Meeting some MLF anglers.

[Lvn2Fish]

Lol look at all that gear !! I can just hear these boys “ ah yeah, you have to have some these “ until you amass a pile like that ! 

[WWM]

Short update: got a call last week from Dustin Connell. He had just finished a MLF cup event in Arkansas and wanted to know if u wanted to go fishing. Well of course I do DC... We went out last Thursday and flat out caught them up all the way up the James. You could say I learned a ton about electronics and how he approaches different types of situations. 

After weeding through several schools of mostly spotted bass we (he) spotted a school of largemouth on the electronics and we went to town! It was crazy how he called them out as big largemouth and then caught a 5lber on his first cast.

We were on the water from 11am until dark then I treated him to one last harter house filet before he headed out north Friday morning... Memories that will change the way I fish moving forward and last a lifetime, hopefully! 

[snagged in outlet 3]

27 minutes ago, WWM said:

Short update: got a call last week from Dustin Connell. He had just finished a MLF cup event in Arkansas and wanted to know if u wanted to go fishing. Well of course I do DC... We went out last Thursday and flat out caught them up all the way up the James. You could say I learned a ton about electronics and how he approaches different types of situations. 

After weeding through several schools of mostly spotted bass we (he) spotted a school of largemouth on the electronics and we went to town! It was crazy how he called them out as big largemouth and then caught a 5lber on his first cast.

We were on the water from 11am until dark then I treated him to one last harter house filet before he headed out north Friday morning... Memories that will change the way I fish moving forward and last a lifetime, hopefully! 

I bet that was awesome!!!  How cool. 

[m&m]

WWM, electronics certainly help. Great pictures. We now expect your reports in the future to be very detailed and hopefully you will find similar success. Sometime the fish win. 

Mike

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

That so awesome.  I wonder if those guys are tired of the numbers game. His excitement for finding largemouth would make one think that.   He has been successful in both 5 bigs and numbers game though

[WWM]

2 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

That so awesome.  I wonder if those guys are tired of the numbers game. His excitement for finding largemouth would make one think that.   He has been successful in both 5 bigs and numbers game though

My take for these guys and MLF overall is they all like catching bass big (duh) or small if needed ($). It’s more the pieces of the puzzle for them... They would go target big bass all day if they needed too but with the given format and a lake like our beast it’s a numbers game to $100k. Too much moving around equals elimination in most cases. 

Will be interesting to see if they change minimums next year up or down for certain lakes...

[Smalls21]

I got to meet Dustin Connell  on Friday, he dropped his boat off for an oil change, in talking to him he seems like a really laid back guy, "good ol' boy"

[Mr. Smallfish]

I watched their Youtube videos.  That's quite a shanty you have at the lake.

[Flysmallie]

Great story and friendships for life. I especially love the kids getting to meet their heroes.

I encourage all of you that have kids to get out there and help them meet their heroes. Doesn't have to be fishing, just give them that opportunity. Some will not be great but most are very eager to do it. I've helped one of my daughters meet some of her heroes over the last year and to see that excitement in her eyes is priceless. Plus she has made friends with some that are as excited about helping her succeed as they are in themselves. 

[WWM]

13 hours ago, Smalls21 said:

I got to meet Dustin Connell  on Friday, he dropped his boat off for an oil change, in talking to him he seems like a really laid back guy, "good ol' boy"

My whole trip with him happened because he couldn’t get in with y’all on Thursday! Did you get him dialed in? He was having one issue...