big problem is locating the skipjacks to use as bait. Normally you just have to fish for the skipjacks and load up a small cooler. Then get home and bag them for a freezer. Shad are much easier to locate and to catch for a fishing trip. Once a school is spotted just throw out your casting net. He normally makes a couple casts and has his large live well loaded for his client's trip. He uses a simple rig of, main line 30 pound mono, 2-4 ounces of sinker, tied to a mono leader of 50 pound test. He prefers a 6/0 to 8/0 octopus circle style hooks. He has FLAT sinker which are great, however they are hard to come by around here. According to him the will be found in 30 feet or deeper holes, the Garr and other fish usually do not stay in water that deep. Flatheads are home bodies; hang tight to structure such as sunken barges, boulders, and sunken trees. Blue cats like cooler water, stronger current and will suspend. The action for cats picks up when the water temperature is in the 68-70 degree range. The day time temperatures are much higher in the summer around here. During the summer months, the local pleasure boats forces you to fish at night or early morning around downtown Cincinnati. He does watch his depth finder for any big changes on the river bottom. To him any sudden change in depth is what he will check out. He really does not depend on marking fish. Since he has spent so many hours on this section of the Ohio River he already knows nearly all the honey holes. He does suggest only checking out the area of the river between New Richmond and North Bend Ohio. Along that stretch of river pay special attention to outside bends of the river. If there is a local heavy rain, check the storm sewers that flow into the river. That stuff washing into the river sets off a dinner bell response to catfish, and they put on the feed bag.Hopefully, these nuggets of information from a professional guide will put more and bigger at the other end of your line this season. Tight lines to all. nlcatfish@fuse.net webmaster for Cincinnati Catfishing www.cincinnaticatfishing.com AND SHOP WITHOUT DROPPING www.cincinnaticatfishing.com/Shop1.html Over700Bargings4YOU www.bargins4tightbudgets.com XXXXXXXXXYou have permission to publish this article in its entirety either, electronically or in print, free of charge. As long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would
be greatly appreciated! Thank You. Nuggets From A Cincinnati Guide I attended a seminar the other week by a local professional guide. This guide works the Ohio River about 15 miles above and below Cincinnati. His information relates to catfishing on bigger rivers such as the Ohio. The fishing spot he takes his clients fishing depends on the amount of current in the river. The pool stage for the Ohio at Cincinnati is 26.6 feet. According to him when the river is in pool than catfishing is very poor. He prefers the river to be in the 27 to 28 feet range with some current for the best fishing action. Once the river gets above 30 feet then the current is too strong for good fishing. When there is some current he prefers to bait with fresh cut bait. The current allows the scent trail to spread all over to the catfish. In low or no current conditions he uses live bait. The vibrations of the live bait will be pickup by the in quite waters. Skipjacks are the bait fish he prefers for they have a very oily body that produces a excellent scent trail. The big problem is locating the skipjacks to use as bait. Normally you just have to fish for the skipjacks and load up a small cooler. Then get home and bag them for a freezer. Shad are much easier to locate and to catch for a fishing trip. Once a school is spotted just throw out your casting net. He normally makes a couple casts and has his large live well loaded for his client's trip. He uses a simple rig of, main line 30 pound mono, 2-4 ounces of sinker, tied to a mono leader of 50 pound test. He prefers a 6/0 to 8/0 octopus circle style hooks. He has FLAT sinker which are great, however they are hard to come by around here. According to him the will be found in 30 feet or deeper holes, the Garr and other fish usually do not stay in water that deep. Flatheads are home bodies; hang tight to structure such as sunken barges, boulders, and sunken trees. Blue cats like cooler water, stronger current and will suspend. The action for cats picks up when the water temperature is in the 68-70 degree range. The day time temperatures are much higher in the summer around here. During the summer months, the local pleasure boats forces you to fish at night or early morning around downtown Cincinnati. He does watch his depth finder for any big changes on the river bottom. To him any sudden change in depth is what he will check out. He really does not depend on marking fish. Since he has spent so many hours on this section of the Ohio River he already knows nearly all the honey holes. He does suggest only checking out the area of the river between New Richmond and North Bend Ohio. Along that stretch of river pay special attention to outside bends of the river. If there is a local heavy rain, check the storm sewers that flow into the river. That stuff washing into the river sets off a dinner bell response to catfish, and they put on the feed bag.Hopefully, these nuggets of information from a professional guide will put more and bigger at the other end of your line this season. Tight lines to all. nlcatfish@fuse.net webmaster for Cincinnati Catfishing www.cincinnaticatfishing.com AND SHOP WITHOUT DROPPING www.cincinnaticatfishing.com/Shop1.html Over700Bargings4YOU www.bargins4tightbudgets.com. Have been catfishing around the Downtown Cincinnati area of the Ohio River for over 40 years. Gone catfishing at Lockport Manitoba 5 times over the past 10 years. It is the greastest place to catch lots of huge CHANNEL catsfish in North America!! For the past 6 years have passed catfishing information for the Cincinnati part of the ohio river on my web site
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