Tim Dodson

Clayton, NC, United States

Born and raised a Florida boy, residing in NC. Lover of the outdoors, fishing, hunting. #dodsquadadventures
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20 Oct 18:41

Blake what a GREAT story and encouragement!

However now I feel like I need to add a little color to help give context to my question.  I'll try to paint with broad strokes. 😉

First apologies to BLat and SUF community for stepping outside the lines of fishing specifics.

I also have been busy helping raising 4 daughters for the last 30 years with personal interest taking a WAY back seat to responsibilities at hand.  We finally got them all graduate out of college and out of the house this last couple of years and as you can imagine those personal interests are still there. Lucky for me my wife is an amazing, beautiful person and is very support of my goals.

The true heart of my original question is "Am I simply too old to start down this path?" 

Thank you all for the positive feedback.

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19 Oct 17:57

Did a little better today almost caught a limit but most where shorts, flippin docs and throwing a jerk bait in the creeks. I definitely could hear sound bites from SUF schools in depths playing out in my head while on the water. 
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19 Oct 09:03

Does anyone live in the greater Raleigh area? I’m looking someone to fish with.
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18 Oct 20:33

It was tough today. Very windy and muddy water. So, I chose to try pushing up in some creeks.  I caught 1 dink on some flooded timber in about 6 feet of water and miss a bite.  With the muddy water it was tough to locate bait. I tried looking out in the main lake but no luck. 
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18 Oct 20:26

Dang Brian.  You're slaying em.

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18 Oct 11:37

Thank you for that. Awesome encouragement.

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18 Oct 09:13

I have noticed that quite a few successful tournament anglers have stories about fishing local tournaments early in their journey to the higher levels of tournaments.  I never fished a tournament on any level until this year.  I did do a lot of fishing with various family and friends growing up, but honestly a small percentage of which was bass fishing.

So, my question is this. 

Am I at a disadvantage in my pursuit to be competitive at the highest levels of bass fishing?  At my age I feel like I don't have the time to slowly build the expertise.
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17 Oct 22:22

LMAO,

 Dude, I LOVE your honesty.

 To be honest it pique my interest because I do NOT enjoy spinning reals. In my defense I'm trying to adapt, but.....

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17 Oct 22:18

More often than not, I trim my skirts to the hook.  Recently I've been turning my trailer vertical to present more like bait fish.  Ironically still using crawfish type trailers.

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17 Oct 22:15

I am interested to understand how seasonal changes impact how we fish jigs.  Jigs are in my top 3 favorite baits to use. Recently I put a skirt on a swim bait head with a grub trailer and caught a largies dragging across pads.

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