It was hot, hot, hot. Well the temperatures, not the fishing.
We had 34 anglers show up. This was our largest Tuesday event yet. We were able to get registrations and the Captain's meeting in before the projected time to launch (5:15). Thank you everyone for being prepared and well organized, we the hosts are getting better and appreciate your patience.
We had several new guys who had never fished with us, and some that had fished with us last year, but not this year. We had 9 new guys that hadn't fished with us yet this year show up. One guy is brand new to Nashville, and another was on business from Louisiana and wanted to fish with the very well known and respected KBFTN guys and gals.
I myself fished a long point, the point and both sides of it. Throwing cranks from 6' to 20' deep, and Carolina rigged soft plastics. I was marking brush and fish. I caught several blue gill on cranks, and a few drum. I moved off the point to a drop in 14-16' of water and worked the cranks, and C-rigs again, by this time the white bass were blitzing. I pulled out a small blade bait and hooked into a big fish. It fought for a few seconds and then just came to a halt on the bottom. I winched him to the top coming to find a 26"+ flathead at the end of my line. Hey Kayak War Points I thought to myself. I caught no black bass.
1st and 2nd place have not fished this lake before.
We are starting to see some great anglers to the area
Results Fish 1 Fish 2 Total Paid
Scott Harper 17.0 18.75 (BIG FISHSMALLMOUTH) 35.75" $325
Casey Brunning 18.25 16.0 34.25" $95
Terry Bowman 13.0 13.0 26.0" $40
Michael Ernst 11.25 14.25 25.5" $30
Jonathan Bartlett 12.75 9.25 22.0" $25
A big thanks to Alphahawk and Leland Lures for the Trout Slayer packs. We will think of creative ways to give these out at future events.
Afterward several of us went to eat, and had a great time until they closed down.
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