LittleRedFisherman

Merry Christmas!

Looks like a great time boys. Sure hate I missed this one

Well y’all my daughter had a good surprise for us here at home but may affect my jigfest. She called us and said what are you doing Saturday she says well I’m graduating college Saturday at ASU. She had been finishing her degree unbeknownst to us. So super proud of her finally finishing that being. Wife, mom and a job. So I’m gonna try to be there Friday at least to fish. I’ll let y’all know. Bret.

I’m in as of now! Missed last year not this year

Great catches Pete! I need to get back out on the river

Have met Cody a few times Jeff including this winter. He won a winter tourney they had on Bull and I got big bass. He seemed like a good dude and for sure knows how to fish on Bull.

That’s awesome Ham. I like that pole mount for chasing crappie. We got to get together soon

Mitch I’ve tied the trilene knot my whole life it’s hard to beat imo

Same here Pete what I’m running into also this year. Hate missing these especially being an OG lol.

Yes I have one love the motor but I had a leash installed like he mentions

7-9 would work for me have plans that next weekend Cody.

Heck yeah Pete! Wish I could get out there right now. It’s buzzbait time

Interesting topic and comments. It is for sure a mental grind for these guys and day after day of fishing and practice I’m sure takes a mental toll. Those guys at this last bass master event many of them were on the line of loosing qualification, those that did either fish the gauntlet of the 9 opens again or move on. Not all all independently wealthy, I’d say many aren’t. The rookie of the year this year joey cifuentes slept in his in some of his qualifying torunys too,get where he’s at now. Far as comparing who works harder that doesn’t matter to me every job is different, at times I feel my job is as mental a grind as anything but it’s different for everyone.

Thank Jeff. Yeah it was an experience would love to go back sometime

Last weekend Landen and Collin got to fish a 2 day tourney at Millwood lake in southwest AR. Last year we missed the state championship because of my work but this year being ahead of the game and a timely rain we were able to make it! Basically we are more Ozark fisherman so Millwood was different for sure. Lots of grass mats, wood, anlligators and stumps everywhere. There are boat lanes but if you get out of them it’s bad news. We decided to head up little river and fish the river and the many backouts with even more grass and pads and cypress trees. Practice day was Friday and I get to fish those, there were for,sure fish on the edge of the grass mats. We haven’t done much punching so the boys chose to,fish along the edge with spinner bait and swim baits. The swim baits hang up a lot but the fish liked them so,that was their weapon plus spinner baits. Day one was a grind and they Only had 2 keepers with 45 to weigh in and a bunch of shorts till Landen got a swim bait hung in the grass. As he was trying to pop it loose an explosion happened right beside it, all of a sudden his line took off and he set the hook. When he got it to the boat she weighed 5.04, that fish bailed them out setting in fifth place and big bAss for day 1 in the jr division. Senior high had a couple 8 pounders weighed in. Day 2 they focused more on spinner baits throwing them under trees and in the shade, they caught a ton of fish but no kickers. At this point that upper river had been fished hard and the big bites were tougher. At one point Landen who is good with the Livescope said dad let me try to video game some as he calls it. I said go for it so he found a wad of fish in the middle of a channel, when I saw them I was like he’s into something here. He commenced to drop spotting them and sure enough it was a fish every cast, only problem they were all white bass ha ha. Anyhow they had a great time and finished in the top 10, didn’t make nationals but got a plaque and a check for big bass on day one. It was a great time and learning experience. Landens buddy Collin has improved so much when he started this with us he had never thrown a bait caster, now I’m watching him skip stuff under trees. Those boys can hang with the old man now with casting, that makes me a proud captain! There season is over now till September lookin forward to it again! God Bless….Bret