At the beginning of the year I made a resolution to make it outdoors more often this year. So far I have blown last year out of the water.
I have been in 3 Okie BFL tournaments and went fishing on 3 separate occasions on top of that. Not bad for just getting out of winter.
The first tournament was at Grand Lake. It was cold. COLD! The fish had lock jaw and I did not catch a fish along with hundreds of other anglers. They didn't even have enough co-anglers catch fish to fill all of the prize slots. So, you could say I finished last or 22nd. I'll go with 22nd, my highest finish in a Okie BFL so far.
The next tournament was on the Arkansas River. I caught 4 bass. Two were just barely short and I had 2 keepers for 5.7 pounds and around a 35th place finish. We were getting the bass dialed in again for the afternoon bite but started experiencing boat problems and needed to get a ride into weigh in so we could go retrieve the boat. I caught a 19 inch crappie that weighed more than either of my 3 pound bass.
The last tournament was this weekend. Mizike was texting me saying he caught a bass, then another, then another. I asked him where he was fishing and he said one of his farm ponds. I called him and told him I was coming through that area and asked if he had time to goof around for a while. He said he did so I stopped by on the way to the pairing meeting to fish for a couple of hours.
We had a lot of fun catching a bass on nearly every cast. I caught the bass slightly smaller than the bass pictured above, then we went to another pond where I immediately picked up this lunker.
In the tournament I did not fare so well. We were at Fort Gibson Lake. For the size of the lake it seemed to fish really small. Every good bass spot had 3 or more boats on it all day playing merry go round with the rest of the spots. I managed to pick up 1 keeper in a pretty common community hole that seemed like it would continue to reload all day. My boater picked up 2 keepers there. We moved thinking that an afternoon bite would pick up in another area.
Unfortunately for us, the afternoon bite didn't happen. We ran to quite a few different areas but only picked up some short fish and a catfish that I thought was my getting into the money bass.
I caught 5 bass on 5 different lures. I couldn't figure out any specific pattern other than they were biting extremely light on everything I caught them on besides the first fish I had caught on a swimbait.
I weighed in 1 bass for 3-2 pounds which put me in 74th place out of 143 boats. I am currently in 52nd in points for the year. I will need to do well in the next 2 tournaments in order to make it to regionals. The competition is fierce.
I have been in 3 Okie BFL tournaments and went fishing on 3 separate occasions on top of that. Not bad for just getting out of winter.
The first tournament was at Grand Lake. It was cold. COLD! The fish had lock jaw and I did not catch a fish along with hundreds of other anglers. They didn't even have enough co-anglers catch fish to fill all of the prize slots. So, you could say I finished last or 22nd. I'll go with 22nd, my highest finish in a Okie BFL so far.
The next tournament was on the Arkansas River. I caught 4 bass. Two were just barely short and I had 2 keepers for 5.7 pounds and around a 35th place finish. We were getting the bass dialed in again for the afternoon bite but started experiencing boat problems and needed to get a ride into weigh in so we could go retrieve the boat. I caught a 19 inch crappie that weighed more than either of my 3 pound bass.
The last tournament was this weekend. Mizike was texting me saying he caught a bass, then another, then another. I asked him where he was fishing and he said one of his farm ponds. I called him and told him I was coming through that area and asked if he had time to goof around for a while. He said he did so I stopped by on the way to the pairing meeting to fish for a couple of hours.
We had a lot of fun catching a bass on nearly every cast. I caught the bass slightly smaller than the bass pictured above, then we went to another pond where I immediately picked up this lunker.
In the tournament I did not fare so well. We were at Fort Gibson Lake. For the size of the lake it seemed to fish really small. Every good bass spot had 3 or more boats on it all day playing merry go round with the rest of the spots. I managed to pick up 1 keeper in a pretty common community hole that seemed like it would continue to reload all day. My boater picked up 2 keepers there. We moved thinking that an afternoon bite would pick up in another area.
Unfortunately for us, the afternoon bite didn't happen. We ran to quite a few different areas but only picked up some short fish and a catfish that I thought was my getting into the money bass.
I caught 5 bass on 5 different lures. I couldn't figure out any specific pattern other than they were biting extremely light on everything I caught them on besides the first fish I had caught on a swimbait.
I weighed in 1 bass for 3-2 pounds which put me in 74th place out of 143 boats. I am currently in 52nd in points for the year. I will need to do well in the next 2 tournaments in order to make it to regionals. The competition is fierce.
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