Saturday I fished the Lake Quivira fishing club tournament with my buddy Tony. It's a good group of fishermen who all live on the lake which gives them a pretty big advantage. Being an Elite Series pro who lives on the lake probably gives you an even bigger advantage though! When I saw on FB that Brent Chapman was planning on fishing it with his son I knew it was going to be a serious uphill battle. I formulated a game plan the night before that we were going to go up the canals and risk getting way fewer bites in hopes that they would be the right ones. I missed 3 fish and was not having a good start when Tony set the hook on his jig and immediately one of the biggest bass I've seen out there in a long time was on the surface. Grab the net and scooped her up. 19" and 3.52 pounds was the start of our 11lb 1oz limit. 

I thought we probably finished in the money but couldn't believe when I heard we'd actually won the thing! Not only first place, but Tony's fish was good for big bass as well. He fished one of my home made finesse jigs in black/ gold flake with a Okeechobee craw colored YUM craw papi while I alternated between a home made sapphire blue 1/2oz brush jig with a black and blue Zman Batwingz trailer and a home made black on black bladed jig with a sapphire blue pit boss as a trailer. Getting the win was awesome, catching them all on my baits made it that much better    I got to talk to Brent quite a bit afterwords and he was super nice as he is every time I've gotten to chat with him, congratulated us on our win and fielded everyone's questions afterwords. I'm sure if we tried 99 more times he'd get the best of us, but just once we got to say that we got the best of the former AOY and Elite Series angler on his home lake 

Nice, Guess its time for yall to go pro! Hahah

Congrats!

What a cool story!

It was your day. Enjoy the feeling.

Congrats nice fish

It was your day. Enjoy the feeling.

What was cool was I had one of those feelings that morning, just extremely confident and calm, before we'd even launched the boat. I've had that feeling a couple times before in tournaments and almost always win on those days. If I could just find a way to have that feeling before every one!

What a cool experience!

Congratulations!

 

 

 

 

   

That is very cool.  Even to just fish against an Elite would be cool, but you beat him!  Not diminishing your acomplishment at all, please don't take this that way, but he has had a rough year this year.  He has documented his struggles and had some interesting articles on bassmasters.com.  Now he has you on his mind in the off season lol.  Bet he comes back for you next year. lol.  We sit around drinkin a few beers and talking about fishing against these guys.  I think they are good, but we have some big stix in our club too.  They just fish a club, a very expensive high profile club.

How Cool Is THAT ~ !

 

Congrats.

 

A-Jay

Awesome!