Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted By j simpson august 29,2008
| went to tillery last night,my friend Don caught his pb 46.10lb and we also caught a 33.2 .22.5,14, and a16lb and 3 others 5 to 7lbs. good to meet cmj out there,finally got to meet him in person.Now if I could just follow him around and learn some of his secrets.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by cmj august 29,2008
Went to Tillery this morning, Had a friend from church with me, We caught 7 blues, the biggest five went, 13.5 lbs , 16.0 , 22lbs 13oz, 28 lbs 15 oz, and Scott got his PB at 34 lbs 11oz. the other two were just under 10lbs. We caught them all on cut perch and cut gizzard shad. The muddy water was still staying up river at the moment. The water temp up river was 80 and 85 back down.
Heres Scott's PB
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by J simpson spet 3,2008
went to tillery last night caught i caught a 35.4lb and a 13 and 9lber and my buddy Don caught a 22.6,I had another good one on but got off, and Don hooked a big one was a great fight got it to the boat and couldn't get it up kept peeling drag then it broke off didn't even get to look at it, don't know if line got nicked or just wore out it was a new leader 50lb.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by frogman sept 7,2008
Jsimpson and I went out on Tillery Saturday afternoon 4pm fished till 8am Sunday morning. I caught my biggest cat to date. A 22lb Blue.
What a beast. This is the biggest cat I have seen up close. We also hooked up a 5lb flathead. Which I am about to to fry up tomorrow night. I have never tried flathead before. Thanks Jeff for taking your time to show me the big cat ropes!!! I cant wait to get my own pontoon and start the hunt. I am hooked as hooked can get! I am posting the pic below. We only hooked up on these 2 cats, we had a lot of bites. Bait was scarce the first hour on the water, but finally found some up river... Thanks again Jeff!
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by cmj sept 17,2008
Went to Tillery this afternoon, took my good friend John ( jfwillia ) with me, we didn't do much, but John did get his new PB, a 37 lb. 12 oz. flathead. He got it just after dark. It was a nice afternoon to be on the water.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by livebaiter sept 19,2008
Nice fish john. I also went Wednesday night. I got 4 flats and 2 blues. they went (flats) 48,37,32,28. A new pb flathead for me. I also lost 4, one of them felt to be over 60lbs. Just could not get him off the bottom. After 25 min. the hook just came out . I had 2 doubles on the flats. The blues were 37,29. Also lost one blue in the anchor rope that went over 40lbs. What a nice night to be on the water. Got to experience the power of a big flat. Man those fish have the muscle . The 5 biggest fish went 183 lbs.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by Livebaiter sept 19,2008
Went back Thursday for round two but the fish wasn't there like they was wed. I did get 3 flats (36,27,17) and 4 blues (25,18,20,22). Rookie12 got 2 of them blues. The flats did not want to bite until 3:30 am. Still a very nice night on the water. Its getting colder, ya'l know what that means... 
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by J simpson Oct 3,2008
Went to tillery last night,dang I hung a hog right off and he got in the anchor rope after about 8 to 10 minutes on the bottom couldn't do anything with it,yep then he broke off still didn't expect him to break off,I caught a 22.8lb flathead good fight but wasn't close to what I had on earlier.Then fished for blues in the mornin and had one looked to be 25 or 30 at back of boat I think he got in prop and he broke off haven't had that much problem with fish breaking off since catfishrus told me to go to heavier leaders which helped a lot.Met live baiter this mornin taking out had a good talk with him, good to meet you live baiter, and I think he did better than me but thats no surprise lol.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by livebaiter Oct.4,2008
When to Tillery Thursday and did alright. Did not catch a flathead all night. I did get 2 blues ( 21,17). I decide to stay until morning. I got 2 flathead's in the morning. (29,36) Fishing was tuff for me. I guess there mouths are sore from all the people fishing for them. Still had a great time being out there versus being at work... Did get to meet J Simpson out there and talked with him. Nice guy- Nice to have met you Jeff.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by bream baiter oct 4,2008
Man, what a morning! The flats were really biting. That big fish really whipped my @##. LOL. Too bad he broke my line. I had three rods go down while I was reeling in an 18 lb. flathead. Fish let go of all three of those baits by the time I got to them. The 18 # flat was the only fish I boated. I had a real big fish hit just after I got the 18# in the net. Got the big fish close to the surface but never saw him and was ready to reach for the net when all of the sudden he dove straight down. I guess he saw the running light. I couldn't slow him down. He got hung on the bottom and I still had the 18# flat in the boat. Gave him slack hoping he would swim free but that didn't happen. Broke line above swivel. Took a picture and weighed 18# and released it. I may try to post a picture tommorrow to start big fish of the month. Moved to another spot where another big fish hit. I was looking the other way. Drag started screaming. When I turned around to look, the rod had just come back up with the line cut somewhere above the swivel. The drag was set tight and that fish still made it scream. I think it would take at least a 50 or 60 lb. fish to do that. Got first bit at 0645 and last bite at 0820. Got big fish bites at two different spots. Fished from 0400 to 0900.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by rookie12 Oct 4, 2008
Well, I got a 38 lb. flat last night, so I'll have to get them pics developed and up here. My five biggest was 173 lb. I only had two flats under 30 lb. One was 15lb. and the other was 28 lb. I t hought I seen you out there breambaiter. I also lost a big fish, but I seen mine. He was way over 50 lb. What was your biggest one beambaiter?
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted J simpson oct 5,2008
fished tillery last night took a couple that use to work with me Randy and laura Jones,she got the first one and wow was he a good one,put it on my scales and it kept saying over 50 and my scales only go to 50 so big cat let me use his scales and his scaled said 50lbs her first flathead caught another smaller on and missed 4 more good bites ,need to get some lessons from you guys your burning them up,dang 10 to 15 anight.Thanks big cat for scales and bait.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by livebaiter Oct 7,2008
Went to Tillery last night and did some scouting, for some Blues. Found a good spot with some fish on it and decided to give it a try- ended up with four Blues. Biggest one was 44 pounds. I think that I might have a spot for the tournament....
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by Tomahawk oct12,2008
Didn't want to post anything before the tour. Thursday evening I got 10 flats from Tillery biggest was at 30lbs. Most in the 20's. I had a hard time bringing in those fish. Considering my right arm is only at 40% and had a pulled back muscle. They were putting a hurting on me.
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Re: Lake tillery fishing reports
Posted by bream baiter Nov2,2008
Fished at Tillery all night. Got a new PB flathead that was 37 lbs. Also got 2 other flats and a blue. They were 25 lbs. and 12.5 lbs. The blue was 10 lbs. Plenty of threadfins around lighted piers but getting decent size perch is getting harder.
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, no current that I could see, that little breeze we had made the heat easier to deal with. I'll post a pic under big fish of the month thread
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