Dang-It! Humility Check!

I won a couple or three tournaments and started to feel a little bit of self
confidence, and those pesky fish slapped me down hard.

Geez. We brought three fish to the scale yesterday. In order to even do
that I had to fall back on one of my beginners tricks dead sticking wacky
senkos. Ouch. Oh, well. I guess it would look bad if I won my own series
two years in a row. LOL. I guess that gives Willhide back a couple of those
points I gained on him last month.

Have to be fair to ourselves. We did catch fish every place I went. If we
could have stapled them together to make them long enough we might have done
ok. LOL. Topwater... Crankbaits... Flipping... Spinnerbaits... Senkos...
I caught tons of short fish. Finally about a half hour before weigh in we
found some aggressively active fish, but didn't have enough time left to
determine if it would have worked into a pattern or not. My last keeper
came as a chaser on a shorter fish I caught. I could see it trying to steal
the bait away from the first fish. I threw back to the same holding spot
and caught it. A third cast to the same spot produced another strike from a
small fish I saw and was able to shake off. Maybe it was just the start of
the afternoon bite or maybe we had finally found the right conditions for
some active fish. I'm taking an Az Basszoner out Wednesday morning so I'll
find out then I guess.

P.S. If you ever fish with me and I tell you need to stand right up next to
me working an area I mean it. Ask Bob Weist about the new scar on his
scalp. Fortunately I felt the tug and released my thumb before driving the
hook past the barb into his head. In close quarters working a channel you
have to fish that way or the guy in the back of the boat gets to throw at
fish who have been propwashed by the TM. Its better for both of you to fish
out in front of the boat. Usually I tell guys that fish those conditions
with me to stand as close to right next to me as they can so I don't get
them on the back cast, and if they need to step back then they should let me
know where they are going and then go all the way to the back deck. It was
really probably my fault since I don't recall telling Bob the second part of
that. I just told him to stand next to me so we could both fish without
hooking each other. I still haven't got the backlash out of that reel.
Maybe this afternoon I'll go after it with some scissors.


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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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