Throw another 4th place in the books for our club Wednesday nighters.  

Have you guys ever had this issue?  I have a 13 fishing concept A2, less than a year old, and the drag doesn’t work.  The reel is engaged but I can pull the line off with no effort.  

Happy National Hotdog Day everyone!

Day 2 was rufffff.  Couple weather delays due to severe thunderstorms and a big 0 in my Livewell.  Tuff long day.  Couldn’t get anything to bite.  Some people still caught them though.  Bag weights were cut in half versus yesterday.  Have to learn from this one and onto the next one…

Day 1 of tournament only 9.74lbs which included a 3.75lb smallie.  A lot to learn on this big new lake for me.  But was happy with my 5 fish.  Caught them in the weeds and docks on a wacky rig.  I couldn’t get the offshore smallmouth bite going which was the popular method to getting them.  

Does anyone have to deal with algae blooms on their fishery?  If so, how do you go about fishing through them? 

Wednesday Nighter 4th Place.  Just one of those Bobby Barrett perfect evenings. Moon, weather, conditions all came together.  Put together a 15.5lb bag.  Fished the very thick 9-13ft weeds with a Texas rig.  We also got to be boat #1 which has never happened before. 

If you guys couldn’t fish bass anymore, what species would you go for?

Do you guys have any other interests or hobbies other than fishing?

To follow up from Brian Barde post…This old beast was called “Meat & Toys”.  1978 Sylvan 19’. But had 2007 Mercury 115hp.  Bought it for $2,800 from a guy that was getting divorced.  He had 4 boats at the time… My buddy and I split the cost of the boat and bought it together.  We had just got out of college and were poor.  But we had new jobs, he was an engineer for Fisher Price Toys and I was in sales for a meat packing company.  So we came up with the boat name, “Meat & Toys”.  Solid  aluminum boat.  Survived some big water days on Lake Erie.  Wish I had some better pictures of it though.