Well.. I made it out around 7:00 pm on pool 1 and managed to get to the lock just in time to see the doors close to go down, and of course another barge waiting to come up. I poked around a couple different places for an hour or so.. few nibbles, no takers.
7:50 rolled around and the traffic cleared from the lock, and I was allowed to enter.. just to hear a paddleboat radio from upriver(over loud speaker) to hold the lock for him.. so.. I’m already tied off in the lock. I peek over at the depth finder and its reading a solid 64.3 feet of water.. for some reason, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to drop a line. 20 minutes later the paddleboat pulled into the lock and was getting tied in. For some reason, my instincts told me to look over at my rod.. sure enough, I was getting a *tap, tap, tap*.. I picked it up and felt some resistence.. set the hook into nothing 64.3 feet down.. I reeled up, rebaited my hook, and dropped it down. At this time the lock doors are closing.. I looked to my rod, preparing to take in line as the water dropped and suddenly.. * tug, tug, tug * .. I set the hook and to my surprise.. a fish was on.. About a minute later I got the cat up from the bottom of the ocean it seemed(of course 50 people watching on paddle boat) and I netted the nice 7 pound channel on the end of the line.. I guess it was a reward for waiting so long.
The lock doors open.. I hurry to my planned desination for the evening.. the end of a Jetti and a large current seam in an area I know to hold fish. I put a fresh bait on and toss it out and immediately have a bite.. aired out again… shortly after Black Sportsman pulled up in his car, so I hit the shore to pick him up and head back out to *the spot*. We no sooner through the anchors and Manny(Black Sportsman) was getting hit on the cut bait.. moments after, I had a decent channel on the line around 6 pounds. I rebaited the hook with some fresh cut and through it out.. 2 minutes later was a good bite.. that one turned out to be a 16 pound flathead. We admired the fish like we never saw one before(hard to come by lately).. set it free and went back to fishing. Shortly after Manny got a nice 13 lb channel cat, and he caught naother nice channel in there somewhere.. so did I… Fish were biting.
Around 9:30 we get the call from Sherry saying she is coming down.. so we shifted our efforts to shore fishing an area fairly near. We managed a few more Channels, and a small flathead before we turned in.
The shore fishing was slower, but somewhat productive. I am pretty sure the toll of the evening was 9 channels, and 2 flatheads… would have been more if SHERRY would have caught anything to add to it 
It was a nice night to be on the river, and enough action to keep a person interested in the fishing. I had a couple live baits on tonight to absolutely no action.. everything was fresh cut bait.
. We have been getting the same results with the cut bait lately. But when you do get one to hit the live bait they have been nice ones. 
Its been my luck lately. But we have been catching flats on cut also. Mainly on the large head pieces. Nothing over 20 lbs but some nice fish just under.
Sorry Chris, sometimes I just can’t help myself 
