Last Day of the Year...

     Well me and my Buddy Harold (Bucky) got out on the 31st to Kentucky Lake for one last day of fishing for the year.  It was supposed to be windy on Friday 10-20mph out of the south so we figured it would be rough on the main river, so we fished in a creek for a while and of course we had no luck.  So we went toward the mouth of the creek and it was not as rough as we thought it would be, so we went out on the main lake and on our first stop boated a fish.  It was still rough enough that the waves were coming over the bow of the boat occassionally, while fishing.  After a few more stops we got on another point and caught 8 fish off here, with only 2 being lake keepers.  So we got to hit 2 more points and ran out of time for the day.  I was using 6:2:1 reels and a Powell 684 and 686 rods with 10 and 12 lb Flourocarbon line.

GOD BLESS

Joel

New Rods...

I have gotten my hands on some of the new Powell Endurance Series rods and they very nice ! If you haven't tried any of the Powell Rods you need to do so. They are a very good rod for the price and you won't be dissappointed.  This new series has a look that will standout from the rest of the rods out there.  Here are a couple photo's:

 

More details of the Rods are available at http://www.powellco.com/

GOD Bless

Joel

Been bowhunting and Gun hunting with friends and family....

Well it has been a while since I have been on here but I have been very busy, with hunting this season.  Needless to say we have all been hunting hard and don't have  much to show for it except for Keith (Powell Rods) and my Dad.  The rest of us have not seen or not been able to get a shot at anything we wanted to shoot.  Second gun season is coming up dec 2nd and Keith and Gerald (Gman), his wife and Casey Ashley will be here for a few days, hopefully someone will get a big ole buck.  Here is photo's from My Dad and Keith's Buck's 

My dad is on the left ( Gun  Kill)   and Keith is on the right (Bow Kill 42 yards!)

I will try to keep you up to date on rest of the season.

GOD Bless

Joel

Guntersville Regional...

Well the regional is over and it was a tough one, but we all had a good time.  Got down there on Sunday night 10/10 and started practicing on Monday.  I found fish in the very large and long grass mats throughout the lake.  But the fish were mainly relating to the inside edge of the points of grass.  After 3 days of flipping and throwing frogs I had some areas where I thought I  could catch some fish.  So on day 1 I had 3 keepers, for about 8.5lbs and 50th place for the day.  So day 2 I thought I would need 17lbs to make the top 12, and thought it was possible to catch that.  But I only boated 1 keeper for the day and lost 5 others in the grass. I was using a Powell 7105 and 2 766 flipping rods, with 65 and 80 lb braid, flipping a Go2baits Lil Thumper and creature baits.  Also a Powell 735 frog rod for frogs, with 65lb braid.   All the tackleI used can be purchased from Tacklewarehouse, so check them out anything you need. So the season is over for me for a while now and I will be bow hunting hard for the next month.  I might fish a few team events this winter so I will keep you up to date on them.

GOD Bless

Joel

Headed to Guntersville....

Well I will be going to Guntersville this coming Sunday to go start practicing for the BFL regional there Oct. 14-16.  So today I will continue to get my tackle and equipment ready for the trip, it should be fun ! I wont have a laptop so I will have to update everyone when I get back. 

GOD Bless

Joel

The last BFL...

Well I just fished our last BFL on Kentucky Lake and finished in 35th, which is not where I expected but I did manage to finish 25th in the points for the year so I'm off to Guntersville for the regional.  I caught all my fish out on ledges with a crankbait, jig, worm, and carolina rig.  The worm was a Go2Baits 13" paddle tail in blue and plum colors with a 1/2 oz weight, a Powell 734 rod, the crankbait was on 754 and 753 glass rods, and also a 804crankbait rod, carolina rod was a 806 and the jig was on a 734 also.  I will try to keep you up to date when I go to Guntersville in October.

GOD Bless

Joel

The latest....

Well I've been doing some more scouting and fishing for the upcoming tournament in Kentucky Lake.  Had a decent day this weekend on the lake. I  went to a few places where I fished last year at this time and had some success.  If things go right I believe I will do ok in this event, it is the last BFL for the year oin Kentucky Lake then to Guntersville for the Regional., if work will allow me.  Here are a few pics from the deer I've seen. I didn't get photo's of the fish, there were other boats to close.

GOD Bless

Joel

Some pre season scouting...

Well I haven't been fishing in about 3 weeks now, but have been out scouting to see what shooter bucks we have running around on the farm and some leased ground we have.  And have found a few good ones to say the least.  I also got me one of those Stealth 4x4, 64 volt (all electric) UTV (Pic Below).  It is unbelievable how close you can get to deer and them not even know you are anywhere around.  I have one more tournament on September 11th at Kentucky Lake.   

Here are a couple video's from the farm, they are a little shaky , I didn't have my tripod:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs9001HQ3m0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnlSHRJIJ78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQ-DqU8eXk

GOD Bless

Joel