🚨PB! Catching this giant in a tournament was a moment I will never forget. Caught a nice one early on a chatterbait, saw this guy stir up the water and finally got em with the SMH worm. Missed 1st place by 1 inch and I’m really wishing I had a better 3rd fish, but incredibly thankful for a great weekend of fishing.

16.74 for 3rd place today .

Post frontal conditions I tried to find The big large mouth but ended up finding some really nice spots so I stuck with that. My big fish was 4.38 and the shaky head was King. I got the rest of docs flipping a senko.

Made a change to a lighter weight and immediately started getting bites flipping lay downs.

With everything that has happened there’s so many things happening quickly. All we can do and should do is show love and empathy to all that’s involved. This is a part of life I’ve worked on. Empathy has never been a strong point for me so this is a opportunity to show up for myself and others by being emphatic.

Thanks to all for being patient with us.

Well got another one off a bed today. This one I managed to capture on video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SmPmTpCZOw8?si=dRHXedZTQuJ04rI5

Do any of my fellow Raleigh area anglers know if the what stage the spawn is in the surrounding lakes?

Hey SUFam,

We are putting together a video to encourage Flint Davis during this tough time. If you would like to send an encouraging message, please text a short video to me at 5103877434. Last day to turn it in is Sunday evening.

Thank you!

Any of you fished in the xtr130 yet ? I have some smaller horse power restricted lakes around me here in western north Carolina and I wanted to either get this boat or a jon boat with like a smaller 25hp or less to fish bream out of with me and my son . Im tall 6’4 280 lbs so I wanted to find something that would be comfortable. The bonus of the kayak is I could start fishing in kayak events too . I have a 20 ft bass boat currently but I can’t take it on the lakes I want to fish .