Hey all,

Been crazy busy, time to get caught up a little.  So I drove home all night from Leech to Lakeville thanks to some energy drinks.  Slept in, did some stuff around the house and got out on Pool 5 for about 2 hours before the registration meeting, nothing too ground breaking there.

I made the decision to run to Pool 5 and try to hit a home run in some pads.  It was a tough call, because I had some other good fish and areas as well.  I kind of talked myself into because I was kind of tired of consistent high finishes in money tournaments, but no big wins to show for it.  I attributed it to fishing to conservatively.  So I talked myself to going for a big bag. 

Long story short, made the run, locked through to Pool 5 and fished those pads for a long time and only managed one 2.5lb+ fish on a 1/2oz Fall Craw Tru-Tungsten jig.  My partner did manage to get one fish there as well.  We started to run some other areas, but I could not get any keepers, my partner got one more small keeper on a popper, we finally decided we needed to lock back up, we lost about 30 minutes waiting on a barge.

We got to one of my good areas on Pool 4, my partner caught a good one on a carolina rig and I had a good one on that came unbuttoned.  We fished a bit longer and I got one over 3lbs on a Fork Craw.  Caught a few more short fish, then deiced to fish a wing dam up by Wabasha.  About my 5th cast, I had a nice smallie suck down my Yellow Magic popper and it broke me off on the rocks.  Man just one of those days, made bad decisions and had a few key bites that I did not convert.

I weighed 2 fish for 6lbs, that put me in a 25th place, not very good.  So much for carrying momentum from Leech in to this tournament. On the bright side, other people behind me in points struggled as well and I only slipped once spot to 6th in the points, but my cushion over 9th was sliced dramatically.  Oh well, I still control my own destiny for Nationals with one two day tourney to go.  Also, my dad won his 2nd event of the year as non-boater and also got big fish.

Congrats to Skeet Reese on his AOY title and Derek Remitz on the ROY!  I think he proved that Amistad was no fluke and he belongs at the highest levels of bass fishing.  Thing should slow down a little bit, so I hope to get a few more entries on the Blog.  I practiced on the river last weekend, look for posts on that.  I also have one last club tournament on Coon Lake this Sunday, then its back to the river for more practice and tournament the following two weeks.

Also of great importance, I finished $5 up on Mr. Veech in Super 6 pick’em this year!!!!!  Also, thanks to email subscribers #44 & 45 that recently joined, I am sure you are glad to see a post, probably wondering why you signed up.

Tight Lines,