jad2t
05-19-2014, 07:53 AM
Well, maybe not really but that's what it was like for me this weekend.
I fished the CBY tournament at Chickamauga Saturday and the post cold front, rainy weather made for some tough fishing. Lots of skunks and one fish totals. With about 30 minutes left I finally got one on a spinnerbait. It was cool to see it dart out of the grass after it. Only 15.25" though. The guys who fish Chick a lot caught several fish and had some impressive totals.
Yesterday I drug my kayak through some disgusting muck and sludge to get it into a local pond in Franklin that I discovered. It took a while to figure out what was going to work in there as the fish were very skiddish and scared of larger noisy baits so frogs, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits were all ineffective. I pulled out the finesse worms and got to work. 3 largest bass were 16.5", 17.75", and then the big girl at 20.5"!!
I let out a Mike Iaconalli type yell when I got her in the net. The two biggest fish bumped me into the 14th out of over 200 anglers in the Kayak For A Cure tournament. I need another 20 incher out of that pond before it ends so I can solidify a top 10 finish.
I used SUMKINA Bait Company finesse worms, a company by a good friend of our family based out of Georgia. I hope to keep using his baits with success and help him spread his name around Tennessee.
I fished the CBY tournament at Chickamauga Saturday and the post cold front, rainy weather made for some tough fishing. Lots of skunks and one fish totals. With about 30 minutes left I finally got one on a spinnerbait. It was cool to see it dart out of the grass after it. Only 15.25" though. The guys who fish Chick a lot caught several fish and had some impressive totals.
Yesterday I drug my kayak through some disgusting muck and sludge to get it into a local pond in Franklin that I discovered. It took a while to figure out what was going to work in there as the fish were very skiddish and scared of larger noisy baits so frogs, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits were all ineffective. I pulled out the finesse worms and got to work. 3 largest bass were 16.5", 17.75", and then the big girl at 20.5"!!
I let out a Mike Iaconalli type yell when I got her in the net. The two biggest fish bumped me into the 14th out of over 200 anglers in the Kayak For A Cure tournament. I need another 20 incher out of that pond before it ends so I can solidify a top 10 finish.
I used SUMKINA Bait Company finesse worms, a company by a good friend of our family based out of Georgia. I hope to keep using his baits with success and help him spread his name around Tennessee.