Lake Gaston

[Nitrofreak]

Headed down for a two day event 22/23, only been there once, I love the place honestly and I am looking forward to the challenge, last year I came in with big fish 5.22 lbs which came from an area neither my boater nor myself had ever seen but looked really good on the paper map so I convinced him to go, I believe we will be exploring some more options during this event as well, anyone one need any reports on the current status I will be happy to pass along locations, conditions and what I know and used during the event that worked or did not work.

 

Have fun and be safe out there !!!

[Sam]

Good luck in your tournament.

 

And as you said, be safe!

[Nitrofreak]

On 5/20/2021 at 6:06 AM, Sam said:

Good luck in your tournament.

 

And as you said, be safe!

Thank you Sam, it was a very good outing we learned a lot about the lake and respectively had a 5th and 6th place finish, we just lacked getting a couple of those big bites again but my tournament partner and I are getting better and better with each outing we have man, we had a 9.07 day one for the 6th place on day one, winning bag was 11 something, day two we had 7.7 something and got 5th, winning bag was 19. Something, close to a 20lb bag, day 2 was by far the hardest and probably the toughest day we have had since I have been paired with him, we put our heads down, took a look at our maps and said let’s go here and here and ended up with a limit, very, VERY pleased with how day 2 turned out.

[Sam]

5 hours ago, Nitrofreak said:

Thank you Sam, it was a very good outing we learned a lot about the lake and respectively had a 5th and 6th place finish, we just lacked getting a couple of those big bites again but my tournament partner and I are getting better and better with each outing we have man, we had a 9.07 day one for the 6th place on day one, winning bag was 11 something, day two we had 7.7 something and got 5th, winning bag was 19. Something, close to a 20lb bag, day 2 was by far the hardest and probably the toughest day we have had since I have been paired with him, we put our heads down, took a look at our maps and said let’s go here and here and ended up with a limit, very, VERY pleased with how day 2 turned out.

Great report.

 

You did sensational ,especially when you understand that you were against guys who fish Gaston on a regular basis.

 

My gripe with my bass club is that we fish Buggs and Gaston only once a year so we really do not know either lakes in great detail. So we are behind the 8-ball at blast off and all day long. But the guys want to continue fishing both lakes so I will go along with them, but my heart is not in either tournament.

 

 

[Nitrofreak]

48 minutes ago, Sam said:

Great report.

 

You did sensational ,especially when you understand that you were against guys who fish Gaston on a regular basis.

 

My gripe with my bass club is that we fish Buggs and Gaston only once a year so we really do not know either lakes in great detail. So we are behind the 8-ball at blast off and all day long. But the guys want to continue fishing both lakes so I will go along with them, but my heart is not in either tournament.

 

 

We only travel to those same lakes once a year also, yes, there are some great sticks in this club who do have experience on this body of water as well as others, as you, we are left to fend for ourselves, what I feel the difference between you and I my friend is that I feel different about the situation we have been presented with, my thoughts are geared more toward a couple/few more years down the road, if my tournament partner and I are still doing this then I firmly believe we can contend for wins as long as we keep learning, as long as we keep exploring, the rest I feel very confident in saying will come to us at some point, lots of work yet to do, our map reading, sonar echos, what we like to fish structure wise, shallow vs. deep, we are learning important things from one another while we are learning from the fish and from the lakes themselves.

 

Thank you Sam, your words of encouragement are always held valuable with me.