Elder sister Evie-Jo (Dana Plato), a big fan of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys with mystery solving, her little brother and skeptic John-Paul (David Sobiesk); and their younger mute friend T-Fish (Marcus Claudel).

In the lead up to the day of the fishing competition, a motorist and his family passing by Boggy Creek catch a glimpse of a large, hairy figure wandering in the riverways.

The motorist comes in to inquire about the creature and many a frightened statement is made of Big Bay-Ty, who had never been caught but it seems everyone has either glimpsed, run into, or lost livestock to the monster's raids.

Later that day in the bottomlands whilst the children are rechecking their remaining baited lines and discovering more had been looted without catching a fish, T-Fish as a frightening run in with Big-Bay-Ty.

While fleeing the storm and hearing Big Bay-Ty's howls in the distance, they discover an abandoned fishing shack filled with food scraps and their missing "Cat-Fish Kool-Aid" bottles.

The passages confirm their mother's suspicions and that their father died from a careless snake bite, not Big Bay-Ty's doing and the presence of the box implies the creature might have tried to help him but was too late.

On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar gave the film a negative review, calling it "an unoriginal and silly story that is not particularly well written and with highly variable acting".