Hmmmm.... Thats tough. I had two small tournament trips were the kid
outfished me. http://tinyurl.com/5cvkq I have to say I enjoyed those very
much, and there a couple canal banking episodes where he learned some
techniques that produced some nice fish. http://tinyurl.com/6yobs

My personal best trip though was a spin off of a trip I took with another
angler. I fished a tournament out of the back of the boat with Roy Price
early in the summer. Roy died about a month ago, God rest his soul.
Anyway, we fished a channel where he had some specific spots in mind. He
did tie into one really nice bass in one of those spots, but he was blowing
by spots at speed that I would normally take the time to fish. I asked him
if he minded me coming back and fishing that area a little differently some
other time. He shrugged.

I went back to that area with Hammer in an ABA tournament. The first place
we stopped was a where a couple channels crossed. I let the current cary my
bait across in front of a point. It was tough to keep the boatin position,
but rather than keep going I told Hammer I just knew there had to be a good
fish under the bruch on that point. I took three tries to get my bait in
exactly the spot I wanted. As it drifted up under the overhanging brush it
took off and I caught a 3.5 LM. The next place I called produced a small
fish. I told Hammer out loud that I didn't believe that was the only fish
in that spot. I worked around to a pocket in the tree, and nailed a 3.8 LM.
As we headed down through one of the channels I had particular types of
spots in mind, and I caught a fish out of almost every one of them. I was
really starting to figure it out that day. At one point I turned to Hamer
and said, "I think I have this figured out today, in those deep pockets with
lots of shadows we are catchign the bigger fish, and in those tiny little
indents in the brush line we are catch in the smaller fish," I was co cocky
I punctuated my point by indicating a spot on a bank were drifitn past and I
said, "See that spot. I bet I can throw in there and catcha small fish." I
tossed in and nailed a 12 incher immediatley. We both laughed out loud.

When we got way back in one area there was a huge overhanging tree with lots
of branches hanging in the water. I caught a small fish off one edge, and I
said, "I bet there are two or three fish hanging in this tree. I tossed ina
couple feet around the tree, and caught a little bit bigger one, and then
when I tossed in on the downstream side of the tree I caught another one.
The last one ran about 3.5.

I was high on life that day. In one section Iw as lettig the current sweep
the boat along at a pretty good clip and I was justtossing into the best
looking spots and skipping the marginal looking spots. I let the boat get
me past a spot before I hit it. Instead of hitting the trolling motor and
and wasting a lot of time repositioning the boat I pointed at the spot and
told Hammer to make sure to get his bait in there. He nailed a 4.0.

We weighed in 16.5 lbs that day for our top five, and we culled smaller fish
all day. It was the only day I had all year like that where I just knew
where the fish were and how to catch them. I called every decent fish we
put in the boat that day.

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...best bass trip of 2004.

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