Lake Cumberland .... revisiting

[Oregon Native]

Well I've done my prefishing....(been up there for a total of six days....now leaving this morning with my wife (whooohoooo) and a couple friends and going to do the official prefish and then tourney on Sat/Sun.  I must say...I would think that approaching the 70 year mark I would be more calm, cool, and collective about this journey......NOT.  Muscles will be sore .... hope stomach calms down .... etc...etc.  

Kinda funny....gotta smile....Love this stuff....Praise God I still get to compete.

Thank you FLW.

Semi Finals here we come.....

Will try and give a good account of the journey next week.....Tight Lines All

 

[BassNJake]

Good luck and can't wait to hear all about it!!

[TnRiver46]

Good luck! Give em heck up there in ky!!!

[Gundog]

Good luck ON. Most importantly, have fun. 

[volzfan59]

Good luck brother! Go get 'em.

[Oregon Native]

Well.....back home safe and sound.  Was truly an awesome trip even though there were some burps.  We arrived on Tuesday and checked into the Seven Gables which is an older motel but awesome.  They let us BBQ out front and the boats were in front of the rooms like in the old days instead on three floors up like at the host motel.  I had told my wife (who loves to golf) we would golf Tuesday and the last practice day Friday.  Didn't feel like I needed to fish friday as I wanted to get boat ready and tackle and just chill.  Well....golfing was excellent on Friday and I even beat my wife which is unheard of.  We also had some good friends come along and so this made the trip even better.

Pre-fishing was good....found some fish way down lake and thought I would have this end of lake to myself mostly.....NOT.  Believe there were four tourneys this weekend.  Anyway ..... Saturday dawned pretty windy and rainy but not to cold and within a hour I had two solid fish in livewell.  Now this was a no cull tourney so the first five in the livewell stayed.  Well I ran down lake and fished my third spot and went to start the boat and click...click...click....sadness.  Non boater was awesome.  His nickname was Peanuts and he's from west Tennessee and was a huge help and a class act.  As we were floating out in the lake we try and pull the cowling off....now this is fun if you've never down in in the waves in heavy cloths.  So anyway he starts tapping the starter and I turn the key and the boat starts...whooohoooo.  Am I nervous....yes.  So I keep motor idling and the alarm goes off after about an hour.  So turn off.  Now you guys don't really know me but I like to fish a spot for about five minutes and if there's no customers ....or I see no fish I leave.  Well this really really crimped my style....I was nervous.  So I fished water I was new too and the excuse's go on and on.  I ran back to be close to the ramp with no more keepers in live well.  This was the first day in all my time fishing here that I hadn't put a limit in boat so was kind of sad but oh well.  Found out it was very tough for everyone.

Second day dawned clear and frosty.  My good friend who had brought his boat to practice out of let me use his boat the second day.  This was the first time in my life I have ever borrowed a boat....was nervous.  Filled it with gas and used about five gallons....maybe.  There were too many buttons and gadgets and lights.  Was nervous so didn't want to go to far.  My close up plan had fish...lots of fish but too many short strikes and this made it tough.  Ended up getting four small keeper spots on mostly a drop shot and one on a spinnerbait.  My non boat too was a class act but had a rough day...rough.  Could not hardly get bit even though we were on top of the fish.  I gave him my bait and within a short time he lost it and didn't want another.  We've all had those days....(too many).  I could hook the dinks...but keepers were tough to come by.  

All in all was a great time....wife had good down time and was so glad she came.  I ended up on the boater side just out of the top 12 by about a pound and a half....close but..........who knows what would have happened if my ol boat would have worked....who knows.

But....that' my story....and I'm sticking too it.

Tight Lines All

P.S.  Thanks to all who helped on the side...was awesome.

Oh...am going to try and enclose a picture of a rock structure by the lake on one of the spots I liked fishing.  Spoooooky!!  Having troubles

[TnRiver46]

My alarm goes off when idling also. Sorry for the inconveniences but at least you didn't have to spend the night on your boat! Nice job catching fish anyhow 

[Oregon Native]

Gosh boat is still in the shop....I think I know now what the boys/girls up north go through when they can't go fishing!!!!!  Went golf ball hunting three times this week....organizing tackle....watching grandkids....(this was a plus though) oh....and overthinking stuff about "just fishing".  Hope and pray boat is back soon and fixed.