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Old 06-07-09, 12:19 AM   #1
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Unhappy Others were cullin while I was cursin!!

I got a chance to fish in a local tourney this morning. Mostly a bragging rights tourney since the pay out was low.
I had no issue catching fish, heck I brought 11 into the boat in the first two hours. Unfortunately, every darn one of them was between 12-14 1/2 inches. With a size limit of 15", this went from humorous to darn right frustrating. By the end of the day, all I could do was laugh.
It did not matter what I threw (topwater, plastics, cranks, spinnerbaits, jigs, and even swimbaits), I could get get a bite, but I did not catch a single fish that I could weigh in.
By the noon check in, I had boated 26 non quallifying fish. The largest fell 1/8th short of being legal.
Based off of all of the other fish being weighed in, this was issolated to me.
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Old 06-07-09, 01:42 AM   #2
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man i have had days like that, way too often. you know people will say that when this happens you need to go to a bigger bait to get bigger bites, or you should do this or you should do that. the only thing that i have ever found that will help sometimes is moving out to the next break line in depth. if you were fishing in say 8 feet of water and there is a little drop to 10 feet or so then i would fish that. if for sure doesn't help all the time but it has been the most consistant fix when i have this problem, but most of the time i think it is just fishing for ya.

at least you got to go fishing, i was sweating my guts out at work running an extruder that was around 400 degrees.
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Old 06-07-09, 04:54 AM   #3
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Did you fish the same structure pattern the whole day? Sometimes it seems that you try everything in your box when a simple change of location, water depth, or bottom structure will do wonders. Just a thought
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Old 06-07-09, 07:36 AM   #4
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that has to suck
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Old 06-07-09, 07:40 AM   #5
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Wow man. that's gotta suck! I but you had fun though!
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Old 06-07-09, 11:15 AM   #6
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soooo sory cass. went just this morning with lisa. didn't get so much as a nibble. so pardon me if i don't feel too bad for ya, hahahaha. for real, sorry you didn't get any keepers.
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Old 06-07-09, 12:59 PM   #7
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I did vary locations, depth, and structure. My partner had three strong keepers from the same boat, so I just think it wasn't my day.
I sure didn't mean to sound like I was looking for sympathy. Heck, I was on water doing what I love. If the worse thing I have to say about June is that the fish were all small, then I don't deserve to fish.
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Old 06-07-09, 03:20 PM   #8
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it wasn't my day either cass. only went for about 4 hours though. late start, early finish too. blue bird skies, light wind, muddy water. a little too hot for lisa. so we went in.
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Old 06-07-09, 05:12 PM   #9
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26 non qualifiers? At least you weren't bored
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I sure didn't mean to sound like I was looking for sympathy. Heck, I was on water doing what I love. If the worse thing I have to say about June is that the fish were all small, then I don't deserve to fish.
I think this may be the best quote I have ever heard. Man you are a true fisherman at heart. I hope everyone here feels the same way, I know I DO .
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Old 06-11-09, 06:19 PM   #11
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yeah the FOM tournament on Murray it seemed like my dad and i were jsut weeding out the small ones....first it was raining and cold, so it was miserable(or as miserable as fishin can get)and the first cast my dad nailed a 2lber on a jig, then we caught like 6 short fish over two hours... then we started fishin this other place and it was like every cast i was catchin a fish..... i was catchin so fast my dad was measurin them for some reason.... the kept gettin bigger and bigger until i filled our limit.... caught like 10 fish and 4 were keepers... so it wasnt that bad but i know how it feels
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Old 06-11-09, 06:20 PM   #12
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no the worse is when you have 4 fish and you catch like 5 short fish, 3 that are 1/8 of an inch off..... did that last tourney.... ughhhh
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