An episode of redemption and getting the monkey off my back...

[CJ]

I had gotten into the worst kinda funk the past few weeks. It's one a tournament fisherman doesn't want to get in. I was having some of the best practice days ever but when the day came, something had to go wrong. During two recent tournaments I had located a couple of schools of quality size bass. The current trends weren't helping much but I still would seem to find em. During the first tournament the fish did what was expected and drop down on the side of the ledge, a little bit deeper. I made a couple of cast with my XD crank and boom! A good un bit, then I call for the net. This is the part if any co-anglers are reading, my co-angler looks at me,standing still, not getting the net and ask,"is it a big one?" When a boater says'"net"...get the net! I took my eye off the fish to confirm with him and up she came and threw the lure. When this happened I knew right then this isn't my day. She had shut down the school.

Two weeks later I'm walking tall into my next event. I had found two more very promising spots. Tournament day came and at takeoff my boat don't want to take off! I finally get it up on pad and figure out that if I go above 4000 rpm it feels like it is floating out. Well my fish are about 45 miles away so I spend the day staying close to the weigh in site and scrap out a small limit. At this point I was glad to be done with tournaments.

Friday rolls around and I talk to my partner and he says there's a Fisher of Men tournament going on and he is on some fish! Oh what could it hurt, huh?

Well we head out to find the best two spots he had weren't any secret to other angler's. Here we go again! We fished hard for 5-6 hours and he looks at me and ask,"what do you want to do?" I said I got some fish I been meaning to go by and pick up! We get there and my partner is really questioning where I've taken us. I can't say to much but, it was the same depth as we were fishing, just not near the same type areas. Well my girls were still there and we showed up at feeding time! It happened in about 15 minutes! All the squirts got kicked out of the livewell!

Here's the link:

http://www.fomntt.com/schedule.php?id=2416

[Big-O]

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[Fat-G]

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[CJ]

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Sorry Steve. I started typing and took a break for supper. I think Gracie posted that for me! LOL

[Big-O]

And?????? the rest of the story please :

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Sorry Steve. I started typing and took a break for supper. I think Gracie posted that for me! LOL

That's excellent Chris, sounds like you're gonna make it to the Championship with points to spare 

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[garland7]

Way to hang in there and go get them! Thanks for sharing

[brushhoggin]

that would get my blood pressure way up, way to hammer everything out