Cold Front Reward

Headed out yesterday to Pigeon for the first time to get a sense of the water and location. I'm fishing a tourney on the tri lakes this coming weekend and wanted to first and foremost scan for prop killing obstacles. Thats basically my pre-fish strategy...find prop killers and they usually hold fish ...two birds(bass)one stone kinda thing;)!!Anyways I picked probably the strongest cold front day in a while to go fishing. Water temps were average 65f, wind changing from North West to East back to North through-out the day and blowing 15-20+ knots and on and off again cold rain.Really tough boat control to say the least...anyways found some calmer water and fished real slow...managed a decent day with lots of 1.5-2 lb's a few healthy 2.5-3's and a nice kicker that I didn't weight but I figure 4+. Not a bad day and look at the lake considering the weather, couple pics attached of a couple fish...couldn't work the camera well for the others in the rain.CheersFlavio

Tournament Bass Fishing

Hello World:

In the last year or so I've decided to take up Tournament Bass Fishing. I was skeptical at first. I was concerned how the competitive pressure would affect my passion and love for the sport and truth be told, found Tournament TV shows kinda boring...man I couldn't have been more wrong!!!

Combine mind-wracking strategy, with super high adrenaline and fierce competition and you've got the makings of an incredibly addictive and rewarding sport. Prior to tourney fishing, I thought I knew how to catch bass... boy was I wrong. My very first small event, my partner and I placed 2nd and we thought we would rule the roost!!! "This is easy!!!" Ya right!?! Subsequent tournaments and we were at the bottom of the list. Talk about kicking your confidence down a thousand notches.

But we've perservered, and overcame some severely beatup ego's to battle our way through several events, inching our way up the rankings to making the cut with the privledge to compete in final big Classic of the year.

So, this blog is an attempt to recap on what we've learned and the mistakes we made and to document our progress moving forward.

See ya soon!!!

Flavio