BFL on Kentucky....

     Well my good fishing continued this week again, I ended up finishing 7th in the LBL Divivsion BFL on Saturday, with 18lb 2oz.   And this moved me into 12 place in points for the season.  I started practice on Thursday and found that some areas were still holding fish from the previous weekend.  And also found a couple others as well and then on Friday I went to a different area of the lake and found about 5 more places with some fish on them.  So on Saturday I went to my starting spot and ended up catching 7 keepers here and had a limit by 646am ! I then just kept hitting my other areas throughout the day and caught at least 10 keepers but, could not get a big bite (6 or 7lb) to push me on up over 20lb, but hey I had an incredible day, I probably caught at least 100 fish. I was throwing crankbaits on a Powell Endurance 706cb, 804cb, and a Powell Max 804cb, with Lews Tournament Speed Spool Series reels in 6:4:1 and 5:4:1 gear ratio.  I just thank the Lord for Blessing me once again with another good finish, without him I couldn't have done it !

GOD Bless

Joel

Bass Weekend Series....

I fished a Bass Weekend Series event on Kentucky Lake this weekend and ended up finishing 6th place with 17.61 pounds.  I went down on Thursday and found that one school of fish me and Doug had  in the Jet A Marina Tournament were still there.   So I went looking for some other fish and had some luck.  So on Friday my buddy Doug came down with me and we started out the day with a good run to check an area we thought would be good ,but didn't have much luck.  So we worked our way back to the ramp and ended up catching some more fish, but no big schools in any of these areas.  We did catch a good 4.5 to 5lber off one spot, where we had a boat a little close to us so we didn't fish this long and just unhooked this fish in the water.  So on Saturday I got to my starting spot and a boat was a little to close for me to pull in there, so we waited and they finally moved and I got on it, but the school wasn't there or not biting so we left.  The next stop was where we unhooked the fish and me and my co angler ended up catching 7 keepers here and I had my biggest 3 fish from here.  We kept moving around and I decided to go back to my starting spot and we ended up both culling up here.  I was throwing crankbaits on a Powell endurance 706cb, 804cb, and a Powell max series 804cb, with Lews Tournament speed spool series reels  I just thank the Lord for blessing me once again with a good bag of fish. 

GOD Bless

Joel

Another Good Tourney....

     Me and my partner Doug fished the Jet A Marine Classic yesterday on Kentucky Lake and ended up 4th place out of 312 boats.  We had a limit that weighed 20lb 14 oz and had a smallmouth that was 4lb 6 oz.  We just had an awesome day of fishing, we caught  at least 15 keepers and probably at least 80 fish.  We went down on Thursday and Friday to practice and found some more areas like I had the week before in the BFL.  So we thought we might have a chance to catch a decent bag.  At our first stop we caught a limit and culled several times and had about 17lb here.  We then moved to some other areas we had and ended up culling up to our final weight.  We threw crankbaits on Powell Endurance 706cb rods with Lews Tournament Speed spool series reels in a 6:4:1 ratio.     

 

I would like to thank the Lord for blessing us again this weekend and keeping us safe as there were several storms coming through.

GOD Bless

Joel

Unbelievable....

    The title says it all,  I was Blessed by the Lord yesterday and WON the BFL on Kentucky Lake !  I had 18lb 3oz , but I did not think that would hold out, I mean this is Kentucky Lake and usually 20lbs is what is needed to win any event on this lake.  I started practice on Wednesday with my buddy Doug and I had decided I was not going to fish for these lil green monsters in the back, as it had burned me for the past 3 years .  So we started farther out and got on some fish in 8 to 12 foot.  Thursday we found 3 more places that had some schools of fish on them.  So I had about 5 schools found and on Friday we had some bad weather coming in and didnt get to get out until about 10am and decided to fish a different area to see if we could anything else going and we ended up finding 1 place that had some fish.  So Saturday I was boat 22 and we went to the first place and no fish.  So I went to my areas I found on Wednesday and Thursday.  On the first one I caught a 4.5 lb largemouth.  Next stop I  filled out my limit and it was only 830 !  I culled up to my 18 3 at 915 and that was all I could do.  So I went looking for a 5 to 6lber for a kicker the rest of the day but could not find one.  I was throwing crankbaits on a Powell Endurance Series 706cb, Powell Max Series 753cb, Lews tournament speed spool 6:4:1 ratio.  I thank the Lord for blessing me yesterday and my good friend Duke Jenkel on the last event, where he won.

 

GOD Bless

Joel

BFL and Everstart....

     Just got home from basically fishing for 2 weeks straight.  Started prefishing for the BFL on 3/23/11, my buddy Paul went with me and we ended up the day with about 16 lb.  The next 2 days Doug went with me and we managed to catch some more fish, but not really much of a pattern to anything.  Tournament day I went to areas where I had some fish, but all those ares were dried up, so we ran some other things and managed to catch 1 keeper and ended up in 84th place. 

On Monday the 28th started practicing for the everstart and had a pretty decent day caught 16lb with my best 5 fish.  Then Tuesday was not very productive, couldn't get anything going today like we did the day before, as we thought we had  something figured out late in the day on Monday ,but it didn't pay off.  So Wednesday we went to Barkley Lake to see what was going on over there, and by 11am had 4 keepers and somewhat of a pattern going and had 2 bays where there were groups of fish, but as my luck had been going it didn't work out on day one I only had 1 3lber and a lot of ground to make up on day 2.  Day 2 I stayed on Kentucky and just started over and by 8am I had 1 keeper and had caught several fish, so I kept moving around and ended up with 2 keepers and lost a big one and 2 other good keepers on a crankbait.  So I just had some bad luck all around for the last 2 weeks.  I was throwing the crankbaits on Powell 703cb and 753cb rods and the jerkbaits were on a 686cb rod.  The reels were Lews Tournament speed spool series 6:4:1 gear ratio.,


GOD Bless

Joel

Murray Rotary Club Tournament at Kentucky......

     Well me and my buddy Doug decided yesterday about noon to fish this event after we had caught about 20lbs and had a little something going, thanks to a good friend of ours.  So we started off this morning on our first spot and we boated a keeper in the first 5 casts and we ended up catching another keeper and some more shorties here.  Our next spot we caught several keepers and shorties, it was here we caught a couple key fish a 5lb14oz and a 4.5lber.  Then our next spot we caught another 5.5lber and some other keepers that would not help, so we ended up with 21 lb 7 oz and 4th place.  I was using Powell Rods and Lews reels.  As far as patterns and baits I am not at liberty to say as I have events coming up the next 2 weekends and I was asked not to say how I was catching them. 

 

GOD Bless

Joel

1st Everstart at Lake of The Ozarks....

  Got to Lake of The Ozark's (LOZ) on Sunday the 6th about noon and began fishing and had a keeper in the first 1/2 hour !  So I moved to another point and caught another keeper and thought this might hold up and ran some more points with some luck, but also bluff 's in between points with a good drop on the and caught fish here to and had 7 keepers on Sunday and about 16lb with 5, so not a bad start.  The next 3 days I tried running the same deal and caught some but not that consistent.  I ran to the Niaguga arm 1 day and it was just muddy!  Got out of there and found some clear water and caught a couple keepers pretty quick on jerk baits on transition banks.  Day 1 I had an area where I caught 5 keepers down a 250 yard stretch and started here,  no keepers so we kept moving around my ares and by the end of the day I had 2 keepers and my co-angler had a limit of 12lbs !  It was just his day to catch them, I would throw up to the spot and catch a shortie and he would catch a keeper !  This happened all day long.  Day 2 I went back to those same areas and caught a 4lber in the first hour n half and was hoping I was gonna get them today but it was another struggle for me.  I managed 2 keepers for 5lb 11 oz and lost a mule on the jerk bait that would have moved me up about 20 to 25 places.  I was throwing Lew's speed spool reels (6:4:1) and Powell rods 684cb,  686cb, 703cb, 753cb on 10 and 12 lb fluorocarbon line.  Also a 705 jig rod, with a War Eagle Heavy cover finesse jig with a Go2baits trailer and a Lew's Speed Spool 6:4:1, with 15lb fluorocarbon line.  I ended up in 97th place and got some points toward the championship at Kentucky Lake.  Below are pictures of the baits and Rods used :

                

GOD Bless

Joel

BFL 3/5/2011

Well in practice we found 2 good schools of fish on the main river that were holding on 2 points. We also found some other points with fish, but did not have the schools.  All the fish were caught on jerkbaits and crankbaits, but the better ones were on the jerkbait.  So I got on my first spot and there was a boat there , so we went behind them and nothing but short fish, then to second stop and we caught some short fish and then I caught 2 keepers here.  We moved around the rest of the day and it was a struggle to stay out on main points with a 30mph wind so we had to abandon that and I went to a place where I have caught some just inside a bay and I caught 1 more keeper and that gave me 10lb 1 oz with 3 fish and 27th place so not a bad start to the year.  I was throwing the jerkbait on a Powell spinning rod with 10lb flourocarbon line.


GOD Bless

Joel