Pretty excited today, fishing wasn't great but cought my first umbrella rig fish!! Short story, I don't normally do this but ima going to PLUG SOME STUFF! I was trying to figure out how to use the 7'8" Rake series rod I received from last years retreat. I didn't know what to do with it. Now I do! No one throws an A rig up here that I've seen. Probably cause of the 3 hook rules. Watched the Greg and O live awhile back Brian did and got an idea. Greg throws that rig alot in his videos and brought up the dark horse mini max rig he uses and they got a 3 hook version! Done deal! That rod can cast that thing a mile and its sturdy but not to stiff! It's got the right amount of... eeaahh to it, 😆

Plug and joking aside, I believe there were some more people that won or received some of those specific rods last year and if you don't know what to do with it and live where you can use these rigs, this is one way to use it!

Got in a bit of pre fishing today for a local tornament coming up on the 9th. 1st time this year in my home lake. Cought some clunkers. Water temp was 58°F. I think its getting about that time!! The three bass i cought are close to the bank about 1 to 2 ft of water. Snagged a carp, that was fun, but then a mess, wrapped around my trolling motor and wasted about 10 min of my life, lol... 🤦