Had our “club classic” this past weekend. It is my first year tournament fishing and I’m fishing as a CO-Angler.
The lake we fish here in our state is highly pressured and to be honest I haven’t fished here since I was about 11 years old. It was a tough weekend. Guys in our club that are way better sticks then I am, fish that lake often caught goose eggs both days.
Long story short, I came in first with a whopping 6.75 lbs! 🎣🥇🏆💰
Need some advice for stopping the backlash. I have a curado dc 150hg spooled with 15lbs goro floro for jerkbait fishing. I have the dial set to 4 and I have the spool tension non set to moderate I’d say. Letting the lure free fall and all seems fine but go and make a light cast like Brian said in some of his videos and the thing starts getting backlash. Only thing I can think of is I spooled the line on the wrong direction as it came off the spool but I’m not sure. Hate to waste a fresh spool of line unless there’s any way to fix it?
Thanks
Good day and lessons learned. Landed a striper but destroyed my new B. Lat. Also first time using a bump board, posted for feeback.
I need some expert advice. This afternoon I went to try out my new BLat Series 6.8 rod. My Baitcaster with 30# braid on it, and it casts really well with that rod. So this little lake, called Lake Reba is only about 75 acres and NO ONE is on it, except some guys on this long pier type thing (catfish I think). While casting, I kept pulling thru a bunch of green stuff... See pic. There is also an island and a section covered in lily pads. So I'm excited to try my hand at this. The only bait I had with me was a chatterbait. I could pull through it but constantly having to clear my hook. How would you fish this stuff? I was trying the BLat advice "throw what no o ne else is throwing". 😆
I want to fish it because I did get a bite, and saw the fish. It's also stocked with large mouth
Week Long Tournament -- Testing a new tournament app — could use a few willing to test out new tournament app with me and donate $2
I'm moving Cast for a Cause to a platform called WeighBook for the 2027 season, and I'd rather find out what's broken now than in the middle of a real event next April.
2026 WARMUP TOURNAMENT - SIgn up any time.
Friday Sept 25 (Tomorrow) → Sunday Oct 4
$1 membership + $1 entry. Every dollar goes to The Jimmy Fund at Dana-Farber — Kindlewood Cares keeps none of it. The dollar exists so I can test whether the payment side actually works, which a free event wouldn't.
Fish anywhere you want, any day in that window. Boat, kayak, dock, bank — all the same. Five bass, 12" minimum or your state's minimum, artificial only, public water. Photo on a bump board with the tournament code visible, submit from your phone. No ramp, no weigh-in, no driving anywhere.
Two divisions, North and South. Rod sleeves from BardeRodz to the winner of each.
SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR: Sign up an spend $2 to test membership and tournament payments. That's the part I can't test by myself.
Fair warning — it's a test. If things go sideways, I'll draw winners at random from everyone who submitted a fish.
What I actually need is for you to fish it normally and tell me what annoyed you. Was paying awkward? Is logging a catch easy? Does the leaderboard make sense?
https://www.weighbook.com/tournaments/6ab3bf1b7878c1338e7e6864/registration
Picked this up at the pond at camp.
20.5” 5lb
Also had a 21.5” didn’t have scale that day
Sept 18, 2026, Don Pedro lake... out w my buddy Wayne who ks also teaching me bass fishinng. It was about mid day or so.. and we were hittinf the banks and i rememeber BLat talk abou the shadows off the bank... i dropped the Senko in the spot... and slow retrieve... it dropped depeer into the rocks... i saw a mouth drop behind it... i said ia that a fish?...... it was!!! Hooked my PB!! 4.34 lbs Spotted! Woohooo
