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Offline GETFISHED

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The fat lady sang
« on: June 14, 2011, 08:55:43 AM »
Sunday mornin we had the cloud cover. I decided to scoot on up the river mouth . The place I wanted to start was along the river channel edges where it bottlenecks to go under a bridge. The water is about 15' in the channel. During periods of high water the river deposits silt right after it comes through the bridge and fans out on the flats. As a result the channel is also silted in for a good ways before you make it to the bridge. It only about 1.6' on my depthfinder for about 70 yrds. I went through there Thursday all trimmed way up about 1 mph.  Well on Sunday I came in there with a bit of a pucker factor, about 58 mph . I scooted in there to fish the channel edges right at the bottleneck. It sort of paid off indirectly. I was in there about 45 min. throwing Kermit around with complete abandon and one little 13 1/2" bass crashed it as I danced it around over the top of a laydown at the channel edge. That was it.  Nothing else.
     I don't like looking for fish on Tourney day but I absolutely did not get one bite on Thursday prefishing. I decided to head over to the cleaner water and start fairly close to the main lake.
     As I was zooming along I looked over at this small cove and from a distance I saw something interesting. I veered over there and decided to give it a quick going over.  The first cast gave up a 16 1/2"  and I perked up after that. This cove had the right combination of ingredients, good water color, deeper water once inside the mouth, close to the main lake, 3 different transition banks, and some lovely isolated laydown cover. I caught fish on the laydowns with the frog and a gatortail 5" worm on a shakeyhead, on the transition banks I was having success with a chartreuse/black back KVD 1.5 silent squarebill that I had given a UV clearcoat.
     I was happy for the cloud cover and the fish activity level but surmised that if the fish were active for me they would be active for everyone else so you can imagine my surprise when they announced at the weigh in that I had won overall and the big bass prize. I didn't have hopes that I had anything at all .
     My wife accompanied me and once again she caught a rather large 13" crappie on a green spinnerbait with a colorado blade. We had a good day.
     I think that is probably gonna be the last good success for the year in the club for me. We have 3 more tourneys and I am not optimistic about any of them

     
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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2011, 09:48:37 AM »
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together.  Even if it weren't really a plan to begin with.

Like Lefty Evans always says, "I'd rather be lucky than good any day." ;D
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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2011, 09:50:28 AM »
Congratulations Get!
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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2011, 03:16:53 PM »
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together.  Even if it weren't really a plan to begin with.

Like Lefty Evans always says, "I'd rather be lucky than good any day." ;D

Ha, ha Dayne. I do , I do. But I was awake half the night because I didn't have a plan and had no choice but to use what little wits I still have which aint much cause I was naughty when I was young. I call it fishing by the seat of my pants.  I was certainly happy things did fall in place.  I caught my 2 biggest fish on the crankbait and I just am not a cranker. I much rather power pitch morsels into the hidey holes.
     I haven't yet figured the art of using all those hooks on those cranks. One of my fish almost got me impaled on one of those hooks.  I never have that problem with a single hook bait like a jig or Texas rig.



 
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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2011, 03:17:55 PM »
Congrats Get! Sounds like you pieced the puzzle quite nicely.

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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2011, 03:27:15 AM »
How many times have we heard some pro say “I just went fishing”?  Sounds like a plan to me!
I hate them baits with a bunch of hooks myself. I once spent a day with a hook imbedded in my left palm.
Congrats Steve.

P.S. I have run my MG into rocks and mud banks more than once. It must be a Timex. ;D

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Re: The fat lady sang
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2011, 07:19:33 PM »
Hate to hear she didn't wear you out on the buzzbait, Get! But, congrats on piecing it together!
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