txfisherman

Can someone tell me did I miss something with this line? I haven't seen or heard anything to this regard, please advise. piercedl910@comcast.net (txfisherman)

I also use the Lock-N-Haul system. When it is in place the motor stays straight and locked into place. I have been using one on my Yamaha 200 for a year and it works great. Take a look at the Lock-n-Haul advanced transom savers.

Welcome aboard.

Tragedy at KY Lake 10/8/2010 An accident this morning at Barkley Lake claimed the life of a co-angler fishing the BFL Regional there. Kentucky Dept. of Fish & Wildlife public-affairs officer Sgt. Garry Clark issued the following statement to another site about the accident. "Two bass boats in two different tournaments collided on Barkley Lake near Kuttawa, Ky. at approximately 7:15 this morning," Clark said. "One boat was fishing the Renegade Bass Classic, and there were two people on that boat. The two people in the other boat were fishing the BFL Regional bass tournament. They were on Barkley out in the main channel one heading east, the other heading west. They came on a collision course and collided with each other. When they realized they were on the same course they tried to make amends and still collided. "On the (Renegade) boat, it ejected the operator but he had his lifejacket and killswitch on and it didn't hurt him. (Both the driver and the passenger) were unhurt. In the other boat, the passenger did have the boat hit him and he died on the scene. The driver was okay he had his safety stuff on too. He was practicing safety as far as having the killswitch hooked up and lifejacket on while moving." Sgt. Clark added that the deceased was a 41-year-old male from Eupora, Miss. According to FLW Outdoors standings and pairings for the event, Freddy McCrory was the only co-angler in the event from Eupora, Miss. His boater today was David "Scotty" Young. Young, a Kentucky Lake legend, survived a terrible boating accident in October 2007 at the Kentucky Lake BFL Regional that resulted in lacerations to his head and a neck injury that required surgery. His accident apparently occurred when his boat contacted underwater structure. Young's motor became dislodged and struck him. His partner then was uninjured. The sport grieves.

South Toledo Bend State Park might be an option since that is directly accross the lake from that area. http://www.toledo-bend.com/attractions/index.asp?request=stbsp

I vote for Nov 6th

Count me in for the first weekend of November, I will be out on business travel the last week of October and not return until that weekend and not able to be at the lake before the next weekend. I look forward to the trip and hope to see a good turn out. The first Toledo Bend Get Together was great, would like to see more participation. Let's get it on.

Good luck to you guys and Jack you take it easy on that back, we still need you around here. Have a safe trip. Dan

You might try Big Bass Marina at 318-586-4721. They are about 3 miles by water from Cypress Bend south of Negreet Creek on the Louisiana side. They cabins, trailers and open sites, with a resturant and boat ramp with gas on the water. Good luck.

Jack, my place is open to you, i will be there I believe on Thursday, where i will be working on the tournament friday thru sunday, so let me know. I could possibly put up one more at the house, where I have an air mattress for someone. My place is located 3 miles south of Cypress Bend by water and located by Big Bass Marina. They are 2 launch ramps within 1 mile of the trailer and have power available.

That is great news and congrats to your friend on the closing. I will keep you posted on my plans as still awaiting the scheduling from my mother, should either hear today or tomorrow, then I can set my plans. Plans are for now, Fish Bass-N-Bucks Saturday (10th), if the surgery is scheduled for early next week, drive on over to Baton Rouge Sunday, go through surgery and out of ICU, then drive back to Lakehouse, collect my boat and goods and be on the water early Friday morning for first light and catch up to you guys Friday evening in Zavalla. Look forward to these plans coming through and meeting you guys at the lake. I will be in touch later with details. My cell phone is 832-477-2635 and email is piercedl910@comcast.net, which goes to my Blackberry and that is with me all the time, as long as I have service. Thanks for the invitation and look forward to it. Dan

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. Jack pm the information to me and if things will work out I may do just that, join you guys in Zavala. This is a way to meet and spend some time with others like our last outing on the Bend. I will be up on Rayburn next Friday and Saturday if the surgery holds off, then return to Houston to turn around and be back on Thursday night to pick up the boat and be on the water before first light Friday. I will post you on the plans as they go and when I know what they will be, once I hear from from the family in Baton Rouge. Dan

I am planning on being there, registered and ready, but awaiting to hear if and when my mother is going to have her heart surgery and may have to miss. Won't know until middle of next week. I was planning on either stay in my truck at one of the parks where I can plug up my boat each night or drive over from my lakehouse on T Bend, depending on the weather. Am planning on staying at this time down around the south end of the lake at this time. Will stay in touch. Dan

Likewise_ great to put a face to the name and players. Hope things get ironed out on the motor and look forward to the next oppurtunity.

I made the trip back to Southeast side of Houston safely, and ended up the remainder of the weekend doing my Honey-Dos for the wife. I enjoyed getting to meet all that showed up and look forward to meeting all again. We missed you Wesley and Catt. but understand how things come up. I am up for another get together. Had a blast and learned some more about this lake. Even though I have fished this lake but mostly the southern end of the lake, I found from the information and guidance from Jack, he helped produce some nice fish and I found someone that fishes a lot like I do. Maybe some partnering down the road may be in order. I had a blast catching the fish I did catch, and watch Jack pull his fish up helped me to relate to what the fish were doing Saturday. We were probably for the most part of the day paralleling each other, from time to time I was on one side of the grassline and Jack was on the other side, we took turns catching fish. My two fish I caught were caught on carolina rig Watermelon/Red Flake worm and Chrome/Blue Back/Orange belly rattle-trap over the grass. I agree with Jack, in the future, we need to have some better understanding by the participants, either it is established or understood, if participating in the event, someone must be notified if you are not going to show up for the weighin to ensure everyone is safe. Look for the chance to do this again. Dan

OKay I need to finaalize my knowledge and may not have internet access after tonight, but I need to know the game plan. I know fishfordollars has some family issues he is dealing with and is out of pocket (somewhat) but plans to be at the meeting place Saturday morning, and if I understand correctly, we are to meet at Harborlight at 5 am, to meet, partner up, pay up, and then arrange for the meet location for weighin at 3. I will be driving over to the meet site from my place at the lake on the Louisiana side in Negreet with my boat. I will be in a Red Dodge Quad Cab Pickup pulling a Green Cajun dual console boat with Yamaha motor. So if you see me flag me down to get together at the meet up. I will have a cell phone on so if you need to reach me, call (832) 477-2635 Dan Pierce personal email, (which I receive on my Blackberry) piercedl910@comcast.net

I am good with that, $25 & $10. Jack any decision about my offer?

I guess I can, have we decided where and when we will take off from, I might launch by the house and drive over to launch, depending on where and if I know the ramp? I do want to take up on the offer you mentioned, I'll leave it at that. Lets count me in for a boat, remember it is a 1993 Cajun boat w/ 200 Yamaha, (not the prettiest boat but fishes well) but handles the Bend well. Dan 832-477-2635 piercedl910@comcast.net

What's the story for Friday night and Saturday for the tournament? Have we got a place to meet and where we are to launch and weigh in, yet? Jack, what is the plan for me to meet you on Saturday morning? I be driving over from the lakehouse on the Louisiana side and then drive back to LaPorte after the tournament Saturday. Let me know. Dan (piercedl910@comcast.net)

I'll be coming up Friday at noon, and going to my lakehouse on the Louisiana side out of Negreet (near Big Bass Marina). Waiting to hear where we will meet up and when is launch time. Jack I will get with you on where I am to meet you and what time. Dan 832-477-2635

Catt, went to the area we talked about and the first cast of the morning was at straight up 7 o'clock, fish on, 13 3/4 inch, then the next 3 cast back to back triplets, 2#s each, then my partner catches a 3 1/2#. we caught about 10 fish total but only were able to weigh the 4 for a total of 9.43. we had a big fish on but never got it turned or seen. Look forward to the end of the month meet up.

One of the places I fished while I lived on the East side of Baton Rouge (Baker), was to go to False River and then always as I got a chance was to go to the spillway and fish the interstate pilings up and down Interstate 10, and the area called Whiskey Bay. Always produced good fishing.

WHen I had to replace mine, I did all of them when I was up on a tournament, I put the boat in the water, fished the tournament, after I weighed in my fish, I went to the truck, got out the socket wrench and removed the bolts from the bottom of the boards on the trailer, I had already cut the pressure treated boards to the length I needed and glued then stapled the edges of the carpet to the board, then when I put the boards to the trailer, I applied Gorilla glue to the threads of the bolts and snugged them up. They were only one inch bolts, so not long enough to come through the boards. Once I got them on the trailer, I applied some clear silicon to the heads to seal them, and put a little vaseline on the end of the carpeted bunks to allow the boat to slide on and off the trailer easier. If you don't apply the vaseline to the dry carpet you boat may not want to slide off easy when you go back to unlaod your boat. Just the way I did it and it took only about 45 minutes to do all four of my bunks and that included removing and repplacing the rollers on the trailers while I had the oppurtunity.

I wouldn't mount the onboard charger under a console, that would make the leads to long and cause you a voltage drop, I would put it in the compartment where my batteries are located and I just bought one from Tackle Unlimited for $300and some change with tax. It comes with 3 10 amp bank leads and I leave the maintainer plugged in when not in use, it has a builtin shut off and voltage monitor. Only charges when needed and with 10 amps, overnight from a long day of tournament use, this charges the batteries to 100%, ready for the next morning. http://www.fishingtackleunlimited.com/p/FTU/c-trolling-motors-batteries/CHAR-SE3SS.html

Overall Standings as of 10/10/2009 Previous Ranking Current Ranking Last Name First Name Total Points 1 1 Kennedy Steve 4419 2 2 VanDam Kevin 4338 5 3 Faircloth Todd 4246.7 3 4 Morgan Andy 4244.1 4 5 Rose Mark 4194.6 10 6 Hackney Greg 4186.3 6 7 Lefebre Dave 4156.6 9 8 Omori Takahiro 4155.1 7 9 Wendlandt Clark 4155 8 10 Fukae Shinichi 4130.6 12 11 Martens Aaron 4106.2 11 12 Walker David 4074.9 17 13 McClelland Mike 4071.5 13 14 Clausen Luke 4013.7 14 15 Jones Alton 4013.3 15 16 Dudley David P. 4012.6 16 17 Yelas Jay 3987.3 18 18 Duckett Boyd 3956 19 19 Nixon Larry 3953.5 20 20 Gagliardi Anthony 3950.8 21 21 Iaconelli Mike 3948.1 22 22 Jordon Kelly 3934.9 23 23 Baumgardner Chris 3891.6 24 24 Biffle Tommy 3853.3 28 25 Evers Edwin 3824.1 25 26 Rojas Dean 3816.9 29 27 Wick Ken 3816.8 26 28 Howell Randy 3815.7 27 29 Klein Gary 3804.8 31 30 Montgomery Andy 3774.4 32 31 Roumbanis Fred 3764.4 34 32 Browne Glenn 3763.4 30 33 Scroggins Terry 3726.7 33 34 Swindle Gerald 3679.1 38 35 Kriet Jeff 3675.3 35 36 Ashley Casey 3662.2 47 37 Horton Tim 3660.4 36 38 Grigsby Shaw 3645.8 37 39 Pugh Greg 3623.9 52 40 Monroe Ishama 3618.3 39 41 Ferguson, III Art 3616.9 41 42 Herren Matt 3608.1 50 43 Snowden Brian 3603.8 40 44 Wolak Dave 3598.7 42 45 Pace Cliff 3565.1 43 46 Thliveros Peter 3562.8 44 47 Morehead Dan 3552 45 48 Suggs Scott 3547.3 46 49 Wirth Kevin 3544.7 51 50 Elliott Chris 3536.7 48 51 Chapman Brent 3532.7 53 52 Hawkes Mike 3512.6 49 53 Lane Bobby 3486.2 64 54 Dowling Craig 3430.1 54 55 Baksay Terry 3425.9 67 56 Morris Rick 3415.8 55 57 Davis Mark 3392.8 59 58 Morgenthaler Chad 3388.1 58 59 Pirch Clifford 3377.8 56 60 Williamson Jason 3368.7 57 61 Murray John 3361 73 62 Reed Matt 3354.1 61 63 Niggemeyer James 3340.7 65 64 Hallman Bradley 3333.9 60 65 Quinn Jason 3326.3 62 66 Lowen Bill 3312.8 63 67 Remitz Derek 3312.1 69 68 Lane Russ 3309 74 69 Hoernke Sean 3290.3 66 70 Short Kevin 3286 68 71 Menendez Mark 3251.5 70 72 Dillard Jim 3242.5 71 73 Defoe Ott 3240.7 72 74 Blaukat Randy 3237.6 77 75 Wurm Mike 3222.3 75 76 Fralick Jami 3208.2 79 77 Auten Todd 3133.6 76 78 Brauer Denny 3124.8 83 79 Mabrey Kyle 3108.4 80 80 Crews Jr. John 3106.6 84 81 Tyler Mark 3063.8 78 82 Newton Jonathan 3043 81 83 Browning Stephen 3029.8 82 84 Mann Jr. Tom 3026.6 87 85 Newby Sam 2968.1 85 86 Butcher Terry 2898.6 86 87 Yamamoto Gary 2876.6 91 88 Martin Tommy 2842.4 88 89 Lytle Curt 2794.7 89 90 Myers Britt 2764.3 90 91 Thomas Joe 2744.2 95 92 Smith David 2721.9 96 93 Connella Jeff 2675.8 92 94 Velvick Byron 2664.7 93 95 Schenck Shad 2643.8 94 96 Reynolds Jeff 2625.1 98 97 Elias Paul 2595.9 103 98 Reyes Jason 2549.4 97 99 Stone Marty 2546.3 99 100 Hartley Charlie 2503.8 100 101 Crow Brent 2499.8 101 102 Moore Andre 2499 102 103 Bird Cody 2467.4 104 104 Vinson Greg 2406.3 108 105 Ponds Pete 2383.2 105 106 Murphy Michael 2351.5 106 107 Gluszek Pete 2347.3 107 108 Shaw Alvin 2342.1 109 109 Miyazaki Yusuke 2330.7 111 110 Eaker Sr. Guy 2275.4 110 111 Delong II Glenn R. 2236.2 113 112 Matsubu Ben 2205.6 115 113 King Stacey 2185 112 114 Cook Ken 2181.8 141 115 Contaoi Fred 2168.4 117 116 Rowland Zell 2129 114 117 Wilks Dustin 2113.2 120 118 Dove Kurt 2077.9 116 119 Correia Danny 2061 121 120 Daves Chris 2059.9 118 121 Bosley Brennan 2018.7 119 122 Pack Mark 1894.1 123 123 Luce Elton Jr 1845.3 122 124 Canterbury Scott 1799.3 124 125 Ingram Charlie 1758.2 125 126 Thomas Wes 1632.9 126 127 Martin Jr. Lendell 1619.5 127 128 Riffle Gary 1554.7 130 129 Melvin Sandy 1474.2 128 130 Reese Skeet 1451.2 133 131 Thrift Bryan 1407.7 131 132 Combs Keith 1370.3 135 133 Mansue Dave 1345.6 129 134 Kreiger Koby 1339 132 135 Kenney JT 1313.6 134 136 Adams Tracy 1302.6 136 137 Bain-Moore Kim 1053.8 144 138 Christie Jason 1035.3 137 139 Mason Jimmy 1030 138 140 Ash Rick 995.9 139 141 Bailey Jr. Lee 967.2 140 142 Powroznik Jacob 951.9 142 143 Segraves Terry 913.4 143 144 Farley Tim 911.4 145 145 Trancygier Rusty 892.1 155 146 Penso Brian 733.5 147 147 O'Neal Lonnie 705.8 150 148 Bobo Dalton 693.8 146 149 Sim Charles 692.5 149 150 Moran Russ 682.2 148 151 Brauer Chad 681.9 154 152 Jenkel Derek (Duke) 677.9 151 153 Merkin Doc (Robert) 633.7 158 154 Pierce Patrick 610.9 152 155 Curtis Jr. David 600.8 153 156 Voyles John 565.1 160 157 Vick Lance 564.3 156 158 McManaway Aaron 540.5 157 159 Yarnall Randy 539.9 164 160 Knight Trevor 536.6 163 161 Sisk Timothy 501.8 159 162 Brazzell John 500.1 161 163 Rackley Justin 489.1 172 164 Blassingame Shonn 469.1 175 165 Caka Keith 454.2 170 166 Ogrodowicz Matt 448.5 162 167 Dyer Clay 447.2 165 168 Divincenti Mary 398.5 171 169 Cecil Russell 390.2 166 170 Pearson, JR Robert 376.2 190 171 Bebber Charles 371.5 168 172 Chachere Tony 370.7 167 173 Blosser Bob 348.7 169 174 Lannom Frank 316 173 175 Wilkerson Chris 305.2 178 176 Phillips Gordon 277.9 174 177 Guy Ricky 277 179 178 Brazier Ray 257.7 186 179 Jakub Aaron Lee 256.1 176 180 Broderick Brody (Brent) 247.1 177 181 Cole Erwin 235.4 195 182 Luedke Trea 228.5 180 183 Grice Johnny 209.3 185 184 Browning Scott 198 181 185 Wilemon Brad 193.3 188 186 Wagner Ronnie 190.9 182 187 Moody Sam 187.7 183 188 Kirk Danny 181.3 184 189 Ellenstein Michael 180 187 190 Chapman Kenneth 158.1 189 191 Jones Douglas 153 211 192 Waldrop Corey 151.5 191 193 Lambert Jason 150.8 197 194 Seaton Jason 143.2 192 195 Taylor Craig 133.3 193 196 Parsons Dave 132.3 194 197 Pace Keith 130.6 196 198 Amick Patrick 122.9 199 199 Ely Charlie 113.4 198 200 Malone Cody 109.7 203 201 Ellison Gene 92.5 205 202 Greer Sam 81.5 200 203 Carroll Ben 59.8 201 204 DiBerardino Nick 53.1 204 205 Thomas Eddy 51.8 202 206 Bennett Bob 46.8 206 207 Boler Roger 33.6 207 208 Strickland Dan 27.9 208 209 Bull Alan 26.6 209 210 Knight Monte 26.4 210 211 Buie Greg 21.7 212 212 Alexander Randy 6.5 213 213 Loyd Travis 0 214 214 Felps Les 0 215 215 Thomason Charlie 0 216 216 Mitchell Brett 0 217 217 Johnson Shawn 0 218 218 Warren Ken 0 219 219 Haggerty Michael 0 220 220 Carter Rick 0 221 221 Kenyon Robert 0 222 222 Huntley Bill 0 223 223 Padgett Bobby 0 224 224 Bacon Andrew 0 225 225 Whitten Steve 0 226 226 Vahrenberg Doug 0 227 227 Ramsey Frank 0 228 228 Russell Jim 0 229 229 Boothe Jr. Frank 0