opening day tommorrow....

Tommorrow is opening day for Illinois bow season and I'm rady to go.  Hopefully I can get a shot at one of these big ole bucks.  Then Bassworldsports at Lake egypt on the 15th!


GOD Bless

Joel

Lake of Egypt....

    I have a buddy in from up by Plainfield, IL and he loves fishing just as much as I do so we decided to head to Lake of Egypt for a couple days of fishing on Thursday and Friday and we had a blast to say the least.  We caught several fish both days and had good limits each day we were there, Thursday was about 15.5lbs and Friday 19.5lb .  We caught those fish on jigs, worms and crankbaits, on Powell max series and Powell Endurance series rods, with Lews Reels.  A worm that caught some fish was a Go2Baits 10in paddle tail.  Me and Doug have a Bassworldsports tournament on Oct 15th to start out the winter division.  Here are a few pics from Friday:

GOD Bless

Joel

Last BFL of the year ...

     Well on Thursday me and my buddy Doug went down to Kentucky Lake to try and find some fish and we started out fishing shallow for the first 3 hours of the day and didn't have the luck I was hoping for.  So I decided to go out and look on some ledges and by the end of the day we had found 2 schools of fish but hadn't caught many keepers since we left after catching a couple from each spot.  Friday we went shallow again for about 1.5 hours and then went back out to ledges again and found another good school of fish in 17 to 24 feet of water.  So after practice I wasn't sure what I would be able to do during the tournament bnut thought I could catch some fish.  Saturday I went to ledges to start off and caught a few shorts , but no keepers.  Then I went shallow for a while but no luck either, so I just kept working my ledges and ended up catching 7 keepers on the ledge I found on Friday and ended up with 11lb 4oz and 10th for the day.  Sunday I went and just looked at a few new places and caught 2 keepers right off the bat and then moved to a ledge I had caught some on 2 weeks ago and caught another one.  Then I went to the ledge I caught them on the day before and culled.  So about 12:00pm I went to a ledge I broke one off in the morning and caught a couple more keepers and culled up to 10lb 4oz.  I just could not find those big ones out on the ledges, but I was blessed by the LORD to do this well and finish up in 5th for the tournament and 7th for the year.  The LORD has blessed me all year long this year and hopefully it wil continue on throughout the winter as me and Doug are fishing Bassworldsports winter division at Lake of Egypt. 

 

I was throwing a Go2baits 10" paddle tail worm on a Powell Max 704 rod with a Lews 6:4:1 Reel, an ole monster on a 705 Powell max rod with a Lews 6:4:1 Reel, a homemade football jig with a Go2baits swimin craw as a trailer and also a strike rage tail jig trailer on a  Powell Endurance 764 rod with a Lews 6:4:1 reel, and a Strike King 6xd on a Powell Endurance 706 crankin rod witrh a Lews 6:4:1 reel.   

   GOD Bless

Joel

BFL Next weekend and motor is broke down....

     Well I went down to Kentucky Lake last  weekend to do some more prefishing for the BFL this weekend on Friday.  I put in at Paris and fished this area most of the day and about 130 I decided I was going to get close to the Paris area again and while running down the lake the motor cut out, so I slowed down some to 4000rpm and couldn't gain any power or speed and then the motor just shut down and lost all power.  I tried starting it but no luck it sounded like it was trying to lock up.  So it now sits at Jet a Marina in Calvert City to be fixed.    I have a boat of my buddies to use in case mine doesn't get fixed,  I'm in 12th in points and only about 65 to 70 points out of the angler of year points title.   Stay tuned for the rest of this week.

GOD Bless

Joel