GLADES Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 The weather looks like it will be real nice this weekend. If you see a 80's Ranger 373 tan/brown, give me a shout. Good luck guys. Quote
bocabasser Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 i will see you out there kevin. i'm glad you are fishing the kotg series this year. there will be some amazing everglades anglers out there. i have found a couple of spots that netted me between 13-15 pounds, but i have yet to find the big ones. hopefully sunday i will. good luck to everyone fishing it. i will talk to you on sunday kevin. Quote
evrgladesbasser Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Good luck guys! Your gonna have some good competition out there Quote
Super User SoFlaBassAddict Posted January 6, 2011 Super User Posted January 6, 2011 Good luck guys. Hope you all stick some big ones. Weather should be pretty good out there. Quote
never enough Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 bruce i havent been to holiday park since the last kotg...so ima just follow you on sunday if thats ok? Quote
salmicropterus Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 We'll be out there too. TR-21 with an Opti 225, green, silver and bone-say hi. Good luck to all! I'm with the post that said finding 13-15#-we can't find the 4s and 5s that will be needed for sure Quote
Catching Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Should be 50+ boats Sunday, it's going to be interesting to see who pulls in the big sack, fished yesterday had to work for it but best five right around 15 pounds, had a nice kicker follow a bait up, but pulled it away to keep her mouth fresh for the weekend To place it's going to take 20-25 pounds min, good luck and see ya at the park. Quote
Catching Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 22 boats today 21 pounds and change won it, we came in 7th, upper three places were in the teens Its going to be a close run tomorrow Quote
GLADES Posted January 10, 2011 Author Posted January 10, 2011 There were over 70 boats competing for the KOTG qualifier. The early morning scene at the boat ramp was pure comedy. Some of the late arrivals were playing bumper boats. Hulls into engines, hulls into hulls, plugs left out. Quite entertaining.The weather was nice, cool early, but the bags were small. We were culling 12.5" dinks until I caught a couple of 15-16" bass. The best thing working for us was wacky rigged pumpkin/red trick worms cast into the cover. Drop shot worms watermelon/red was good too.We ended up with 5 fish @ 5.82lb(pathetic). My son and I have not fished much lately and we have not fished HP in over a year. It really showed. I lost 2 really (5+) nice ones, my son 1. That is the difference between winning and finishing poorly.I did not think it was possible to catch 5 bass that are legal size, and not even crack 6 lbs. I am not sure where we placed, but it was near the bottom. We had a great time anyway and made some new friends. We looking forward to next month, several practice sessions, dead set on qualifying. Quote
Catching Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Hey salmicropterus I think we shook hands today, sorry I did not have time to talk, with the issues we were having I hope you understand I did see a tourist back into a trailer, and just kept going and the guy pulling the trailer kept going as well. The funny thing of the day was watching a Park Airboat blast the hat off another guy in the basin Quote
salmicropterus Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Hey salmicropterus I think we shook hands today, sorry I did not have time to talk, with the issues we were having I hope you understand I did see a tourist back into a trailer, and just kept going and the guy pulling the trailer kept going as well. The funny thing of the day was watching a Park Airboat blast the hat off another guy in the basin We did and no problem. Glad you guys could get your boat up on the trailer with the trim problem you had and it was good to connect a "name" with a face. @Glades- agree on the mess in the AM. It would be nice if people had enough sense to have their running lights on out in the basin when is is dark-it was a mess and if someone is goofy enough not to have that that they should be DQ-ed. We had 10.33# which was decent but we could just never cull up beyond a certain point. Can't say that we missed any big fish or anything else like that. We used "big fish" baits and tactics but kept catching 14-15s. Quote
bocabasser Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 what were the results? hank and skip took first place with 18 and change. one of the hicks brothers came in second with 15 and change. i think third was 14 and change and mike paid out six spots. we had 12.25 and came in 10th. my partner and i have qualified for the classic the last 2 years by points. we were culling by 9 am but just couldn't get a big bite. saw about a half dozen 4-6 pound females just cruising looking for the right bed. caught most of our fish on dippers and senkos. Quote
shallow thinker Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Ouch, its a good thing that I have a day job. I'd starve on tournament winnings. My partner was out of town so I fished alone. I started off catching little 12 inch squeakers on a shakey head and it never got any better as the sun got higher. My bag was 5-6 lbs if I'd have weighed them. At least I learned some good patterns for mudfish and warmouth. Quote
Triton Bob Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 @bocabasser. Congratulations that was good considering how many boats there were. You were only one good fish away from a check. Better luck next time. Quote
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