Needham’S Roadtrip…..tales Of A Train Wreck.

[Brian Needham]

Needham’s Roadtrip…..Tales of a Train Wreck.

 

Well the day arrived for me to leave…. Then my irrigation turbine locked up, trip delayed…. Finally leave out on Friday 2pm. Two miles down the road a Humminbird cover flies over, cant find it…. 75 miles down the road I chip a tooth, sitting still in the truck. Bad JU JU I am feeling.

 

Roll into double head, eat some great BBQ done up by Pete-K…… Pete you are welcome anytime, my friend. Many thanks for the Good eats.

Then I tie knots in the dark, and rigging up for what I am hoping to be a big black bass beatdown.

 

On Saturday, I have Carl and Susan……. Alarm does not go off and I finally wake up at 6am, much later than I wanted. I apologize for the rest of the day.

Fishing was pretty good, but slowed in the afternoon. Luckly Carl was on a multi species bite, catching everything from drum, to whites, to catfish!

It was a GREAT time, Carl and Susan are great people and I wish them many happy years together!

Personal Total: 11 bass with two big uns

Our top 3:

 

My best 2:

 

Sunday:

Better start as I woke up on time, but my alarm was still screwy…… fishing with Jon and MikeL today…. We run water, I snap off one and lose one at the boat.

Fishing pockets and shallow points….. fishing was very slow and my mind is reeling, thinking and thinking on what and how to do this. We all boat a few fish in the morning.

We drop MikeL off as he was only fishing a half day and headed back to FLA. MikeL is a great guy and I hope to fish with him again!

While idling back out…. I am turning gears…… it dawns on me “shallow is relative”. I turn to Jon and say. 15fow is dirt shallow to these fish, so what do we do?

I run through my mind all the stories and reports from the rest of the group from earlier in the week.

We pull up on a bluff…. Which is wider than most. It had a great “staircase” 8-12fow wide shelf that dropped to 22-25, then to 35-40….. but this had wider “stairs” than I had seen. I drop a waypoint on each side of the “stair” then turn around and fish it.

Knowing if we didn’t bust them here it was over, I had no more to go …. But this felt different. I was actually somewhat calm.

BAM, big fish boated. Come to the next point and catch one right at the boat… now it made sense!!!! No fish in coves this morning and now two bites in 18+/- fow.

Come up on a tree and cast the Siebert Jig at the end of it, BIGGGGGG UN. Now we have a purpose.

These fish were deeper on wood, only got four bites that afternoon, but they were the right ones! They felt like they were moving out all afternoon…. And with more time I think we could have moved futher out and really done damage….but alas both myself and Jon had to get on the road. Our trip was over, but I learned so much. I am thankful to be able to fish with my friend Jon(bassinisaddicting), and hope to do it again next year, if not sooner!

Here is what we caught in the afternoon:

 

 

My personal total: 7 fish with four over 4#

 

Total for the weekend= 18 fish with 6 over 4#!!!

2 on squarebill

3 on senko

1 on shakyhead siebert outdoors 1/4oz extreme shaky

12 on tweaked Alabama Craw/JFrancho/mix color Siebert 3/4oz dredge football head with green pumpkin rage craw

 

I enjoyed every minute of fishing with these fine folks… it was truly a great time. It was great to see everyone again and many for the first time, and I look forward to it next year.

 

Siebert Outdoors dredge football jig is hands down the best jig out there. Period, end of story, not even close to being up for debate….. I can not thank Mike enough for tying me up 3 dozen jigs, of a custom color, on his way to the roadtrip! If that aint customer service, it don’t exists anywhere, THANKS MIKE SIEBERT!

Here is what the bass thought about my Siebert jigs:

 

 

 

I also have to thank each and everyone that attends these trips, you have no idea how much I learn from you all! And by the end of my stay I took a little bit of everyone to piece together what I think I figured out, never alone always as a team.

I have worked hard to become better on the water, to think, to plot, to be able to piece each bite together, to build from the last fish to the next. Jeff doesn’t want to take any credit, but he deserves a bunch. He has FORCED me to slow down and almost be a mild train wreck instead of a mile long track of carnage!

So thanks to everyone and anyone that came to the roadtrip, I hope to see everyone and many more next year!!!

[Brian Needham]

My best two from Sunday:

 

 

How much did they like that color jig from Siebert's???

YOU TELL ME! I kept finding my jig here:

 

[Mccallister25]

Those are some awesome pics Brian!! I only wish I was catching fish of that caliber.

[Brian Needham]

Those are some awesome pics Brian!! I only wish I was catching fish of that caliber.

 

Come to the Roadtrips!!!

 

all the lakes chosen for the trips are full of quality fish! 

 

It is a really cool experience to fish a lake for a few days in a row, you begin to figure out stuff you normally would not on Saturday only trips. It is really neat to see and experience!

For a guy learning like myself, it is a real confidence booster!

[Brian Needham]

funny thing is I didnt sneeze all weekend until I hit the Memphis city limits sign (true story)

 

I guess I have allergies and the only cure is more TN RIVER!!!!!

[Siebert Outdoors]

Great report Brian!! 

[F14A-B]

Real nice story! Nice pictures... That's a great fishery.... Nicely done!

Thanks for sharing...

[MCS]

Sorry to hear about your tooth.

[mnbassman23]

Great write up Brian! Glad to see you got on quality fish. That jig was chooooked

[A-Jay]

Excellent write up - documented your trip like only you can Brian.

 

Congrats on some killer bass right there as well.

 

A-Jay