Mississippi River Record Low, Fishing For Catfish

A fishing adventure during a record low water season.
PO Box 7226
Belle Chasse, LA
70037
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[@robinwatkins6775]

My home town. I'm awed Dude. Belle Chasse, who would have thought I would run up on you on utube. So Kool... I have subscribed and an absolute 👍

[@TheAverageFisherman99]

The BIG fish have been biting here in BR with the water being so low. This past Tuesday, caught a 30+ pounder, Wednesday a 50+ pounder.

[@CPS8300]

No you didn’t

[@johnleggio4148]

Yeah I got my new PB blue and flathead a few weeks ago here, it’s been great

[@TheAverageFisherman99]

@@CPS8300 uh. On video.

[@TheAverageFisherman99]

@@johnleggio4148 low water has the bigguns biting.

[@brodericklancaster7237]

What part of the mississippi you on in baton rouge?

[@joeziegler9054]

What an awesome night of fishing Mark! Wow! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻Those waters may be low but them fish are healthy!

[@KNAZ316]

Thank you, another great video M Hood. PS. We had record lows on Danube in my country for the better part of the summer. A few critical sections of the river had to be dredged and there were limitations imposed on max length, width and draft of the vessels. Also lots of funny stuff emerging from beneath the water, like remains of sunken german warships from WW2, parts of roman bridges etc.

[@brodiedavisalmostprimitive1262]

Hoss for sure. Really cool seeing old fish that big. Enjoy your videos!

[@stevehogan8829]

Evening Mark. Didn't get to fish this week. Maybe next Thursday. Thanks for taking me with you.

[@zymbotictoot]

I absolutely love the long videos Mark . Awesome evening of fishing right there bud.

[@FnLn55]

Been watching news of the low water Miss, and wondering how long. Always good to see the mighty Alpha tackling the hoss. You make good video.

[@williamscoggin1509]

Dang, that was not fishing, that was catching. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇲

[@kellyhill4410]

Excellent night for fishing 🤜🌟🤛

[@giveitaswingoutdoorswithsm2901]

Good grief Sir thats some big fish bloody great fishing you have over there ☝️🧐🐳

[@fishinfool3795]

Thanks for this Mark. It's funny cuz I call really big fish hossarini hossenfeffer. 34+ lb blue is A-OK!! Now I gotta wait til may to go cattin'. I'll survive watching you get it done all Winter. Getting ready for the ice soon. Take care man. Yeah, you right.

[@popeye2674]

Good show Mark, lot's of good catches

[@GeoFishing]

Very cool as always 😎👍 Hope ya find some cool treasures with all the low water

[@moblack5883]

good episode and the nerd in me really liked the information about the river and water levels. its just stuff most folks never think about. especially when you mentioned the grain coming down the river on barges. I'm familiar with O&G barges but never thought about other industries barges. On to the fishing portion that ring light probably did bring in the bait. I wonder if you could catch some with your Zabiki rig while waiting?

[@moblack5883]

Also glad you're back work mornings are better with a new episode!

[@saltrock9642]

Mornin M.Hood! Another great show. 👻

[@MHoodFishing]

Thanks

[@bobchristianson396]

You are a classy man. Listening to Beethoven’s 9th symphony in the background. Worked as a deckhand for a couple of summers saving money to go to college. Became an Engineer and now retired. But if I had a chance to do it over, I would stay on the River and train to become a pilot/ Captain. More challenging and rewarding, not to mention the time off to go fishing.

[@richardcarrow8954]

sound of freedom

[@robinwatkins6775]

I'm 3 weeks to late Mr. Hood. See all your comments. Maybe you we live at the time. I'll be watching

[@markfletcher5457]

Cool video. Big catfish.

[@arneservatius1982]

We catch blues off pier in Lake Michigan. Sandy bottom clear water no mud. Cats taste clean. In day catch salmon, lake trout, browns, white fish. South Haven Michigan 🤗🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@MHoodFishing]

Blue catfish? Blue cats are not in the great lakes.

[@rachelelsas3535]

awesome night there bud. -3 wheeler Roger n boys😊

[@henrykosky3919]

Few good eater size blues... fosho! I'd be eating some fried nuggets.. it's been a while since I've had some good catfish 👍

[@rickyaderholt4119]

What a awesome video!

[@unknownuser2737]

You're very formative I really appreciate everything you're talking about on the river. I live all the way up in the north part of the states where the river starts. And I love to fish too. I don't eat them I always let them go. Unfortunately sometimes they swallow the hook and they die. Those are the ones I give to my neighbor who loves to eat fish. That blue catfish you caught looked very healthy. Thanks for letting them big boys go.

[@jamesgermany5877]

Try using a circle hook and you release a lot more fish if you want to

[@samueltucker4670]

Never seen the Mississippi that low up here in Clinton Iowa either it is super low I'm 43 years old and I've never seen it as low as it is way up here and Clinton Iowa I feel you but hey the lower the water is the more concentrated fish are in the easier they are to catch at least up here LOL

[@mrplencner]

Good video.

[@chrisp7908]

Been a while since you have shown us a Natchez video. Wondering what Natchez or Vicksburg looks like at the moment and what is biting in those areas!

[@honeycuttl8162]

Welcome back, worth the wait for. 💯💯👍👍

[@justinarsenault1926]

That was a very cool video man

[@lescollins834]

Bro they make these amazing things called nets that would help land those fish alot faster lol! Great fish tho good job!

[@nhemekeovorabouth3420]

Nice catch! 👍

[@mgolata]

So much for record drought. Now we’re at near record flooding. Here in the upper Midwest

[@richardbell1016]

The old seatrain 🤘

[@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850]

Southern Oregon checking in - dry creek beds - low water behind dams - low release rates for Steelhead & Salmon - weak returns with low numbers. "The River is Boney", meaning boulders, is the local refrain. Rafters are leaving and we wait for water. shallow draft is king these days.

[@raymondhuntington1499]

Hey they killing the fish back in Lafitte

[@mikejones3155]

Awesome video.. !! Brand new subscriber.!!!

[@Paddy88Keys]

Are you left handed or do you just reel that way? It just looks so weird to me having the rod in my non-dominant hand... For me it's like trying to throw a ball with my left hand....

[@robinwatkins6775]

Willows great for oyster mushrooms also

[@123gwilco]

Try some "snow shoes" in the mud. Just an idea; I have never tried it.

[@timfarris6801]

Great catfishes

[@MHoodFishing]

Thanks

[@chrisalbright5669]

Good video

[@johnhutton2500]

You might want to set up your rod with spinning eyes and spacing to use with your spinning reel. Whatever, you’re having fun and catching fish. Nice video.

[@sts.556]

expecting to see you get a Elec, trike that they have out now it's pretty sweet what i seen,

[@djomegaminus]

Since you go to that spot often, would you consider cutting or burning some "shooting lanes" through those willows so you have some snag free trails to fish?

[@reelingwithrobby]

i fished the river closer to nola yesterday and saw that same barge pass by. Recently caught some flatheads and my buddy caught a piebald blue cat. its in my last video

[@Njfishingmaniac]

Nice video

[@donniegrover5442]

Great video, great fishing! Gitter dun!

[@ryanmcmorris3272]

You ever use calamari from the Asian market? I live in Colorado Springs and it’s the best catfish bait I ever used 😂

[@juanjesusramirez9162]

Big catfish

[@danielburton1911]

I miss fishing

[@robinwatkins6775]

I use to run long lines 8-10. Depended on river levels.

[@OhioRiverFisherman]

Have u found any interesting things on the banks??? Crazy times indeed.

[@keithsteele615]

good to hear some truth.

[@richpaydirt]

Not sure if I’d eat anything living in the Mississippi River nowadays. At low levels without all of the farm chemicals and sewage being diluted, you’re likely to get hepatitis or at a minimum the 24 hour squirts.

[@cajun_8985]

that’s so untrue😂

[@lesliebyrum8934]

Have you ever fished below a Spillway or the Lock and Dam

[@rastarecordsent]

He sound like edge 🤣💯

[@brandenplaisance6705]

I've caught redfish during low water levels in the river as far north as the Harvey canal.

[@aggabus]

3.2 thanks hood

[@aggabus]

Level

[@EASTSIDERIDER707]

I was listening as I got set up for a peaceful day of catfishing. Even with the California drought The Sacramento River is flowing better than The Mississippi. Hope we both get good rain.

[@brianscott382]

How is the fishing in the sac river, i live near sac

[@EASTSIDERIDER707]

@@brianscott382 usually very good but the drought has reduced the flow. The Striper run and Salmon are almost nonexistent. I know a fellow who caught a beautiful one near Yuba City and he became an instant legend. I live in Yuba City and usually do well catching Striper from the bank but not this year. Friends in Knights Landing and Sacramento say The Delta is poor. Most fish don’t enter from San Francisco Bay. Most days I’m catfishing from the Sacramento near Grimes. I make the 20 mile drive to avoid getting my car robbed by tweakers. After 2 weeks of getting skunked I caught a decent Channel Cat and a couple Pike Minnows today. I almost didn’t go because of rain but took the chance. Where do you live?

[@borfishing7690]

👍🏼

[@dude8223]

The gun is a Browning, the deer is their logo

[@rickyaderholt4119]

You should do a gaf top vs blue catfish taste test. I bet it's about the same

[@dude8223]

Does the boat traffic effect the fish biting?

[@williamscoggin1509]

I live in East Texas and have never seen those smaller catfish with the real long like antenna spines I guess you would call them?

[@zapa1pnt]

Gafftopsail Catfish. Google it. 😁✌🖖

[@borf9717]

Thanks Mark. I was going thru withdrawal.

[@MHoodFishing]

Glad to help

[@wodenviking]

You really stacked all those rocks for a fire pit ?

[@AlbertoMartinez-lq6ov]

Why you didn't stay there in the night

[@geoffreymills9932]

Gotta say, I'm very suspicious about the water level in the Mississippi River simply because of the talk about sending it to California, it would surprise me if our government put the golf courses of cali over the interest of the people in the south

[@jerbearp9572]

Can you eat the fish out of the Mississippi ? Just wondering about the chemical plants in area ? Thanks for any info.

[@keithsparling5537]

Not just chemical plants... but the fertilizers, and weed killiers from the farmers... nuclear powerplants using river water... I grew up on the Illinois, and Mississippi... The heavy coal traffic back then made the shores black and "gooey" 6 inches down, you hit black gooey oil soaked sand. I wouldn't eat anything out of the rivers back there. I wouldnt swim in them! Especially heavy corn planting depletes nutrients so rapidly, fertilizers get over used... Ever notice high high the weeds at the field drainage creeks edge is??? Usually towers over everthing, cause its "fertilizer soaked" soil!!! It all washes into the rivers... factories getmost of the blame, BUT FARMERS DO MORE THAN THEIR SHARE OF POLLUTING!

[@mrgeno4682]

Euphrates as well.

[@MHoodFishing]

Yes and more

[@JonSorensen]

Our rivers are super low and lakes have lost 4 to 6 ft of water level.

[@joellandry8407]

I don't understand what you mean when you say that the river is at X number of feet. What does this mean please reply.

[@StonedDead1981]

I don't think that first fish liked you very much, lol. He was trying real hard not to get picked up.

[@georgevangordon9728]

Which is all well and good if you enjoy 3 headed fish for supper no way I would eat a Mississippi River fish

[@Paulwe4]

What bait are you using

[@mikehood6477]

Long time no see Hood. Hope all is well.

[@MHoodFishing]

Yes

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

you need to rig a drone to drop your line way out.

[@alfredperez5374]

It was not long ago everyone was complaining that the Mississippi river was in record flooding?? So we know that some day it might be low again. Records??? These are only what we know about. We actually know almost nothing !

[@deanharbord3591]

Thanks for the video been a lot of good eating if you keep the 2 big ones I hate to see the river staying so low parts of the river has a lot of dead fish be ashamed to loose them fish because of low or no water when could feed a family

[@joelhenderson5404]

You can always get barge bites.

[@davidhughes3765]

That’s why I like fishing with a loose drag so that he can take it

[@patrickbush9526]

That's my fault I caught a catfish so big when I pulled him out the water level dropped to record low

[@TacoMyrick]

😂😂

[@danielburton1911]

I wonder if anyone came across guicksand.

[@breakawaybooks4752]

You need snowshoes for that mud.

[@shaundiltz5821]

It was way lower in 2012

[@johngoode3501]

With a rough looking beard are you planning on playing Santa at the mall?:-)

[@aggabus]

Stage height minus 10 Memphis?

[@markeverson5849]

Tell me my friend about eating those fish off the Mississippi River are they safe to eat are they clean I'm a believer that the fish are only as clean as the water they come out of I was told not even to swim in the Mississippi River by an old man when I was traveling from Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Southern Missouri Ozarks over where I crossed the Mississippi from near Paducah down there in the bottom and then across into Missouri I was going to swim it was very hot in an old man said Son please don't get in that water? Do you eat them or not? And if you eat them are they safe I mean tell me the truth I love fishing and eating fish

[@cajun_8985]

they are perfectly fine and taste amazing

[@markeverson5849]

Thanks for the answer be safe out there

[@johnfollmar4640]

Why isnt the flow of the river into the ocean controled ???

[@wompbozer3939]

Because you would create a giant lake

[@johndeere3596]

When you say 2.8 and 3 feet and 4 feet....what are you referring to ? Your not talking about the depth of the river are you ?

[@MHoodFishing]

Referring to the river gauge for New Orleans. It measures the stages of the river. Google "Mississippi river flood stages at New Orleans" and click on the weather.gov link with the hydrograph.

[@s_p7231]

How can barges float in 3.2 feet of water?

[@curtcharpentier931]

It’s deep in the middle

[@MHoodFishing]

3.2 ft is a gauge reading not a river depth reading. This means the river is 3.2 feet over a certain reference point.

[@aaronlandry6461]

The middle of the shipping channel may possibly be 70-80 feet deep 🤷‍♂️🤔

[@MHoodFishing]

@@aaronlandry6461 Yeah some of it down here near me and far less of it above BR.

[@curtcharpentier931]

Ya I know I run the river

[@jaystew730]

Fish was grunting like a hog

[@borrachoporrero9929]

youre allowed to fish with multiple rods and at night legally, guess its not called the dirty south for nothing???

[@deanfulford69]

What happened to you

[@lpn369]

No rain on the planet because it's not 2020. Everything back to normal.. pollution humans.. lol real talk

[@edwardbright5894]

U almost lost our fish because of crappy pliers or whatever you call them yellow things. Use a fish net with a handle.

[@sonnyroe4893]

Yap yap.. bye

[@treytjompson2654]

They have been messing with that river for a long time,, throwing dynamite in it trying to redirect tha flow of the current,,, hundreds if not thousands of years ago,, leave tha rivers people,, let ‘em be natural😔😔😔

[@kennykonechne6176]

I hate watching videos where they throw all the fish back. I fish to eat.