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[Bill Babler]

There's a line from Big Jake in there somewhere I think.

Just looked through the pics. Seems he pretty much caught them before the wind started as well.

Right as Rain Pilgrims. Dave you are watching way to much educational TV. He culled 3 later in the day when he was fighting the wind. He caught 2 fish a nice LM and a Jaw at 16 that allowed him to cull 2 of his early dock fish that were K's for the win. Without those last 2 that came late he would not have sealed the deal.

His reels are stock. He says to Bill. "Beck, those Dawia Steez reels are just to fancy for me."

[Old plug]

BILL my father was more of a bait caster than a fisherman . He belonged to that casting club in forrest park in St louis in the 40's and 50's. Also used to cast in the sports show in St louis. He taught me to cast on a local horseshoe pit. foot against one peg and the target was the other peg. He also taught me you do bot cast to a target you cast to the target you cast to a spot inside the target. Casting a casting plug is one thing but when you get out there on the water making long cast with a lure under windy conditions it is really tuff specially with a fast reel. To this day I use reels with no backlash control and so loose there is a slight wobble. And they are lightening fast. Really with 8 lb. test on a long rod under windy conditions I would expect him to have some backlashes. I use 10 on some of my bait-casters. I no longer make long cast at 75 yrs old, but I have been a believer in it for a long time. You stop and think about it you realize the farther you are away the less notice you will be giving the fish. Everything you do in the boat makes a vibration that transfers thought the water.

Whoever taught him the art of bait casting did it right. He very clearly understands the whole of balancing a rod and real.

[Fishin Hodge]

I can tell you from being on the water with them, BassTrak was extremely accurate from my experience. It was down to the bank, not just the cove.

For me anyways, Aaron Martens and KVD did not show. And the BassTrak on KJ's boat was likely accurate as he did not fish the last day. Guessing he was parked at the Landing.

[dtrs5kprs]

Didn't fish? Has to be a story there. Hope he was well.

Pop loved those Wayne movies. Can't imagine how many times we watched Big Jake, War Wagon, Sons of Katie Elder. Too many for a 5 or 6 year old no doubt.

Being stuck up here I just did not know when the wind got up.

[Bill Babler]

BILL my father was more of a bait caster than a fisherman . He belonged to that casting club in forrest park in St louis in the 40's and 50's. Also used to cast in the sports show in St louis. He taught me to cast on a local horseshoe pit. foot against one peg and the target was the other peg. He also taught me you do bot cast to a target you cast to the target you cast to a spot inside the target. Casting a casting plug is one thing but when you get out there on the water making long cast with a lure under windy conditions it is really tuff specially with a fast reel. To this day I use reels with no backlash control and so loose there is a slight wobble. And they are lightening fast. Really with 8 lb. test on a long rod under windy conditions I would expect him to have some backlashes. I use 10 on some of my bait-casters. I no longer make long cast at 75 yrs old, but I have been a believer in it for a long time. You stop and think about it you realize the farther you are away the less notice you will be giving the fish. Everything you do in the boat makes a vibration that transfers thought the water.

Whoever taught him the art of bait casting did it right. He very clearly understands the whole of balancing a rod and real.

Excellent post, that is the kind of information that makes this the site it is. Thanks Plug

[Bill Babler]

I can tell you from being on the water with them, BassTrak was extremely accurate from my experience. It was down to the bank, not just the cove.

For me anyways, Aaron Martens and KVD did not show. And the BassTrak on KJ's boat was likely accurate as he did not fish the last day. Guessing he was parked at the Landing.

How are they tracked do you have any idea? Is it information from their GPS or do they have some type of a mobile tracker placed in the boat. It that were the case, if KVD or AMart did not want you to know could they just turn it off?

[jmes]

I was at home watching them on the BASSTRAKK and I notice it didn't show them either, but If I set it up to just look for them.It would show them everytime but only if I did it one person at a time

[Fishin Hodge]

I was looking at it from my cell phone and never tried to search for KVD or Martens in particular so that makes sense. I think it is the device that the Marshalls enter the weights on that transmits the location.

Any of you marshalls know for sure?

[*T*]

No trouble seeing all of the anglers on my devices, but there were ocassional slow refresh periods. Dang, they were fishing all of MY spots. What the?

[Quillback]

KVD and Amart were on the Trakker - but I had to select them from the drop down menu as they weren't there by default for whatever reason.