My Tourney

[aikenyounggun]

So my dad and i went fishin Saturday/yesterday .... it was our first Fishers of Men tournament and our first Team tournament (we always were trying to beat each other) .... we went up there friday for the meeting and one of the guys we knew let us stay with him at his friends cabin ..... we all knew it was going to rain and we werent looking forward to it .... well in the morning it was 44 degrees and was, take a quess, it was raining

so we went out and blasted out with all other 56 boat .... we left 47.... when we got to our spot i was already wet in some places ..... my rainsuit is just too small ... mainly the hood, so the water runs down my back..... but on the third cast my dad nailed a 2 pounder on a jig ..... so we thought we were gonna kill them ..... but 4 hours later with no more bites we were looking at each other thinking "should we leave" ... but we manned up and stayed .... we also had to tie up to some random boat dock and stood under their gazebo for 15 minutes ..... but finally my dad caught another keeper and 10 minutes later i nailed one .....

then we moved across he cut and my dad was like " man their is fish in thier but they aint bass or they are really small" ... he had already caught 2 small fih when we had caught those 2 keepers..... but as he was sayinf this i was retying and he caught one .... it was short..... then i nailed one and it was short but a little bigger .....then next cast i cught a little bigger one, still short.... this happended a couple more times .... then i caught the next couple keepers ..... i caught like 7 fish in 10 minutes.... super fun....

we didnt have nothin weight wise and had culled once so we went somewhere else .... my dad nailed another 2 so we culled .... then he caught another but it didnt help us so we culled it....

we went in happy and we had 8.20 ... so like 8 pounds 3 ounces ..... we think we won the youth adult thing .... we left hoping the rain wouldnt start again .... 16.4 was leading..... after that morning we were happy with what we haad.....

so the weather was a whole different thing.... for the first 4 hours the boat bilged every 5-10 minutes.... but it finally stopped and we started catchin those fish... it then stopped-drizzled for the rest of the day... i was saoking wet at the end of the day..... so if anyone has a good rainsuit and needs to give it away just pm me .....

p.s. my friend who i mentioned about fishing/observing the pros made an account ... he is swimbait kid 15.... ne nice

[Captmikestarrett]

Persistance pays off.. And when you commit to a pattern or place you work it hard. The fact is, most spots can hold the winning stringer you if take it apart piece by piece..

Also how many red bulls you drink a day?


I should talk.... english was my hardest second foriegn language to learn.

Capt Mike

[MrPhotographer06]

sounds like it was fun..

[Foyt20]

Glad you caught something. And get a new rain suit

[MrPhotographer06]

thats one investment i've got to make after i finish the boat..

and get a bilge pump

[aikenyounggun]

yeah mr mike is pickin on my typin ..... the keyboard on my dads laptop is smaller than im used to so i have some issues typin it right .... im good when we do comprehensive reading but i suck when we do grammar

[Captmikestarrett]

English is overated as a form of communication..

I think clicking and humming will soon become the new language.

Click hum click you know?

Oddly I understood every thought and thats what really matters in story telling..

Thanks for sharing..

Capt Mike

[3dkicker]

Sounds like you found a lot of small fish but still finished okay. Were they shallow? What was the water temps?

If Capt Mike really wanted to pick on you he'd ask you to do long division without a calculator.

[Jim80]

Originally Posted by Captmikestarrett

English is overated as a form of communication..

I think clicking and humming will soon become the new language.

Click hum click you know?

Oddly I understood every thought and thats what really matters in story telling..

Thanks for sharing..

Capt Mike

Mike you getting ready to live in the bush man ?


Jim

[Captmikestarrett]

Originally Posted by Jim80

Mike you getting ready to live in the bush man ?


Jim

Fishing season is only two weeks away for me.. I may go native by October with all the bookings I got.. Gonna have too quit that third job this year.. I ain't no lazy coconut..

Capt Mike

[carolina-rig-01]

way to grind it out. that is the toughest thing to do when conditions are bad and the bites are slow.

[MrPhotographer06]

Originally Posted by Captmikestarrett

English is overated as a form of communication..

I think clicking and humming will soon become the new language.

Click hum click you know?

Oddly I understood every thought and thats what really matters in story telling..

Thanks for sharing..

Capt Mike

swahili?

haha one of our coaches took that at USC.. lol

[aikenyounggun]

ummm yeah ask me to long division .... i beast at math .... we caught them in about 6-12 feet .... um temp was about 52 ... it dropped a little over the week though .... it kind of confused us .... the first fish my dad ccaught was the deepest and he caught it in deeper water .... it was also probably tied for our biggest fish .......

[aikenyounggun]

ummmm yeah it turned out we didnt win the adult/youth thing .... first place for the whole tournment was a kid and an adult ...... 16.6 or somethin around there won

[swimbaitkid]

Aiken younggun tell me if you can see my post, pm me

[BassAddict]

Way to stick with it! Y'all made a good showing and sounds like a decent day under the condidtions! Good job!

[aikenyounggun]

yeah thanks for all the post ..... we were happy b/c it was our first FOM .... next one is on Santee Cooper on March 23 or around there

[swimbaitkid]

Aikenyounggun needs to put down the shakyhead and you use big profile lures to win tournaments, he's only 4ft 3in and in 9th grade so he is got a lot of learning to do, just pay attention to that kid you fish with and you might get better

[aikenyounggun]

shut up swimbait .... maybe if you caught a fish once and a while you would win

[bamabassman]

hahaha, glad you got some time on the water with your father aiken. now you and da kid play nice ok? hahahahahhaa, i like to see compition between friends.

[aikenyounggun]

yeah he moved here and we became friends pretty quick b/c there aint many kid tourney fishers..... we smack talk a lot ..... but quess who is 2 out of 3 for beating the other in tourneys ???

not gonna spoil the fun but it aint swimbait kid

[swimbaitkid]

How many wins do you have ever, oh i think I heard something like 0, just playing i got a sweet vid, and a FlW magazine to give you tomorrow, my mom bought it at the book store when i already had it.

[MrPhotographer06]

well in my grade.. there are about 3 ppl that bass fish..

everyone else says they "fish" but they cork fish ..haha

10th grade has about 6

and i dont know of any in the 12th grade..


so when anthony and i join up with the local club.. we'll be the only two tourney fishers

[aikenyounggun]

yeah me and swimbait kid are in 9(me) and 10 (him) ... i know a lot of people that fish but tourney fishin is a whole new ballgame ... they also arent as addicted as me and him

[swimbaitkid]

Dude I just got johnny to curse, he told me to tell you to shut the F&*$ Up,