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Sandusky Bay

cspot

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Took the family up for the last 5 days to the Bay. It didn't disappoint. We caught 126 fish between the cats and drum. Probably about 50/50 split. Weather was really hot so mainly just fished in the morning and then did other family things. One day the water was pretty rough and we only average 3 or 4 fish per hr. The best day we averaged 11 per hr. Drum were up to 12 lb with most being in the 7-9 lb range. Channel Cats were up to 16 lb with most being in the 8-12 lb range. I think we caught 7 or 8 that were from 12 to 16 lb. Definitely a great place to go if you want to get on fish especially with kids. Kinda wish the drum wasn't as plentiful as I think we could have caught more cats. Pretty much found out that if a rod didn't get hit in about 10 min that you better do a bait check. Chances are it got stripped when you were paying attention to another rod. Fished with several different baits, but cut shad was the best bait that we used.

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Sounds like you guys had a great time up here. It’s a legit world class catfish fishery, and by and large is underutilized IMO.

Now that we’re getting close to July I think the sheephead are starting to spawn. That’s why you caught so many I bet. Next time try to come up a few weeks sooner and you’ll have a higher percentage of catfish. Likely bigger ones too.
 
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A friend of mine wanted to take his son out catfishing and asked if I would take them on my boat. This picture is from about an half hour into fishing, I never cast a pole, to busy netting their fish
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jagermeister said:
Sounds like you guys had a great time up here. It’s a legit world class catfish fishery, and by and large is underutilized IMO.

Now that we’re getting close to July I think the sheephead are starting to spawn. That’s why you caught so many I bet. Next time try to come up a few weeks sooner and you’ll have a higher percentage of catfish. Likely bigger ones too.
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With the kids with school this was the earliest that we could go. I would prefer to go in May.
 
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