Bassworldsports at Lake Egypt ...

     Well went up to pactice for the tournament about 2 weeks before and 2 awesome days, had 15lb one day and 19lb the next fishing the same pattern.  So I was a little fired up about these results since I had not been on the Lake but one time since Feb and that was at night.  Thursday before the tournament I went up and caught some again out deep and also some schooling and felt good about our chances to at least get in the top 3.  After first stop I boated several fish and 3 keepers.  Then we moved aroud and several more fish, but could not getem to hold on the the bait and would pull off after setting the hook and fighting them for a min.  So we ended the day with only 4 keepers and not the start I wanted, but it happens and we will try again next time.  My next event is the regional at Lake Dardanelle, Arkansas.  I will be leaving for practice on Oct 29th.  Hopefully I can get into the top 6 !


GOD Bless

Joel

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

Last BFL coming up ....

    I have my last BFL on Kentucky Lake on Sept 10th and 11th.  So hopefully I can get on some good quality fish, I was down there last Friday and had about 13.25 lbs . All caught on a Go2baits 10" worm.  Check back I will let everyone know how it goes.

GOD Bless

Joel

Everstart at Detroit river...

     Well me and my buddy Harold Buchmeier left for Detroit on Saturday, July 9th and got up there that afternoon.  We got about 3 hours on the water and I had a couple keepers and so did Harold.   Over the next 4 days we concentrated on St Clair and the Detroit River, throwing crankbaits, tubes, and dropshots.  Practice for me was pretty good overall I caught about 15lb a day and never stayed on one spot very long.  On Monday a Storm came through on the lake and needless to say it was the worst storm they have had in the last 10years !  70 to 80 mph winds were reported and Harold and I were in our own boats in the middle of the St Clair, I finally made it to a bay in Canada and took cover for about an hour and half , Harold had no where to go and just floated for that time until the storm passed.  Day 1 I went to an area I had found on Sunday that had a decent group of fish and I ended up with 12.5 and my Co had 16lb and lost 2 more about 4.5 there, so I decided to leave and fish my way back to the ramp and hit some other places where I had caught some 3lbers and cull out at least my 2 small ones, but I never got to.  Day 2 I went back to that area and only caught 1 keeper ! I guesss I should have stayed there on day 1 and just caught them, but I thought I would save them for Day 2 also.  So I moved around to some other areas and managed to get 2 more keepers and ended up in 116th.  It was very disappointing after my practice, but my buddy Harold done well he got another check and moved up to 7th in points.  Hopefully he will take the points title for the year.   I was throwing Powell Rods with 6 and 8lb line , with a Lews reels.


GOD Bless

Joel

Fisherman's Headquarters open...

   Me and my team partner Doug fished the 1st annual Fisherman's Headquarters Open on June 25th last weekend.  We went down to practice on Thursday and Friday, but we never really caught anything over 3.25lbs in practice so we were just hoping we could get 15 to 16 lb limit.  We did find two good schools of fish and we only caught a few keepers out of each one and left.  So on Saturday we went to our first hole and had a limit in just an hour and culled  several times and by 9oclock we had 19.17  lbs and went to Moors Marina to take cover from the storms.  We stayed in here for about an hour and half and then went back out and caught more fish but never could get rid of that 3.25lber.  We ended up 4th place and felt blessed to do that well.  We were throwing worms on a Powell Max 734 Rod with a Lews 6:4:1 Reel.  My event is the Everstart Series at Detroit River in July.

GOD Bless

Joel