Anglers In Action Teams

[jmes]

Well it took 24.90 lbs to win today and it took 12.60 for for the last place in the money

which was what I took. Big bass was 7.67 lbs I believe

I believe there was around 58 boats today

All in all not a bad day considering the Crazy weather

On a side note there was a Bass Weekend series today as well, I'm not sure what it took to win

and there is a Anglers in Action Solo Pro on Sunday

[Pepe]

I thought there must have been more than one tournament. We were peacefully fishing in the cold mist this morning when, at about 7:30. the boats tore by us like Greyhounds at the track. The rabbit must have been up the White River because that was the popular spot.

We caught 7 bass in the first hour, on homemade finesse jigs, and 6 were keepers. One was a beautiful golden colored K with side and belly spots almost like a rainbow. We couldn't make the phone camera work though. All the fish we caught were in about 18 ft of water on steep banks near timber. VERY light bite. We went in at 8 for breakfast and to work on the motor.

When we hit the lake again about 12:30 the north wind was blowing and we fished an hour and 1/2 without a bite.

We changed the twist on fuel filter/separator but the 225 Opti is still stumbling when the throttle is opened up.

[Alex Heitman]

Hat off to the Fann boys again. Big sack with 2 brown fish mixed in. I really thought Busby had a shot at winning but then I seen the Fann's sack and knew it would be real close. We struggled most of the day. I lost a big one and that hurt pretty bad for a while. My mistake though. After you get hung up a lot with those arigs it's time to switch hooks is all I will say. We ended up with about 10 fish total for the day and only 3 keeps for a little over 7lbs. Let me just say I would really like to follow the fann boys some day and just watch haha

[Bodeknocker]

I thought there must have been more than one tournament. We were peacefully fishing in the cold mist this morning when, at about 7:30. the boats tore by us like Greyhounds at the track. The rabbit must have been up the White River because that was the popular spot.

We caught 7 bass in the first hour, on homemade finesse jigs, and 6 were keepers. One was a beautiful golden colored K with side and belly spots almost like a rainbow. We couldn't make the phone camera work though. All the fish we caught were in about 18 ft of water on steep banks near timber. VERY light bite. We went in at 8 for breakfast and to work on the motor.

When we hit the lake again about 12:30 the north wind was blowing and we fished an hour and 1/2 without a bite.

We changed the twist on fuel filter/separator but the 225 Opti is still stumbling when the throttle is opened up.

Danger Close:

THX for the report. Regarding your stumbling Opti, you might check the condition of fuel hoses on the inside of the cowl. Mine was giving me intermittent trouble and had stumped the mechanics for more than a year. Turns out the long fuel hose on the motor was collapsing sometimes when I opened it up.

[Pepe]

Danger Close:

THX for the report. Regarding your stumbling Opti, you might check the condition of fuel hoses on the inside of the cowl. Mine was giving me intermittent trouble and had stumped the mechanics for more than a year. Turns out the long fuel hose on the motor was collapsing sometimes when I opened it up.

Ahhhh. Thank you for that tip. I replaced all the fuel hose up to the engine because the previous owner used ethanol gas that did not play well with the rubber lines. I had not thought of the internal line weakening and collapsing. We will fish tomorrow close to to home to avoid running it above idle and then have a pro look at it. I will put that bug in his ear. Thank, again.

[Champ188]

Danger, one more crazy little suggestion. The 2004 Opti that we had on the Champion was cutting out on top end during a Central Pro-am derby at LOZ. I limped thru the week with it only to get home and find the connections on my cranking battery were corroded. Once I cleaned them up and locked everything down good and tight, the problem was solved. I had started thinking on the way home that it was only cutting out when I hit rough water, which was jostling the battery around.

Just something to think about.

[Bill Babler]

It took 12 pounds in the weekend series, out of State Park. Marcus Sakoia won it. I heard they had 38 boats. I'm pretty sure none of them went to the White very far, that is just a monster boat ride from State Park.

[Bill Babler]

I fished the Solo Pro yesterday and ran up the White River. I believe there were 101 boats, a very nice field. I was boat 69 and that Phoenix ran down every other boat headed up the White River. Which to my surprise were not very many. Most boats either turned left or went up the James.

I did not shut it down till the Eagle Rock ramp. I fished every thing and fished it very well that I have been catching fish on for the last 6 weeks, and did not have a bite on anything I threw. I was just amazed. I fished very slow and made presentation to all the channel roll-off brush piles that I have marked up there and talked to at least 3 other derby boats and a couple of locals. Nothing.

Pulled up past Big M headed down stream and at 12:06 got my first bite of the day. I preceded to catch 3 keepers on 3 casts, all on a FB jig. I had not had a bite on the A-Rig all morning. All 3 were K's with 1 nice 17 incher but the other two were board bumping very thin males. All had crayfish sticking out of there craws.

Threw the jig for 2 more hours without another bite and then pulled on a bank just upstream from Baxter and caught 4 in 4 casts all short K's.

Total for the day was 7 bites all on a jig, zero bites on a A-Rig. Caught every bite I had and just could not put it together. 8 pounds got a check. Thought I probably had around 7 but did not weigh them in with all the boat traffic.

I put in at the Schooner creek ramp at 6 AM and had the last parking place. When I pulled out at 3:30 there were only 4 rigs left in the lot and the weighin was not until 3:40.

Someone always catches them and I heard it took 19 pounds to win.

Good Luck

[Alex Heitman]

Bill I think the cold rain really shut them down for the most part on Sunday. Water temps were 2-3 degrees colder that morning. It seems right now the way things are you can go a really long time without a bite then bam you catch fish on consecutive cast. Really makes it hard to decide if you should wait it out for them to bite or move to another spot. Should be some good fishing coming with these warmer temps.

[Bill Babler]

Bill I think the cold rain really shut them down for the most part on Sunday. Water temps were 2-3 degrees colder that morning. It seems right now the way things are you can go a really long time without a bite then bam you catch fish on consecutive cast. Really makes it hard to decide if you should wait it out for them to bite or move to another spot. Should be some good fishing coming with these warmer temps.

Ya, I agree for sure. What folks are not seeing with these tournament winning weights is that these bags are for the most part coming with very few bites. Just the right kind of bites.

My thought on this weekend were that the teams would beat these fish up pretty bad especially with multiply tournaments going on both days. A good White River Bag regardless of who you are is a 17 pound bag. My thoughts were that I could catch maybe 12 fish and that is what I have been catching, that would put that kind of weight in the box, assuming it would not take 20 plus pounds on a Sunday after the weather and such a big Saturday.

I have been catching all LM and just about no K's. I have had about 6 deep piles up the White that I am catching a 4 to 6 pounder off of about every time I go up there. Not off each pile, but a big fish off one of the locations. They are not fished, by anyone that I know of. They did not bite up there yesterday. I threw a rig on them a jig and a big worm. NADA. I went up for a minute on Friday and caught a couple on a transition, and that that might also be a place.

With all the derby's we have been having and people can really fish now and know locations, if it looks good it has been hit multiple times during the day. You have to have some stuff that is just not visible to really help. They just did not bite for me. The water had really cooled off. It was 40.1 degree up the White on Saturday morning and when I pulled out at 3:30 at Schooner it was still only 42 even. About a 3 to 5 degree drop in surface temps with the cool rain and 28 degree Saturday night.

Not one friggin bite till NOON, not even a sniff. I was just giggling at this telling myself gosh you really are stinking this up. But like I tell my clients, the harder it is the harder you need to fish and I kept my nose to the ground till juat about right at the end. I thought I fished well, and caught the ones that bit. I think again if anything I just heard the best bite including the Fann's bite has been coming from Beardsley to Youcum Creek. I hate to fish that area, but probably should have.