jbsoonerfan

I have fished when the air temp was 50 and the water temp was 42 and when the air temp was 19 and the water was 42. Fish don't wear jackets or coats. They are like every other animal in the wild. They still need to eat to survive. Finding a pattern on the other hand is a bit different.

I hope I'm am not the only one that read that differently than you meant for it to be. I'm still laughing.

I just received an email from Paypal that said there may be a conflict with the available balance on my Paypal account and the click the link below to log in and check my balance. I just deleted it and went straight to the PP website and all was well. No way I was clicking that link.

I like them showing Hite, McClelland and Elam

I'm surprised there have only been 4 fish caught over 6 lbs in these 4 days. I would figure there would have been more this time of the year down there.

Ike is a cry baby and always has been. I don't know how anyone can stand the way he acts on the water.

Wesley Strader hung up in the trees.........I can relate.

I look at this format like a tournament. The first round a certain number advances. All you have to do is advance. Same with the next round. Advance and survive. Then in the final round it's winner take all. The NCAA tournament would be pretty boring if the teams just kept their score from the previous game. This levels the playing field and gives everyone a chance in the end. If you were going to keep the weights then there would be no need to cut the field, just let them all fish till there was a winner on day 5 or 6 or whatever.

Dazed and Confused

I use a 3/0 for brush hogs, sweet beavers, chigger craws, etc. I use a 4/0 for 7" Power worms, senkos, lizrds, etc and I use a 5/0 for 10" power worms

Lofty goals for me. A DD Largemouth and a 6lb Smallmouth

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Finesse? Scorpion 70 BFS

I have been known to slip while just trying to get off on the dock to go back the truck in. I can't imagine some kind of ninja technique where I am on the TM and the dock while fishing for a bass. But, some people have also seen bigfoot, so there is that.

I have owned high end reels from Abu, Shimano and Daiwa. They all make great reels. I currently fish Shimano, but it may change by years end.

1. My Pawpaw Jake (passed) 2. Uncle Doug (passed) 3. My best friend Shawn who I fish with 99.9% of the time anyway. I have ONE best friend and that is all I really need. He has done more to help me out than I could possibly ever repay him for. I know someday we won't be able to fish together so I look forward to going with him when we can.

I'm 39 and I know my body sure does hurt a lot worse after a day on the water than it did when I was 29. To still be competing at a high level at 72 is pretty amazing in my eyes. The wealth of knowledge he has is probably more than most of us could dream of having.

Great fish, but I am stupid. Who is that?

Fish from yesterday's tournament. 4 fish, 18.99 lbs for third place and BB with a 6.28.

So, a couple weeks ago @BassAddict1911 sent me a PM saying he still needed a tournament close to where I live. We met up last saturday at Konawa to do a little pre-fishing. It was 46 and sunny. We threw the tackle box at them and blanked. The forecast for today was a low of 19 and a high of 34. Needless to say, I wasn't really expecting much. The tournament take off was moved to 8:00 am due to temps. It was 20 at take off. We got on the water only to find out the lines that pump to the live well were froze up. We figured we would just wait till we caught one and go from there. He had found a point on the map where the main channel ran and it went from 20 FOW to about 4 FOW on what appeared to be about a 45 degree slope. We didn't make it to that point but we found one real close that appeared to be very similar. He started out throwing a jerkbait and I was throwing a lipless. All was slow for a little while and then about 9:20 he hooked up. He was throwing the jerkbait and was looking at his graph. The fish slammed his jerkbait and he set the hook. He said that it feels good so I grabbed the net. She put up a good fight but we landed her. She measured 21 3/4" which is good because you are only allowed 1 fish over 22". It didn't take long and at 9:48 he was slamming another one. This time on an underspin that he was bouncing off the bottom. He said it was another big one and I grabbed the net. This one was in the boat and measured 23". SO far so good. We went cold (literally) for about another hour or so. This time we had moved a little bit further around the point and he hooked into a good on an Alabama Rig. I grabbed the net and we had a nice lil chunk in the box. Maybe 30 min later I was able to catch a nice one on a lipless. We had 4 in the box and needed one more to make us feel better about our chances. We figured if we were catching them, others were as well. We didn't get another bite till about 1:20. Once again, on the Alabam rig he hooked a good one. I saw her roll and she was a sold 4 lb fish. He told me she wasn't hooked well at all. I extended the net and tried to get under her. She shook and I had the rig hooked in the net. I lifted up so he could lip her and she came unhooked and away she went. I felt terrible. We got back for weigh in at 3:00 and their were mumblings of 19 lb being in the lead. We figured we were close. We were the last team to weigh in and our 4 fish tipped the scales at 18.99 with the biggest being 6.28. We ended up winning 3rd place and big bass. First was 19.78 and second was 19.29. Pretty good day when the bites you get are good ones. So, if you ever need a partner for a tournament just start a thread on here, you never know. LOL

Bringing this back up. So, a couple weeks ago @BassAddict1911 sent me a PM saying he still needed a partner for this tourney. We met up last saturday at Konawa to do a little pre-fishing. It was 46 and sunny. We threw the tackle box at them and blanked. The forecast for today was a low of 19 and a high of 34. Needless to say, I wasn't really expecting much. The tournament take off was moved to 8:00 am due to temps. It was 20 at take off. We got on the water only to find out the lines that pump to the live well were froze up. We figured we would just wait till we caught one and go from there. He had found a point on the map where the main channel ran and it went from 20 FOW to about 4 FOW on what appeared to be about a 45 degree slope. We didn't make it to that point but we found one real close that appeared to be very similar. He started out throwing a jerkbait and I was throwing a lipless. All was slow for a little while and then about 9:20 he hooked up. He was throwing the jerkbait and was looking at his graph. The fish slammed his jerkbait and he set the hook. He said that it feels good so I grabbed the net. She put up a good fight but we landed her. She measured 21 3/4" which is good because you are only allowed 1 fish over 22". It didn't take long and at 9:48 he was slamming another one. This time on an underspin that he was bouncing off the bottom. He said it was another big one and I grabbed the net. This one was in the boat and measured 23". SO far so good. We went cold (literally) for about another hour or so. This time we had moved a little bit further around the point and he hooked into a good on an Alabama Rig. I grabbed the net and we had a nice lil chunk in the box. Maybe 30 min later I was able to catch a nice one on a lipless. We had 4 in the box and needed one more to make us feel better about our chances. We figured if we were catching them, others were as well. We didn't get another bite till about 1:20. Once again, on the Alabam rig he hooked a good one. I saw her roll and she was a sold 4 lb fish. He told me she wasn't hooked well at all. I extended the net and tried to get under her. She shook and I had the rig hooked in the net. I lifted up so he could lip her and she came unhooked and away she went. I felt terrible. We got back for weigh in at 3:00 and their were mumblings of 19 lb being in the lead. We figured we were close. We were the last team to weigh in and our 4 fish tipped the scales at 18.99 with the biggest being 6.28. We ended up winning 3rd place and big bass. First was 19.78 and second was 19.29. Pretty good day when the bites you get are good ones. So, if you ever need a partner for a tournament just start a thread on here, you never know. LOL

1. Lipless 2. LC 1.5 squarebill 3. suspending jerkbait 4. Spinnerbait

He's gonna be getting some mail soon. I found a video online about him and showed it to my 7th grade classes. http://www.kswo.com/2019/01/31/you-can-send-birthday-cards-make-wwii-vets-birthday-special/ Each student wrote him a letter. They thanked him for his service and wished him a happy early birthday. Some of them even shared a story about having a dad or grandpa or other family member who served in the military.I also got him a card from each of my classes and the kids signed them. Hopefully he enjoys mail day when it arrives. 47 letters and 5 birthday cards.

I hope we get to the point where we can have a CWR style event on the local level where people can be trusted. People still find ways to cheat on the 5 fish limit. I don't know how it could be done, but I am all for it. I have caught and unfortunately killed a couple over 6 because of stress/livewell size/water temp to make me not a fan of keeping them.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!