went up to look around, never been before. caught a few on a magdraft. caught a few flipping laydowns and a couple of better fish on a wake bait. all in all not a bad first trip there. oh and one striper tha was fun for about 10 seconds
went out with Collin for a couple of hours after work. started with a smallie that thrashed a glide bait near the end of a laydown. then caught a few small flipping a creature bait around docks. Collin had one boil all over his topwater but not eat it.
A child can’t ride a bicycle without a helmet. A person can’t drive a car without wearing a seatbelt. We are constantly watched and surveilled. Bass tournament days of competition are being cancelled for forecasted weather more than EVER before! Why, in the name of “SAFETY.” The global climate change agenda that’s pushing everyone to buy electric cars and making every storm front out to be Armageddon is being perpetuated by the mainstream media. When every weather reporter and weather station exaggerates the forecasts it sows fear and affects decision making. As we saw with the Covid-19 plandemic the mainstream media is complacent/participating in the sowing of fear and cannot be trusted. The resources are available now to allow us to look at the coming weather and gauge the actual threat for ourselves. Determining the actual threat for ourselves, don’t we all do that anyway? I watch the weather, the radar and the wind THAT MORNING when making my decisions about the coming day. When the tournament organizations make the decision to cancel a day of competition, they take away our right of self-determination. The tournament organizations are telling all the fishermen; “we don’t trust you to make good decisions on your own.” The lack of respect for the experience, knowledge, skills and autonomy of the fishermen exhibited by these organizations is shameful. It didn’t use to be this way. I still remember Rick Clunn being interviewed after weighing his fish on a really rough day at the St. Lawrence River and him responding “If its twice as rough, I’ll still go!” He did and he won. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLaJUc-hYYw I’ve heard the arguments, that they are “responsible.” Responsible for what? I’m not a [...]
fished the first monday evening derb with Tom. we ran around trying different stuff and finally landed on a shellbed with some fish. managed to catch a few on lipless baits. had a 3 fish limit for almost 9lbs and one almost 5lbs and ended up in 4th place. took 12 to win.
i got to ride/drive around with Mike in his 22' BassCat all day and was thankful to be in that big ole boat on the way back to the most exposed ramp on the lake. we ran around, looked and fished a bunch of different stuff. ended up catching one 4+ on a glide and one on a prototype from TrueSouth Custom Lures, both came off stumps. we had a couple of others that didnt come in the boat. ended up in 4th with just 2 fish.
had a friend come down from Champlain for a weekend of fishing and we had a good time. ran around fishing shellbeds and isolated brush/wood and grass beds with either a lipless or a prototype bait from TrueSouth Custom Lures(watch for it this summer!) bitter cold snap this weekend hurt the fishing some but we managed. 8+ chick stud March 2023
decided to go up river for this one and managed to get into a back water pond and settled in to fish. caught fish on a variety of baits(lipless, hair jig, swimbait, ned, shakeyhead)around the deepest water available in the pond. left early as i saw the water going out of the pond as i was going in, took an hour to get out as i got hung up in a couple of places. managed the win with 23+lbs
after a couple of days on practice, the first day of competition was cancelled due to weather........UGH!!!!! so only got one day of fishing. ran down the lake to fish shellbeds and it just wasnt my day, every one of them was covered up or i just couldnt get a bite. around 1100 i decided to go up river but never made it. my lower unit failed and i trolled from the main channel to the sale creek boat ramp and didnt weigh the 2 keepers i had.
spent a couple of days practicing and fish could be caught running the banks with a red crankbait, was better if you hit wood with it, lots of smaller fish. committed to fishing more isolated cover with deep water close by to try and target bigger fish. first stop Brian caught a couple on a worm on a drop off we were fishing near. ran to the next place, i caught one good largemouth and a decent spot on a crankbait and Brian caught another. running to another area we stopped on an isolated tree and i caught another good largemouth on a spinnerbait. fished through another area, flipping and cranking shallower timber with no love. ran back to stop #2 and i caught our biggest fish(7lber) on the spinnerbait and culled a little spot. ended up with the win and 20+lbs 20+lbs from Wedowee
fished the bfl, started off running some shellbeds but didnt get any cooperation. stopped short on one shellbed(ther was a boat fishing it) and fired a swimbait across the mouth of a slough and caught a 9+ around 0830. ran around some more trying to reproduce that idea, nothing. ended up down the lake around some grass tha had produced some fish. finally around 1030 i caught another on a lipless. milled around in that grass for a couple of hours managing to get 2 more solid fish on the lipless. ran into dallas bay to scratch out another keeper to make #5. spent the rest of the day working my way back up the lake trying to catch a BIG but it just didnt happen. ended the day with 24+ and the win.