Well Kelly and I are Off to fish the championship for CAST this weekend. Hope to come home with that new boat!!! Its been a good year so far lets hope it keeps going!
Let ya know how we did when I get back. Got my crankbaits and jigs all tied on and my seacret weapon (Bullet Bobbers) ready to go.
Talk to yall Monday night.
OFF to Texoma for our Championship
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mofish
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Thanks,
Conley Staley
Conley Staley
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johnnie crain outdoors
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Conley, best of luck, just rely on your skills, you'll do fine I'm sure. Your secret weapon just might work!! Have a safe one. Johnnie
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BulBob
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Conely,
I'd like to put a couple BulletBobber logos on that new boat.
I think if you win using the secret weapon you'll need a new shirt with a logo too, and some gas for the new boat and gas for the truck.
I'm agonna make some decals in confidence of your win!!! The BulletBobber could make the difference between winning and loosing a tournament.
Good Luck >
I'd like to put a couple BulletBobber logos on that new boat.
I think if you win using the secret weapon you'll need a new shirt with a logo too, and some gas for the new boat and gas for the truck.
I'm agonna make some decals in confidence of your win!!! The BulletBobber could make the difference between winning and loosing a tournament.
Good Luck >
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carl
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Good luck Conley, catch a 10 pounder for me. Carl
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mofish
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Well the championship came and went and I had a blast! Didn't win any money but sure had a great time!!
Caught my biggest small mouth to date. 4.04 pounds. Man what a fight!!
First day of the tournament was post frontal conditions. Bright blue bird skys and just a beautiful day to be on the lake. Just the fish did not like it. Spent two days changing line on rods just knowing that the clear water would call for lighter line. Started the morning with a top water spook and had a few roll on it just would not take it and the ones that did had that problem of their eyes were too close to their tail symptoms. So with the bright skys and all I went to flipping and pitching around docks. First flip I made to a brush pile under a dock I got a bite and set the hook! After a brief scrap the line breaks. I didn't think to much about it just one of them things that happens. When the second fish breaks the line in the brush I started wondering what the heck did I do wrong?? Then it hit me I changed all my rods to lighter line. First big mistake of the tournament. I dug around in the boat looking for my Power Pro line only to remember leaving it in the motel room!! Second mistake. So here I am,I figure out what the fish are doing but I cant get them in the boat because they would saw my line into on the brush and leave me retieing. I was so frustrated that I could not concintrate the rest of the day. Big fat 0 for the first day of the tournament.
Day Two:
Second front passes throught early that morning bringing rain with it. MAN DID IT RAIN. First cast of the morning I hang a big fish on a spitting image. It a big small mouth that just thinks it needs to show its acrobatic skills and after its second flip in the air it spits the bait. I regain my thoughts and throw back out and BAM a second small mouth hits and after a struggle with the monster its in the net. 4.04 pounds. MY biggest small mouth ever. So after a little celibration dance on the front of the boat we slip it in the livewell and I make another cast. WHAM another one slams the bait sending it about two foot in the air but no hook up. We work our way down the bank and I tell Kelly I want to go back up there again and give it another shot. Second pass I catch another 15" smally to go along with the first to keep it company. Then the wife catches a 15" spotted bass. The outlook for the day looks great and we haven't even been fishing for an hour. I guess thats what happens when you get to excited about it, because that was the last keeper we had all day. Lots of small fish but no more keepers. I pitched docks fished my brush piles that I had found the day before. And yes I even tried the bullet bobber but to no avail. All I could get was 12" to 13" ers all day long. Not to mentioned every inch of by body was soaked to the bone because of all the heavy rain.
All in all it was a good day much better than working. Lots of lessons learned, lots of mental break downs. This was probably the worst preperation for a tournament that I had ever had. I had to work alot of hours at the plant before the tournament which ment not much time to get prepared for fishing and it showed. It wont happen again I can assure you.
Thanks of the support you guys offered. I hope putting my mistake here can help someone else learn and have a more successful day than I did.
On a positive note it was a great weekend spent with my wife and freinds, my biggest smallmouth of my life (so far), and I was not at work!!! There is always a bright side to every story you just have to find it.
Bullet Bob You send them logos and I'll put them on there even though i didnt win. I'll make sure they get seen. I've already been sending some folks to your site.
Caught my biggest small mouth to date. 4.04 pounds. Man what a fight!!
First day of the tournament was post frontal conditions. Bright blue bird skys and just a beautiful day to be on the lake. Just the fish did not like it. Spent two days changing line on rods just knowing that the clear water would call for lighter line. Started the morning with a top water spook and had a few roll on it just would not take it and the ones that did had that problem of their eyes were too close to their tail symptoms. So with the bright skys and all I went to flipping and pitching around docks. First flip I made to a brush pile under a dock I got a bite and set the hook! After a brief scrap the line breaks. I didn't think to much about it just one of them things that happens. When the second fish breaks the line in the brush I started wondering what the heck did I do wrong?? Then it hit me I changed all my rods to lighter line. First big mistake of the tournament. I dug around in the boat looking for my Power Pro line only to remember leaving it in the motel room!! Second mistake. So here I am,I figure out what the fish are doing but I cant get them in the boat because they would saw my line into on the brush and leave me retieing. I was so frustrated that I could not concintrate the rest of the day. Big fat 0 for the first day of the tournament.
Day Two:
Second front passes throught early that morning bringing rain with it. MAN DID IT RAIN. First cast of the morning I hang a big fish on a spitting image. It a big small mouth that just thinks it needs to show its acrobatic skills and after its second flip in the air it spits the bait. I regain my thoughts and throw back out and BAM a second small mouth hits and after a struggle with the monster its in the net. 4.04 pounds. MY biggest small mouth ever. So after a little celibration dance on the front of the boat we slip it in the livewell and I make another cast. WHAM another one slams the bait sending it about two foot in the air but no hook up. We work our way down the bank and I tell Kelly I want to go back up there again and give it another shot. Second pass I catch another 15" smally to go along with the first to keep it company. Then the wife catches a 15" spotted bass. The outlook for the day looks great and we haven't even been fishing for an hour. I guess thats what happens when you get to excited about it, because that was the last keeper we had all day. Lots of small fish but no more keepers. I pitched docks fished my brush piles that I had found the day before. And yes I even tried the bullet bobber but to no avail. All I could get was 12" to 13" ers all day long. Not to mentioned every inch of by body was soaked to the bone because of all the heavy rain.
All in all it was a good day much better than working. Lots of lessons learned, lots of mental break downs. This was probably the worst preperation for a tournament that I had ever had. I had to work alot of hours at the plant before the tournament which ment not much time to get prepared for fishing and it showed. It wont happen again I can assure you.
Thanks of the support you guys offered. I hope putting my mistake here can help someone else learn and have a more successful day than I did.
On a positive note it was a great weekend spent with my wife and freinds, my biggest smallmouth of my life (so far), and I was not at work!!! There is always a bright side to every story you just have to find it.
Bullet Bob You send them logos and I'll put them on there even though i didnt win. I'll make sure they get seen. I've already been sending some folks to your site.
Thanks,
Conley Staley
Conley Staley