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I was right whatever bait they would have hit left it at home or on a sporting goods shelf still,I did so good they wrote me  a Blank check.

Fella I drew was from Benton and like i would ,he headed home to fish by the 68 bridge,countless shorts and finnaly he came in the last hr back to cypprus bay where he proceded to get three keeepers on a jerkbait of rather odd colors,they would occasionaly hit mine or folllow to the boat and wave bye.What did manage to hook themselves were a tad short.

Air temp 22 f in that first long run,43 f water when landed I thawed out about 1/2 hr later.

Warmest water found was 47f.

Leader had lil over 14 lbs when I left.

Had a non-boater which is also a friend of mine on our last tournament. We'd never fished together. He brought a tackle store…errrr… bag that would not even fit in the big compartment on the Gambler. And – that compartment is huge. Wasn't a real big deal though we just put on the floor between the consoles and manuvered around it.

Had one guy one time that must'a had 10-12 rods plus tackle. The rods were in vinyl zip-up covers which included reel covers, plus a ton of tackle PLUS a small cooler… I drew the line at the cooler.

I travel light when going as a non-boater. One small softside that holds 4 3600 series boxes. it has pockets on the outside that hold my plastics. Both boaters I fished with at the Nationals were smilin' when I put  this minimal stuff in the boat. I usually take: Jig rod, C'rig rod, finess rod, Rat-l-trap rod(works well with chug bugs and flukes). When the top water bite is on I add one specialty rod which is my spook rod.

Good Luck!

We're all at a bit of a disavantage when non-boating. You just can't take it all. But… being a non-boater is better than not going at all!!!!

When I go as a non-boater I take only my 4 highest confidence baits. Most folks aren't fond of chunking big crank baits so I seldom take them but at the Nationals I talked to the boater and found out what we're gonna be fishing and that ended up being big cranks, c-rig, and 3/4-1oz jig plus I had my small crankbait set up with me – just in case. Ended it up throwing it some but didn't stick anything with it.

Actually we dont really do all that bad together ,generally when we have to hunt for what will ,everyone else is as well.

And most of our trips have contained keepers,some of those last trips we each limited when one thinks about it.

On that one swan bay point we each got two keepers,you got another going down the bank with a tube(smallmouth) then a drum.

The bridge yielded about two each and our ledge hole with the point got us about two each,you even more, as i took several photos of largemouth being flipped.

Many of our short fish are over 14 in,back on the ohio river that short would be a kicker.

Ive got one tomorrow morning ,hate it whe going as a non boater have to really downsize and then leave what I need at home.Have 4 rods rigged,but cannot find my favorite jerkbait box of pointers?

I could use some pointers for sure.