Classic

[DADAKOTA]

If I am not mistaken Christie and Evers room together on the road and are great friends.  I don't believe Evers saved his spot for day 3, but was not going to fish it until he had the right wind which blew in on Sunday.  I'd love to see how they'd dissect some of the small county lakes around KC.  See what their approach would be at different times of the year.

[Ham]

38 minutes ago, Sore Thumbs said:

KVD didn't have a keeper on day 2. I have been fishing over there a couple times in the last two months preparing for a tournament in late March. I haven't gotten a bite. It is brutal at Grand right now. To catch as much as those guys did is fantastic. Just about the time the lake is ready it's gonna dump a bunch of rain and muddy up the rivers too. Gonna be interesting. 

Location, location, location. Table Rock and Bull Shoals both can have parts of the lake where the bite is impossibly tough and other parts of the lake where the living is easy. If Grand is anything like our lakes, I can see guys struggling to find the fish in the short practice with the lake changing quickly. Surprised somebody didn't throw KVD a bone so he could catch a few fish though.

[Sore Thumbs]

I agree Ham. Grand is like Table rock as far as finding a pattern and it working in multiple spots. Kind of hard to find a pattern without a bite.?

[mixermarkb]

I met E2 at a BPS seminar here at the St. Charles location. It wasn't very crowded, and he was very nice to me. He doesn't seem to be an outgoing, gregarious personality type, but he sat and talked Bull Shoals with me for at least 15 minutes, and gave me lots of good advice about time management while pre-fishing and on tournament day.

I know some knock him as having been rude and unpleasant, but I found that far from the case. From following him on Facebook, he seems like a guy who is seriously intense and focused on fishing and his family, and maybe just a little bit of an introvert. I can identify. Making friends and talking to folks in public is a challenge for me. One on one, I'll talk your ear off. In a group, I'll stand around and look at the floor a lot. 

I'm a fan, and happy he won him a classic. He's one of the very best of all time in my opinion, right up there with KVD and some of the others, minus some of the marketing skills.

[mixermarkb]

One of the things he told me was that even if he's fishing cold water, and has to retrieve slow, when pre-fishing, he doesn't spend more than 5 minutes on a spot without a bite. He also said he never makes more than 5 bite-less casts without changing retrieve, or lure or color. He doesn't camp out in any one area for long unless he's catching keepers. 

That is hard advice to follow, but I catch more fish when I heed it. 

And to those who don't think bass fishing is a physical sport, yank a trolling motor up every five minutes, run through waves like they had at Grand, cast a whole lot, and rinse and repeat for 8 hours straight and tell me how many ibuprofen you pop when you get out of bed the next morning! 

[abkeenan]

53 minutes ago, mixermarkb said:

One of the things he told me was that even if he's fishing cold water, and has to retrieve slow, when pre-fishing, he doesn't spend more than 5 minutes on a spot without a bite. He also said he never makes more than 5 bite-less casts without changing retrieve, or lure or color. He doesn't camp out in any one area for long unless he's catching keepers. 

That is hard advice to follow, but I catch more fish when I heed it. 

And to those who don't think bass fishing is a physical sport, yank a trolling motor up every five minutes, run through waves like they had at Grand, cast a whole lot, and rinse and repeat for 8 hours straight and tell me how many ibuprofen you pop when you get out of bed the next morning! 

Dave shield your eyes from this or you might have a mild ned heart attack with this kind of talk.

[Sore Thumbs]

Funny.

[Bill Babler]

On ‎3‎/‎8‎/‎2016 at 6:25 AM, Champ188 said:

I was in the newspaper business for 35 years and that's one heckuva good shot, Gabe. Captures all the emotion, etc.

If your a fishing guide you never want that look.  I've had it.

[Sore Thumbs]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

If your a fishing guide you never want that look.  I've had it.

A lot of pressure to produce fish I'm sure. Customers know up front that nothing is guaranteed but you want them to be on fish regardless. I admire your ability to do that day in and day out. It has to be a grind. 

[Unimog]

Speaking for myself, I'd would imagine a good guide would be more upset with themselves for not putting me on fish than I would be at them. Id like to think a fisherman knows the deal going in. By the same token I've also been on guide trips where I've felt all I did was pay to watch a guy fish for 8 hours and they were glad to take my money.