Bell City Drainage Ditch 2/21/12

[saute86]

Took my youngest son fishing in the Ditch this morning. We were going for Sacs but didnt get a bite with shiners. We switched to night crawlers and found a few blue cats on on the bottom. Gabe caught a 9 pounder on his first cast. His rod wasnt in the holder more than a minute. In an hour we ran out of night crawlers and had to leave them biting. We kept 11 that went over a pound and threw back 4 that were under a pound. Went and checked the weirs and the water was pouring into the reserve. Everyone we talked to running lines and jugs weren't catching anything but one or two on cut bait. Talked to a guy at the landing that had one at 15#, one at 20# and a few more in the 2 to 5# range. He said he was only using chicken livers cuz he couldn't get any cut bait. What luck huh.