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Not quite 9lbs. Took the kids to Holiday Park this afternoon. Was very surprised at the good bite...only went out a couple hours but caught about a half dozen like this and a bunch of 2-3lbers.

Showtime, Welcome to BR. I fished once in this cold front...that was Saturday at Okeechobee. The fishing definitely has been affected. Had to downsize and slow way down to get bit. We managed a good bag but we really had to work for them. Gonna try this afternoon for a little bit at Holiday Park,

Another good day on Okeechobee today with Leo. Brutal conditions...cold, bluebird, winds gusting over 30 out of the North in the morning. North wind is my nemesis out there, but today we got the better of her.

There was an empty boat going around in circles down around the rim ditch by Pahokee. They found the body a couple days later..not sure if he drowned/had a heart attack??? I don't think a crash was involved.

Thanks Lou. Feels pretty good to start seeing the results of our work there. We were boat #5 and we have a pretty fast boat (~72mph). We got to our first spot well ahead of the pack. We start fishing a line of heads and Brandon McMillian pulls in on the other side of the head and starts fishing. That's when you know you are in the right spot. Might try and hit Holiday Park tomorrow for a few hours. Will likely be with my Dad so probably not going to hit it too hard.

Looks like we lost about 5months worth of posts here... Leo and I finished 2nd at Giblets and Gravy out of Clewiston yesterday with 24.5lbs. 60boats. Leo would have had big fish also, but his 8.5lber coughed up a 10" mullet in the livewell as we were loading her up in the weigh in bag. The half pound mullet wouldn't have been enough to give us first (1st place = 25.5lbs) so complaints. Caught a bunch of fish and gave ourselves a chance to win...one more big bite in the last two hours and we would have it. We're starting to figure it out pretty good out there. Three straight trips well over 20lbs. Figures...just about the time we start going back to the glades...

Not even close to "the man" at Okeechobee, but I'm getting better. Appreciate the sentiment though. Went out yesterday...ran some new water. Had about 16lbs...Two 4lbers.

Had a really good session at Okeechobee yesterday. Five biggest "only" about 23lbs but it was probably one of the best days I've had out there...had a 6 and a 5 and a pile of 3s and 4s. Probably caught a hundred pounds of fish, total. I'm doing something a little different than the pack now and I think it can hold up for awhile. We'll see...gonna put it to the test in the Giblets and Gravy tourney coming up.

Fished Okeechobee with Leo yesterday. Pretty good day. Five biggest about 21-22lbs...enough to have won the tourney out of Slims if we had chose to fish it (Burke won with 20.5). Planned on quitting a little early though (2:00) to get back to FTL. Had three fish over 4.5lbs, including this 7lber. 3 of my last 4 trips to Okeechobee, I've caught 7lbers....I probably should have fished the Big Bass Challenge today. Looks like a perfect day for fishing...

Actually, my fish in post #763 is a little bit bigger than this fish. They are both in the 8lb range....mine was a little over and his a little under. But who's counting....

Thanks George. Went to Lox Friday afternoon with my Hawg Tech partner Robert (SouthFla) and went yesterday afternoon with my son Luke. Five fish over 5lb this weekend, including two giants. More Lox pics.... Yesterday: Friday afternoon (with Robert)

George, Leo and I kind of flamed out in the RMMC tourney. Long story short, we took a wrong turn on a trail and couldn't back track due to all the boat traffic coming thru. By the time we were able to get to our spot, our buddies were sitting right on it. They weighed 22lbs for 3rd place. We dumped 11-12lbs. I fished with Jack (shallow thinker) the following week at Ghosts and Goblins. We weighed 13.84lbs and I had the 3rd biggest fish for the tourney (me on the right: 6.92lb) It's a common theme for me at Okeechobee...one big fish and a pile of 2lbers. The fish are so scattered and the weights are showing it. Only two boats over 20lb in the Ghosts and Goblins tourney (over 70boats). I know where the winning bags are coming from now, but it's not a situation I care to deal with. 50 boats competing for the same few fish. Had an awesome weekend at Loxahatchee though. Ripped some giants out there.

Have another tourney at Okeechobee this Saturday. Payout is really good. ~$6000 for 1st place. Leo and I are starting to figure it out a little bit there. Probably not enough to compete just yet, but we have a puncher's chance. Last two times out we've had fish over 7lbs and five fish limits over 17lb. I got one two weeks ago Thursday just over 7. Last Saturday, Leo got a pretty good one...this fish was about 26" long. A little fatter and she was double digit for sure.

Lou, that's awesome. I love catching big fish on frogs. I'm glad you like the handle also...certainly does make fishing more enjoying IMO. I went out to Okeechobee Sunday with Leo. We did a little prefishing for the tourney next Saturday out of Roland Martins. Our five biggest went right around 15lbs...had one fish that went about five, and the rest in the 2-3lb range. We left our best stuff alone. I don't think we are on the kind of fish to be competitive against the big sticks showing up for this one ($2500 first prize) but we'll see.

Post #708 I mentioned I would put you guys on my fish. I was feeling charitable for the charity tournament! I did not prefish at all. Leo prefished one morning two weeks ago...he caught about 17lbs. We are pretty good at reading the water and knowing where to go under certain conditions. Leo found the kind of water we were looking for in his prefishing and we knew if we had certain conditions we would go there. Obviously we got those conditions. We went straight there and had 29lbs by 9:00....10 fish over 4lbs. We could have really wrecked em there to the tune of 30+ lbs if we had chosen to. We gave em the mercy rule.