Tournament 10/29....... My Cousins first 10/30

[Cool hand Fluke]

Tournament morning, got on the water around 4:30 a.m. in search of bait, definitely harder than in the evenings, threw who knows how many times, that amounted in two dozen moneymakers and two snags that shredded my net! To my surprise when we arrived where I wanted to fish, there was only one other boat! Started pulling I had 3 bankside planers, two floats and a single planer in the channel all freelines, around 7:15 we had a blowup on a float, as my cousin was fighting it for all of 5 seconds it came off, about that time the other float goes down producing a 24 inch fish, turned out the first one pulled the hook off, a first for me considering how anal I am about my knots (lesson learned to double check), we decided to stay in that area and just keep working both sides, we were getting plenty of short strikes and even some take downs, but nothing hooking up, finally the only boat we had to work around, I had pulled my planers in as I was setting them back out into position, I had gotten to the back board letting it pull back in freespool and as soon as I hit the switch, it got slammed producing a 33 inch, fished hard after hoping for another 30 plus inch fish to no avail! All in all a great time for our first tournament!




Today I set out with my 15 year old cousin, with the same spread out I was able to get him on his first two Stripers, we had two other strikes! I'm exhausted and pretty sure I'm coming down with something, but one of the funnest weekends in awhile!

[KB]

Awesome job.

[Shadslinger]

Great weekend man.

[mwardncsu]

Good stuff - thanks for coming out and glad you had a good time!

Thought that might be you I honked and yelled at today as I passed and saw those sweet hoodies you were wearing I was doing a "thumbs up" - hope you didn't think it was a different finger

[seajay]

Nice job and great report.

[psuhntr]

nice job!