go-bassn
November 6th, 2003, 02:07 AM
It's been a tough month guys, only now am I getting relaxed once again. I
just came off of 4 straight weeks of 12-hour days. My dad had his achilles
tendon operated on about 2 months ago. He had to wear a cast on his leg &
foot for a whole month, at some point during which he developed a nasty
infection inside it that was allowed to permeate for some time before being
discovered. Anyway about 4 weeks ago he had the infection cleaned out & a
skin graft was done, hence the cause for my work-marathon. He's doing much
better now despite loosing a chunk of his upper heel. I'd worked every day
since getting back from New York (Oct 5) until this past Sunday.
Of course I went fishing. The weather was springlike, sunny & in the 70's.
A tournament was going on at the lake when I got there, but oh well. I
caught about 15 keepers, many over 3 pounds on my favorite lure this time of
year, a ratl-trap. Just randomly (slow) crankin every flat I could find,
the fish weren't relating to any cover at all. It was fun.
I saw a friend that was in the tournament, he was flipping pads with little
success. I told him to get away from the pads & throw the trap. He ended
up winning the 4-fish limit tourney with 10 & change. My best 4 was 14 or
so I figured, just eyeballing em lol. OK, 12 at least ;-) Second place was
3 pounds.
The reason I mention this relates to RichZ's Indian Summer post. While I
caught 16 keepers, what I actually found were 3 seperate balls of fish. Not
long after launch I found the first & got 6 on 6 casts. About an hour later
I found another & got 6 more in 7 or 8 casts. Later I got 4 on 4 casts.
The point is that fall is the time of year that bass really bunch up - it's
a feast or famine situation. The Trap works good for me because I can cover
alot of water with it, and it draws fish from great distances. When they're
on the Trap they really attack it. That's because there's a bunch of fish
together & they're competing for the bait.
If I hadn't found those 3 pods of fish I would have been skunked.
Anyway., I fish my first tourney since NY this weekend. It's gonna be
freezing & windy. I should be ready after NY. I've also returned to my
OF.com journal, and hope to add the rest of my trip to it in the near
future.
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=154
Oh, If you never checked out my B.A.S.S. patches I've added the collection
to a patch-page on my site too.
http://www.warrenwolk.com/patchpage.htm
Anyway, it's great to have time to be back on here, I hope eeveryone's doing
great!
Warren
--
http://www.fishingworld.com/MesaTackleSupply/
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com http://www.secretweaponlures.com
http://warrenwolk.com/ http://www.tri-statebassmasters.com/
just came off of 4 straight weeks of 12-hour days. My dad had his achilles
tendon operated on about 2 months ago. He had to wear a cast on his leg &
foot for a whole month, at some point during which he developed a nasty
infection inside it that was allowed to permeate for some time before being
discovered. Anyway about 4 weeks ago he had the infection cleaned out & a
skin graft was done, hence the cause for my work-marathon. He's doing much
better now despite loosing a chunk of his upper heel. I'd worked every day
since getting back from New York (Oct 5) until this past Sunday.
Of course I went fishing. The weather was springlike, sunny & in the 70's.
A tournament was going on at the lake when I got there, but oh well. I
caught about 15 keepers, many over 3 pounds on my favorite lure this time of
year, a ratl-trap. Just randomly (slow) crankin every flat I could find,
the fish weren't relating to any cover at all. It was fun.
I saw a friend that was in the tournament, he was flipping pads with little
success. I told him to get away from the pads & throw the trap. He ended
up winning the 4-fish limit tourney with 10 & change. My best 4 was 14 or
so I figured, just eyeballing em lol. OK, 12 at least ;-) Second place was
3 pounds.
The reason I mention this relates to RichZ's Indian Summer post. While I
caught 16 keepers, what I actually found were 3 seperate balls of fish. Not
long after launch I found the first & got 6 on 6 casts. About an hour later
I found another & got 6 more in 7 or 8 casts. Later I got 4 on 4 casts.
The point is that fall is the time of year that bass really bunch up - it's
a feast or famine situation. The Trap works good for me because I can cover
alot of water with it, and it draws fish from great distances. When they're
on the Trap they really attack it. That's because there's a bunch of fish
together & they're competing for the bait.
If I hadn't found those 3 pods of fish I would have been skunked.
Anyway., I fish my first tourney since NY this weekend. It's gonna be
freezing & windy. I should be ready after NY. I've also returned to my
OF.com journal, and hope to add the rest of my trip to it in the near
future.
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=154
Oh, If you never checked out my B.A.S.S. patches I've added the collection
to a patch-page on my site too.
http://www.warrenwolk.com/patchpage.htm
Anyway, it's great to have time to be back on here, I hope eeveryone's doing
great!
Warren
--
http://www.fishingworld.com/MesaTackleSupply/
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com http://www.secretweaponlures.com
http://warrenwolk.com/ http://www.tri-statebassmasters.com/