2003 Highlights

"alwaysfishking" wrote Ok the year is winding down and I've been thinking
about the year is
perspective and fishing achievements/accomplishments. What are some of
your
memorable fishing experiences this past year, good, bad indifferent. Win a
tourney? Teach a kid to fish? Get out with the old man/lady? Catch a fish
on
a crankbait for the first time? Lunker? Personal bests? Let em rip. I'll
post mine later.

Randy-

I did get my new personal best this year. A 7 pound 10 ounce largemouth,
back in April, from the bank on a small private lake here in Cabot AR. Got
it on a bleeding shad secret weapon spinnerbait. It's on the braggin board
on the SWL's web site.

And this fall My sons Boy Scout troop & I (I'm an assitant Scoutmaster) went
to the Cub family weekend and I and some of the scouts helped over 100 cub
scouts earn their fishing belt loop. To earn it, they had to revue the state
regulations, bait their own hook, and attempt to catch a fish. You should
have seen some of them with their first time handling a night crawler. :-)
Had 16 zebco 33's out with cub scouts casting them all over the place. A lot
of them caught their very first fish there that weekend. One caught a 2 &
1/2 pound channel cat. Hopefully some of them will catch the bug and will
take up fishing. Already said I'd do it again next spring. It was a lot of
fun.

Larry

"alwaysfishking" wrote Ok the year is winding down and I've been thinking
about the year is
perspective and fishing achievements/accomplishments. What are some of
your
memorable fishing experiences this past year, good, bad indifferent. Win a
tourney? Teach a kid to fish? Get out with the old man/lady? Catch a fish
on
a crankbait for the first time? Lunker? Personal bests? Let em rip. I'll
post mine later.

Randy-

I did get my new personal best this year. A 7 pound 10 ounce largemouth,
back in April, from the bank on a small private lake here in Cabot AR. Got
it on a bleeding shad secret weapon spinnerbait. It's on the braggin board
on the SWL's web site.

And this fall My sons Boy Scout troop & I (I'm an assitant Scoutmaster) went
to the Cub family weekend and I and some of the scouts helped over 100 cub
scouts earn their fishing belt loop. To earn it, they had to revue the state
regulations, bait their own hook, and attempt to catch a fish. You should
have seen some of them with their first time handling a night crawler. :-)
Had 16 zebco 33's out with cub scouts casting them all over the place. A lot
of them caught their very first fish there that weekend. One caught a 2 &
1/2 pound channel cat. Hopefully some of them will catch the bug and will
take up fishing. Already said I'd do it again next spring. It was a lot of
fun.

Larry

That's a fun thread, here goes:

1) Seeing all you sick b-stards down in TN this spring, definately the
highlight of my season!

2) Fishing the BASS Northern Opens - I didn't win a nickle but I gained a
fortune in experience, new techniques & (most of all) new friends.

3) Weighed in my two largest limits (5 fish) of smallmouth in tournaments -
19-9 in a club event at Merrill Creek NJ & 18-13 at the Federation
Divisional on Lake Champlain. Boy were they fun days!

Looking forward to a long winter of BSing & Sh-tshooting with you guys here
on ROFB!

Warren


"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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Ok the year is winding down and I've been thinking about the year is
perspective and fishing achievements/accomplishments. What are some of
your
memorable fishing experiences this past year, good, bad indifferent. Win a
tourney? Teach a kid to fish? Get out with the old man/lady? Catch a fish
on
a crankbait for the first time? Lunker? Personal bests? Let em rip. I'll
post mine later.

Randy-

Charity Pro/Am tournament with the FLW Jacob's Cup contenders at Lake
Chesdin in September. It really was a hoot rubbing (and bending) elbows with
those guys. Forty eight people most of us dream about fishing with/against.
said Huck

Great thread! Thanks Randy.

Very good bass year for me. At least compared to the one before.
In fact this was my first serious bass-fishing year. Sure, I've tried
before, but not so systematically.

Many good thing happened:

-I got some quality equipment (St.Croix Avid/Curado),
I guess not bad for a beginning.
-My daughter (7) landed her first bass!
-Caught some nice SM in the river (nothing more than 3#, but that's OK)
-Caught bass on almost every type of lure (still no luck with the lipless
crankbaits though, but the year is not officially over so I keep trying)
-Subscribing to this NG (This is the best thing!)

And now the not so good things:

-No trip longer than 3 hours ...
-No fishing from a boat.
-And I didn't have a chance to attend any of the ROFB gatherings.
(and this is the worst thing)

Well, I guess that's it.
Nikolay

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:18:22 GMT, "alwaysfishking"
sent into the ether:

Ok the year is winding down and I've been thinking about the year is
perspective and fishing achievements/accomplishments. What are some of your
memorable fishing experiences this past year, good, bad indifferent. Win a
tourney? Teach a kid to fish? Get out with the old man/lady? Catch a fish on
a crankbait for the first time? Lunker? Personal bests? Let em rip. I'll
post mine later.

Randy-


Well, as I sit here in my "new" apartment in Merill, WI, I have to say
I enjoyed all the fishing I was able to afford to do this year. My
biggest highlight is... I now have a job! Yes, someone is actually
paying to work for them! Yahoo

Not only do I have a job, but I am now 45 to 60 minutes away from
places I used to drive half a day to get to! The company I work for
is on the WI River and I can cast from the edge of the parking lot. I
sure do hope there are Smallies around there.

Steve Huber is only 45 minutes to my Northeast. Steve, Janet and I
went to the Al Gen for a fish fry last Friday and it is indeed a good
feed! I can't wait till the NWC!

My highlights on the water were the times I was able to take Justin,
my 10 year old grandson out fishing. The next best was my oldest son
John now likes to fish and we got out too. I am hoping to have them
both up here next summer for many outings on the water.

Look out Smallies, here we come!

BTW, I have a favorite Largemouth lake about an hour away too :}

Now I am just going to sit back and laugh at old man winter. Ain't
nothing he can throw at me that could be worse than the last year + of
searching for employment.

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since my last post but I'm back. This is a good topic
Randy. I had a really fun season of fishing. Early in the season I hooked up
with the Alwaysfisking dude and caught the only bass on our first day out.

After that I was the one-fish-wonder for a little while until I broke that
streak by boating like 9 fish in an outing.

I beat my personal best bass and then beat that one and again beat it once
more to bring my personal best bass to #5.5. That was a great acomplishment
for me. Too bad every time I did break it I never had a camera with me.

I started tourney fishing in the local clubs this year and had some good
experieences there. I partnered up with Randy in the "Bathtub" for a money
tourney and beat out half the field. That was cool.

I got to fish with alot of cool people, when I was for the most part in the
past, fishing solo. This was probably the best year of fishing I've had in a
long time.

Well, yesterday while up at bear camp the story of me catching 5 bass while
duck hunting was told numerous times, I guess thats my most memorable.

-Zimmy