Eagle Mountain 8-9-10

Today's trip was a teaching trip with Clay on techniques, patterns, locations, presentations, knot tying, graph/map reading, cast net throwing, etc.  We started out the morning learning how to catch bait and keep it alive.   Once he got the hang of throwing the net we headed out to learn how to slab, work a school, read a graph and go over patterns for sand bass.  We caught 30-40 while going over everything and headed out once the boat show started running their engines into the schools scattering them out.  Next we focused on seasonal locations, techniques, and graph reading.  Once we went over everything for sand bass we switched gears and went for summertime channel cat.  Caught a nice male channel in 2ft of water and moved on to other patterns.  After going over channel cat we went over the seasonal patterns and techniques for blue cat.  Still never found the blues, but we weren't really focusing on catching them today.  It was a learning trip and I think Clay's mind and note pad are full for now.  Had a good time and look forward to seeing him on the water displaying what he learned.  Thanks Clay