Ky_Lake_Dude Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 Well guys I know i haven't been on in probably a month or two, I've just been so tied up with school and football among other stuff. Well this past week I fished In the BASS Junior World Championship on Lake Yale (part of the Harris Chain) in Tavares, FL which coincided with the adult federation nation championship. I would like to start by seeing that all my expectations were completely blown away. The folks at BASS did an amazing job. Well alright, I'll go ahead and get to the fishing part. I got into Tavares on Wednesday spent the night and practice began on Thursday. I arrive at the boat yard and meet my partner, Ross, who won the older age group of the Souther Divisonal back in April on Gaston. While at the boat yard I find out me and ross drew the nicest boat there. a 21ft Skeeter with a 250hp Yammy with a sick Toyota Tundra wrap on it being pulled by a wrapped Tundra truck. So we were like "well if we dont catch nothin at least we'll be ridin hot" LOL and also we find out that our boat captain is the editor of Bassmaster Magazine, James Hall. This guy is a class act and one of the funniest guys I've ever had the oppurtunity to be around. Well once we got on the water we pulled up on a spot we'd marked on GPS that we thought would be good. We pull up and me and Ross both start getting bites left and right. That morning we had decided we were only gonna stick one fish at each spot then not set the hook on anymore. so we probably had 7 or 8 bites apiec on this one spot and throughout the course of the day we cover basically the whole lake with a pretty good idea of how we'd spend the tournament day. Well come the morning of the tournament we blast off and head to our first spot. Ross catches two good fish within 20 minutes on a buzzbait so then i picked one up. I caught 1 good keeper on the buzzbait and had 2 or 3 more blow up on it and hooked and lost one that was an easy 6-7lbs :'( :'( so we steadily work that area for about another 30 minutes and im able to pick up 1 more keeper and Ross 2 more. By the end of the day I had only 3 keepers and Ross had 4. We get to do the weigh-in just like the adults, we ride up in the boat behind the truck through the weigh in line which was really cool. Well i weighed mine and it was something like 3lbs 9oz or so and Ross' 5 bag was around 5 or 6. Well the winner in my age group endded up being only 4 bass weighing in at 5lbs even weighed in by John Duarte of Maryland. And it broke my heart cuz i knew if i could've caught just one of those buzzbait fish I lost I most likely would've won the tournament. But hey and i dont mean to be cliche but thats why the call it fishing and not catching. In the older age group, Jake Cook of Washington completely lapped and blew away the field with a limit of bass weighing right at 14lbs. (2nd place was only about 6 1/2lbs) Jake did something COMPLETELY different than everyone else. He used a deep diving crankbait in about 12 feet of water on brushpiles to catch his fish. His bag was actually bigger than all but one weighed in on the adult side that day. I ended up 5th out of 6 guys but ya know what? Although I'm dissappointed i didnt win, 5th in the world is pretty dang good if u ask me. I hope to make it back to the JWC one day but if I dont, Im super happy I got to experience and participate such a great event. Quote
Super User Grey Wolf Posted November 1, 2009 Super User Posted November 1, 2009 Well you've got a memory now that you can look back on as you get older. Quote
Super User Tin Posted November 1, 2009 Super User Posted November 1, 2009 Awesome job. I had the chance to fish in three JWC's and they were great memories and great times. I still remember every little thing and I'm sure you will too. Congrats on catching fish too. My best friend fished for RI in the Nationals and it was brutal down there. He caust 3 fish in a week of practice. Quote
Chaz Hickcox Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Keep it up, seems like you have a lot of years yet to go. If your 5th now, where will you be in ten years? Maybe we'll see you with a couple BASS Angler of the Year awards and a TV show like Roland Martin. Keep it up bro! Quote
Ky_Lake_Dude Posted November 7, 2009 Author Posted November 7, 2009 I got it man. What a small world. lol Quote
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