Y'all I am beyond ecstatic! I have not bass fished in months! We have lamb showing with my son for FFA... It's been rough, everyday we've been doing something with these lambs... Getting discouraged about not placing very much.... But not today!!! My son was a straight GOAT showing a lamb!!! Got 3rd in showmanship, 1st in wether market weight class, Reserve Champion in market wethers overall.... And gosh dang Grand Champion in Georgia Born lambs!!! I could not take a picture with him because I would have lost it. Not to mention my wife has been running things in the shadows and deserves her spot on the stage!

Yesterday while getting everything tied up for this morning’s tournament, my son grabbed my rod and said

“Daddy!?”

“Yeah, buddy?”

“I fish like you and Papa and win some cha-ching?”

Fast forward to this morning… on that same rod, throwing an SMH Worm on an SMH Shaky Head, I stuck this 3.7-pound spot that earned a little “cha-ching.”I’d say my little man’s good luck rubbed off on me! 💙 Thanks for the good luck, buddy. Daddy loves you more than you’ll ever know. 🎣💰 #ChaChing #SMHFishing #MakingMemories #FishingWithPurpose

Found A few of the best largemouth I’ve caught at my home lake on Sunday. SMH head with a powerbait 4 inch chigger craw. I did some experimentation by putting on a shaky head worm…. fished the same areas with one pole picked up the other with the craw on the SMH head and caught bass. Don’t know if it was color or action or smell… crawl works and worm hasn’t both using the same 3/16 ounce SMH head.

Hey SUFam! I know we had some people bummed that couldn't make it to the roundtable talking about crank

baits so today is your chance to jump in the conversation. We'll see you all at 8PM EST tonight using the runnable link below.

Also we're seeing a lot of pretty awesome tournament finishes and we'd love to hear about this too! See you all soon. 🤙🏽

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Had a club tournment on Sunday on one of the hardest lakes in WI, Lake Wisconsin. Everyone hates this lake on the schedule. Ive also never been happier to land 1 fish in a tournment. It was a 3lber to boot. I’m not sure what makes this lake so tuff other than the fish just don’t bite. Out of 11 boats that showed up that day, only 2 boats had a 3 bag limit. The rest only had 1-2 bass. At the same time I don’t like fishing this lake, I feel determined to break it and crack the code.

Summertime cranking on the Potomac River. Fought this 4 pounder early in the morning.

Haven't hit the dog days yet! Got out yesterday and landed 10 or 11 in the yak. Lost a few but that'll happen... on this body of water, there was a real defined weed edge and I found the bass were set up off it and not in it at all. So ran the chatter, a square bill, a MR6 crankbait at various distances off of that edge and they were just there! Lots of fun, almost got to the point where you can call your shot type thing. AND... BLats Kut tail big worm neko set up he tought us, I got one!! I think I had the hook in the wrong way though... ( I got to double check the video again ) I cought one I missed with the crank that I had marked, left, and came back to, so the thing works, 😆!

Well.... Lost the biggest Bass I've ever seen this morning. I know we all have lost fish stories, I need to get this one off my chest before my wife kicks me out of the house for constantly telling her how bummed I am. Flipped into a hole in the Lily pads about foot behind the pad line, the wind had just turned in and this was the first bank to get hit by it. Didn't feel the bite at all, was popping the lure off the ground and initially thought I was snagged, gave it a big pop to break it out of a pad stem when it started swimming into open water, leaned back on it and immediately my reel started peeling drag ( I lock my baitcasters down and use my thumb to give drag normally) kept pressure on it watched it jump in front of my kayak, it was the thickest and longest bass I have ever seen! Kept fighting it, it kept swimming and pulling drag, jumped a couple more times (my heart stopped every time it breached the surface.) I tried to stay cool and adjust my rod angle as it was swimming behind me, as I swung my rod from right to left the fish changed direction and the rod went completely straight for less then a second. Unfortunately that was long enough to shake the hook. I just sat there for 15 minutes with my hands on my head. I have caught a few just under 8 pounds and this fish made those look and feel small. On a positive note my knots and held strong, rod and reel were doing their jobs. Complete user error was the cause for losing it.

Thanks for reading, let me know the biggest Bass you guys have seen and lost. Pretty sure this would have been my first ( maybe only) double digit bass.

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Decent night. I still lost more than I caught…