slimshad Posted September 8, 2014 Posted September 8, 2014 Well I fished my clubs last regular season tourny sunday. We fish the VERY tough Ohio River in the Louisville KY pool. I knew a small limit or a couple decent fish could get a check and possibly win it. All week I watched the weather and it looked like a high pressure blue bird day was coming. It has been crazy with rain and hot weather for two or more weeks. This was going to make it even more tough. I saw a video on bassmaster.com with Skeet Reese throwing a Ish Phat frog in the high daytime sun and he did good on it. All week i thought, why couldn't this work for me. I have never thrown a frog on the river. I knew of a couple good grass patches so i decided to buy a couple of those frogs and try it. I went in the cut and threw the frog and BAM cought a giant 2.5lb bass. Trust me that is huge here. I was pumped. Then we went hours without a keeper. I stuck a small 12" keeper then my partner stuck a decent 13 1/2" keeper. I figured we had 4 1/2 pounds and felt pretty good really. Well on the way back to the ramp, we hit the grass bed again and BAM another 2.5lb on the frog!. I was pumped to say the least. My plan had worked and we had 7.5 pounds of bass on the Ohio... We made it back to the weigh in after a 13 mile ride with 100's of pleasure boats making the ride very hard and slow. After the weigh in we made out with a few hundred dollars and second place! First was less than a pound away too. All in all I feel that it was a success. Nobody could believe I caught those two fish on a frog. They smashed it and with braided line I just manhandled them and flipped them in the boat. Fealt great to have a plan come together. Quote
kikstand454 Posted September 8, 2014 Posted September 8, 2014 Wtg! Nice when you take that leap and it pays off! ! I would have never told anyone you caught them on a frog. Lol. Shouldve just said " topwater" and let their imagination fill in the wrong pieces. Quote
slimshad Posted September 8, 2014 Author Posted September 8, 2014 Yes some gamesmanhip should have been played. Good thing is I think thats what they thought I was doing hahahaha... 1 Quote
CDMeyer Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 It is such a great feeling when your plan comes together Quote
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