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10:59 am
June 3, 2010
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lilmule
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Every one is different id beat the crowd as well by going even shallower,regardless of where that shallow water is,here it can be in the center of the lake but prefer whole bays that are about 2 ft deep and few hundred acres.
Where you coulndt get bit t in one early T around pads is my perfect water,even whn cold water is present as long as they are near top or topped can catch fish out of them.
50 some water cold front , day last of march,and yes topwater thats a king spro that walks side to side out of teh box also not a small bait its 1 oz.
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7:42 am
June 3, 2010
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dougw
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OutdoorFrontiers said:Dang Doug, I can't just fish for five bites, although I used to fish all day for ONE bite when I muskie fished for a living…
I do it simply because most the other anglers are following each other around the shore line. Sometimes those 5 quality bites happen in less than 1/2 hour n' sometimes it takes 8 or so hours. As happened on choke canyon. Most reported catching tons of fish, 50-75 on Saturday, I weighed in 3. I broke off several times on hook sets – one of these days I may actually learn how to tie a knot! I've had a couple of friends ask me how I manage to win so many tournaments. I do it by trying to do something different or fish different areas. Also even though I know the lake I pour over a paper map and my GPS Navonics map looking for key areas I know don't get fished or don't get fished much. Then in practice I check those spots out througly. I fish extremes alot. Either extremely deep or extremely shallow. If I catch a single fish off a hump/point I have no problem spending a few hours there on tournament day waiting for the fish to move up or get hungry.
Heading to Coleto Creek in the morning. Had a friend in the district call last night n' ask me what I was doing. I told him…. "Setting way points on Coleto Creek!" We both know Coleto is a rather small lake, relative to Choke, Falcon, Amistad… He was amazed that I'd spend the time doing that on such a small lake… But hey…. it works for me – most of the time. All I know for sure is this year I've fished a total of 15 ABA tournaments. Of those I've won 6 and finished in the money a total of 7 times. Total winnings from ABA this year equal 2,672.00. That's probably close to what I've spent fishing'em but still far better than a dull stick in the eye!
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7:57 pm
June 2, 2010
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OutdoorFrontiers
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Dang Doug, I can't just fish for five bites, although I used to fish all day for ONE bite when I muskie fished for a living…
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Steve Huber Editor in Chief/Executive Producer OutdoorFrontiers Multi-Media
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11:02 pm
May 31, 2010
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lilmule
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I should be so lucky,then again dont have to put up with green card bass,or those that should have one .
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8:39 pm
May 31, 2010
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dougw
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HOT! Water temps in the 80's n' 90's(92 was the highest I saw n' 85 was the lowest)
Worked humps and underwater points. Had caught some good fish prefishing at a couple of spots on Friday. Hit'em early Saturday… Took about an 1.5 hours to boat the first fish 5.5-6#er. Then nothing for close to 4 hours. I had two humps that where within trolling motor distance. Caught a number of short fish early but I went hours without so much as a bite. Remember – I only fish for 5 bits so I wasn't frettin' about it. But come 12:30, with weigh-in at 4pm, I say to myself… "Dude at some point you have to admit this ain't working!" 12:30 was when I made that decision. I had located some fluke fish up the river in a pocket with grass in about 3-4' of water… Hit that area with a fluke working it on top just about as fast as I could making it look like a fleeing shad…. The bass liked that. I caught two decent fish… missed several, as will happen when fluke fishing. Then had one just blow up on the fluke… Kinna like a flushing comode! Hooked up the fish heads for the grass…. I kick trolling motor on high and go charging over there. From the amount of water that fish moved when it hit I'm thinking 8+ or better…. Get the fish out of the grass and in the boat. 16″ fish maybe 2#s. Only thing I can figure is that big fish missed and the little fish got it 'cause theirs no way that 2#er would have made the hole in the water that I saw on the initial blowup! Fluke bite dies… Run back to humps… Nothing. Head to weigh in with 3 fish for the day. Finished 5th with 10+. Broke off a couple of times on the hump that I'm pretty sure were decent fish and missed a couple of good fish on the fluke. 13#s won and I have no doubt had I boated any two of the fish I missed….
Sunday – Same game plan. Same locations… Hit the humps…. I start of with the c'rig…. nothing. Switch to a Trap on top the hump….catch several 13″ fish and have a keeper come unbuttoned. Go back to c'rig….. "Tug…" Hook set… 7.5#er in the boat! Good!… 2 more hours and not a single bite. I believe I waited too long the day before to head for the fluke fish so at 9:30 I up the trolling motor and head to my fluke spot.. MMMmmmm maybe I'm too early… There is no activity similar to the previous two days… But I make my rounds and end up taking two fish out of that area…. Sooo… time to go back to the humps. I've got 3 hours to catch 2 more fish. I'm not on the first hump 15 minutes n' tug… tug… set the hook. 6.5#er in the boat…. Good got almost 2 hours to catch one more fish… Didn't happen. Head to weigh-in with 4 fish. Those 4 fish weighed 17#+ and was good enough for the win and big fish. The bad part was on Saturday there were 17 folks fishing. More money n' better points. On Sunday only 11 showed up…. Winnings paid for the trip but there weren't enough points to help me.
We have the District 119 2-day championship next weekend on Coleto Creek and the following weekend District 51 has their two day championship on Amistad.
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