Summer is almost over here, so have to take advantage of every nice day.

Follow up from Mark Jonas and I fishing the team tournament on the Madison Chain. The day for us didn’t go as we hoped, but still had fun and a good learning experience. Had a good number of bites in the AM on a Crankbait, Chatter, and Buzzbait. But once the severe thunderstorm rolled in our bite died. In hindsight after the storm I think we tired to force the shallow (10ft or less) bite too much. Even with finding unblown out water. The field did well fishing deep weed edge 15-20ft and it was cool MLF Pro Steve Lopez was there fishing against us. Takeaway from this is, don’t get stuck in a technique because it worked in practice or for part of the day. Adapt with the fish. Already looking forward to next years team tournament!

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.

Trip recap to Lake of the Woods Canada…had such a blast, caught so many fish and didn’t have cell service so I forgot to take more pictures. Whoops. Caught big old Chomp Chomp on the 2nd day on a spinning rod while Walleye fishing. 38” and 13.02lbs. The rest of the trip was filled with non-stop walleye and smallmouth. We fried up the keepers almost every night. Smallmouth were spitting up bright orange pieces of crawfish in the Livewell. Matched it up with a Ned. I feel like if you concentrated on nothing but smallies for an entire week up there you could catch 1,000 smallies in a week. While Perch fishing a different pike ate the perch while reeling him in, broke the rod but I still got them in for a picture.

Headed up to Lake of the Woods Ontario tomorrow. Can’t wait to post some pictures.

Thanks Doc Trez for getting these jerkbaits done just in time before my trip to Canada.

Got to take my nephews fishing for their first time ever. Hit up the local Yahara River and caught a bunch of panfish. Kept it simple with a pink jig. Had a great time!

Beautiful evening for a little post spawn dock fishing

On Sunday fished our club tournment at Green Lake in Wisconsin, 7,500 acre lake. With life going on didn’t have much time to prep or breakdown the lake. But I did fish it once before in 2024. So I just fished the way I like to fish and my goal was to beat my weight in 2024 of 9.74lbs. Ended up in 5th w/ 10.99lbs. All the weights were pretty tight. Winning bag was 16lbs, but he had a 6.5lb kicker. 2nd place was 12.5lb bag. Glad I got to spend a beautiful day on the water. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Does anyone have any experience/feedback on the Bubba Smart Scale or the new Lite version? My Rapala scale bite the dust and need a new one.