SEVEN POUND SMALLMOUTH...

....that's no reason???

Warren

"Charles Summers" wrote in message
...
You know... this was suppose to be the year that I started my exploration
of
the Cumberland River system. Then again, my fishing time has been severely
limited, but I gotten to see parts of the USA that I thought I'd never
see.
Well, Las Vegas and Lake Mead anyway. It's just too bad that I didn't get
to
fish it.

But Okeechobee! WOW what a lake!!!

I've had fun, fishing in Dale Hollow, Center Hill, Okeechobee, Old
Hickory,
Percy Priest, and Lake Barkley this year. Next year, I've got to get to
Pickwick, Nickajack, Tims Ford, Kentucky Lake, Chickamauga, Douglas,
Reelfoot, Watts Bar, Woods, Norris, Cherokee, and Boone Lake. With all of
these lake here in Tennessee... there's really no reason to risk losing
your
life in the Cumberland though!


"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
Charles... Now is the time to explore the rivers and small waters that
the
pleasure boaters don't care for. The last holiday weekend I went out I
was
flipping the current int he river until the waves just got too bad to
handle
from all the nuts on the river. I headed back into one of the back
channels
and never saw another boat the rest of the day. Most of the other
fisherman
didn't go out that weekend, and the jet skis and wake boarders can't
really
do anything once you get back in there.

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"Charles B. Summers" wrote in message
.. .
Thankfully, around here most of the pleasure boaters and jet-skis seem
to
end their season after Labor Day. There's that one day that everyone
is
off
work that can be pure hell on a fisherman, but after that... the lake
slowly
begins to become all mine.

Anyway, I took tonight to make my last round before Labor Day. I was
in
the
water around 6pm and returned home by 10:30pm. I gotta say once
again...
that Mega-Strike is some pretty awesome stuff! I caught three or four
fish
on a spinnerbait, three more on a crankbait that Joe left in the cup
holder
of my boat (Thanks Joe), then as the sun was settling down I tied on a
Powerworm and mounted the blacklights on the rail.

There's a solitary laydown near one of the bluffs that I fish. Just
one.
Nine times out of ten I can find a fish there, and tonight was no
different.
Usually you get one shot at it, then you might as well use dynamite if
you
missed it. I felt the fish pick up the bait and swim under the log, so
I
laid into it. The line went slack, but I was missing my hook, bead,
and
weight. I picked up another rod with a jig tied on, but I knew it was
a
worthless cause.

I tied on another worm and fish a small section of the wall, all the
while
thinking of that lost fish. I did manage to pick a few off, but
finally
decided to troll back to the laydown for one more chance. That's when
I
remembered the Mega-Strike. I globbed some of that stuff on my bait
and
pitched it into the branches and counted to five. I lifted the tip of
the
rod and felt my fish! This time, he didn't get away. I set the hook
and
within a few minutes, I was reaching over the port side and lipping
the
bass
over the rail. She weighed 4lbs and some odd ounces.

That was the biggest fish of the night, but in the four short hours
that
I
spent on the lake, I managed three more on the Powerworm, and four
more
on
our new Moonlight Snack spinnerbait. If I were fishing a tournament, I
probably would have weighed in around 11lbs. Not bad for Percy
Priest...
but
it kinda makes me sad that I missed our club tournament the weekend
before.

Hope y'all did well this weekend. I'll post some of my self portraits
as
soon as I find my card reader.