Something bouta spinnerbait, especially with the brown ones. Grown one. 👀💪🏽#friYAY#

Hey y’all! We’re at the at the retreat. There’s no round table tonight because we’re struggling with service. Sorry SUF FAM!

We’ll be out tomorrow trying to apply what we’ve learned here! Wish us luck!

A good summer bass this weekend with Destiny Siguenza with temps on my units showing 86-90 between the Lowrance and Garmin just know it was HOT. Skipping some floating docks in 28-30ft of water was the ticket. They were also on the ladder looking things. Lots of shade. The old Neko rig did the job yesterday.

One other cool thing yesterday was watching them have big bait balls corralled into a pocket and watching them bust up the schools with FFS. There were schools of shad absolutely everywhere in this particular pocket. I did catch one throwing into the chaos too. Did anyone else bear the the heat this weekend and get out?

Fished my first national level kayak tournament on Champlain weekend before last. It was a really dope experience. A larger field than I’ve been up against with some of the best competition around. Managed a 95th out of 158. Happy with that. One thing I did learn personally is how deadly FFS can be. I’ve used it on others peoples boats, but in your own hands In your control it was a different ball game. I caught my limit of 5 and all of them but one I caught using the tech. Whether it was seeing them or targeting submerged cover I benefited from it. Practice was horrendous days prior & this my first time with it on the kayak. All in all I’m really proud of myself getting out there and conquering some fears and accomplishing some growth.

Check your livewell!

Evidence of what they are eating! 8,786 crawfish spit up in Brian Latimer livewell at the ST Lawrence this past weekend. Great way to stay on top of forage they prefer. Little tiny 🦞.

Question for everybody:

Have you ever seen this before? Anything odd you’ve ever seen in your livewell?

For those who asked in the roundtable, I did a podcast on men’s mental health and a bit of my journey through life. A podcast about the angler behind the fishing. Have a great day.

Thanks for listening if you can 🙏🏽

https://youtu.be/RjTAGtrtQiA

YouTube video link

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4wDfFmJKxiEhRueDj4q3Hd?si=hrOAvTfaQDGneeDiamPFEQ

Spotify

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-angler-s2e13-w-christopher-waters/id1693032466?i=1000713383946

Apple Podcasts

Installing foot steering on Destiny kayak today. Originally controlled the motor attached to the rudder control. Today we’re going to drill some holes in this coosa lol

Thought I’d throw it out there. Last night in the round table I mentioned this. Some people asked what we use. This is a great travel rod on a budget. Destiny Siguenza and myself have been using this for several years. Caught smallies in Colorado to big buckets in Texas. Not much to it, but it gets the job done. This paired A 2500 spinning reel along side a small box of tackle with finesse swimbaits, jerkbaits, wacky rig stuff maybe some poppers, walking baits and of course some Ned rig and shakey head stuff; you can really get a lot done when you’re traveling or even keeping it in your car. If you’re on a business trip or something and have some ponds by your hotel etc it’s great way to explore some new water. Tight lines fam 🎣

What’s on everyone’s fishing menu this weekend?

Going any place new?

Myself and Destiny Siguenza are headed to Dale Hollow in the yaks for the first time.

Has anyone fished there before?

45 degree water on the Great Lakes, Erie specifically . Blasted em. How do you think we caught them? Destiny Siguenza was on fire!