[mcseal2]

I thought this might be interesting, please reply with

1. depth
2. size of fish
3. time of year
4. time of day
5. river/stream/lake

I caught a 50 pounder in 18" of water on 5-24 at 11pm on a large lively bluegill fishing a shallow river. The bait was on the shallow side of a ledge that dropped into 6ft of water.

 

[ramon06]

I thought this might be interesting, please reply with

1. depth
2. size of fish
3. time of year
4. time of day
5. river/stream/lake

I caught a 50 pounder in 18" of water on 5-24 at 11pm on a large lively bluegill fishing a shallow river. The bait was on the shallow side of a ledge that dropped into 6ft of water.

14'
22.3LBs
November during a tournament
12pm ish
James River under a bridge
on a 6" Largemouth bass

 

[USCA-RECLAIMED-ACCOUNT]

I july and August,I get quite a few #12-#20,s in 3ft or under,but that,s on a smaller river where the average depth is only 6-9 ft.In the bigger rivers,I don,t go much shallower that 7-8ft.

 

[McDreamy]

1 and half foot
55 lbs
june2007
2 am
lake

 

[varmint_sniper]

1. depth.......12in
2. size of fish....42lb's 6oz
3. time of year......Aug,20th,09
4. time of day.......4:30am
5. river/stream/lake......MWCD Lake
.............Sniper

 

[silkstringz]

around 3 ft.
55lb 1oz
giant sunperch
June 6th
small river

 

[keepitsimple]

51lb
about 2ft
April
Dan river
cut perch
during the day

 

[Mudcatboy]

3 Feet
35lb.
Resevoir
June
Midnight or so
Live Tilapia

* It Was My First Flathead ( over 25 years ago ) I Was Striper Fishing.

 

[Angling Andrew]

'3 at night

 

[FATFLATTIE]

2ft, mid to high 30's fish (it bottomed out my 32lb scales), cut bluegill, mid-September, large tidal river.
caught around 6:60 or 7pm.

Most of my flatheads over 20lbs have come from deep water (deep being relative). Most have come deeper than 10 or 12ft.

 

[Circlehook Jester]

41 pounds
3' water
small river
hand size blue gill
between 2300 and 0000 hours
August

 

[eric2006]

two 20lbs both was in four foot deep on bluegill
both was caught in sept and five minutes apart.

Also in the same spot two weeks later caught a 30lb on cut bluegill four or five feet off the bank..

 

[ShilohRed]

18" to 2ft of water late July 1984 51-lbs 9 am sunny and hot. More for me has been in the AM between 6 am and 10 am warm weather and sun. 75% were in less then 5ft of water on flats where they were feeding.
Pete

 

[Mark J]

We've caught flats up to 50 pounds finning in a foot of water in the Neuse river at night.
It's just like top water bass fishing. When they take the bait, the water just explodes.

I learned a long time ago lake fishing and setting trot lines that I was fishing too deep at night.
Folks standing on the bank like to cast as far as they can.
95% of my trotline fish on a trotline that ran from bank to 20 feet deep.came from the first 3 or 4 hooks from the bank.
I sank my trotlines to the bottom.

Fishing from a boat in a lake I quickly learned to throw my baits up onto flats in water 3' or less.

 

[RPnKC]

1. depth...................< 2feet
2. size of fish............35 pounds
3. time of year..........August
4. time of day...........2am
5. river/stream/lake....lake during downpour

 

[thecatman]

under 2' approx ankle deep water most of the time at this flat
small bluegill
70lb flat
river
october

 

[zackjohnson_57]

i catch several in about 4 1/2 to 5 ft of water in a boyou. theyre about 20 lb-40 lb in spring flood stage. there is tons of cover and great fish

 

[Welder]

18 inches deep sandbar hump by the channel break in early aug. Seen and caught blues and flats in late summer low warm 85 deg water feed shallow 2 ft to 7 ft deep on the breaks around the bars just down stream from large dike complexes ending in a notch dike with a deep scour hole on the side.

 

[Flatline]

2 ft
#29
Shallow sandbar hump
11:30 PM
A couple weeks ago
Small river

 

[Joshuaace]

3'
Big, unweighed, see avatar
cut bluegill
sand flats
05/13/2010, 11:30 p.m.
Clinton lake.

Caught another 50+ in 07 just down the bank on a piece of fresh shrimp.