russ010
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I haven't been on in the last few days because most of my time has been spent on the water and in the bed. Friday night a buddy of mine and I went out to Carter's Re-Regulation pool to do some prefishing for his tournament that occurred last night. We didn't fish the tourney together, but I fished with another guy.
Friday night was the best fishing I had had all year. Our best 5 went around 12lbs, and I think we had about 10, almost all were keepers. The guy I'm fishing with is a member of tinboats (I think his screen name would be MerkyWaters), but I'm not positive that's him.
I think my best 5 went around 8lbs, and for the life of me I can't remember any of their weights, but I know 3 of them were over 2lbs.. and he caught the biggest at 3.14. We started fishing around 7pm and quit at 3am. Needless to say, I hit the bed hard when I got home and planned to sleep til atleast 11, but like clock work, people started calling at 9am and I was up.
Last night was their tournament.. They only had 5 boats show up, but it was still a good gathering. We fished 6:30pm - 1:30am. And just like the night before, atleast for me, they were still shallow (3-8') and on rocks. If I'm not mistaken, we've had a full moon, and last night was the 3rd night after the full moon which from everything I've ever heard, the best fishing is 3 days before and 3 days after that phase. The full moon in July is when I've heard that the crawfish hatch their eggs... needless to say, I threw jigs all night long both nights, and it paid off. We ended up winning the tournament with 5 fish, and those best 5 went for 8.66lbs. 2nd place came in at 8lbs flat, but they had a hawg - 5.99lbs.... but they only had 3 fish. They had a HUGE crawfish in their livewell that I'm pretty sure that big boy regurgitated. It was probably 5-6" long and it was green. Same thing I was using. You can check out the SWAT guys tournament page to see a pic of our fish. I had about 6 fish all night, with 4 keepers. My partner I think had 4 fish, with 2 keepers that we weighed in. The ones I caught were 2.6, 2.4 and 2lbs - with 2 of those being largemouth (I'm holding them in the pics) and Kevin is holding the larger spot (this is a lake known for spots). You can see pics of the fish we caught and all here -https://smallwateranglerteams.webs.com/cartersrereg71809.htm. I'll try to get a bigger pic, or maybe merkywaters can post it. You'll see the winners say Kevin and Dustin - well, I was Dustin since he couldn't fish it.
Here are updated pics from the night...
Friday night was the best fishing I had had all year. Our best 5 went around 12lbs, and I think we had about 10, almost all were keepers. The guy I'm fishing with is a member of tinboats (I think his screen name would be MerkyWaters), but I'm not positive that's him.
I think my best 5 went around 8lbs, and for the life of me I can't remember any of their weights, but I know 3 of them were over 2lbs.. and he caught the biggest at 3.14. We started fishing around 7pm and quit at 3am. Needless to say, I hit the bed hard when I got home and planned to sleep til atleast 11, but like clock work, people started calling at 9am and I was up.
Last night was their tournament.. They only had 5 boats show up, but it was still a good gathering. We fished 6:30pm - 1:30am. And just like the night before, atleast for me, they were still shallow (3-8') and on rocks. If I'm not mistaken, we've had a full moon, and last night was the 3rd night after the full moon which from everything I've ever heard, the best fishing is 3 days before and 3 days after that phase. The full moon in July is when I've heard that the crawfish hatch their eggs... needless to say, I threw jigs all night long both nights, and it paid off. We ended up winning the tournament with 5 fish, and those best 5 went for 8.66lbs. 2nd place came in at 8lbs flat, but they had a hawg - 5.99lbs.... but they only had 3 fish. They had a HUGE crawfish in their livewell that I'm pretty sure that big boy regurgitated. It was probably 5-6" long and it was green. Same thing I was using. You can check out the SWAT guys tournament page to see a pic of our fish. I had about 6 fish all night, with 4 keepers. My partner I think had 4 fish, with 2 keepers that we weighed in. The ones I caught were 2.6, 2.4 and 2lbs - with 2 of those being largemouth (I'm holding them in the pics) and Kevin is holding the larger spot (this is a lake known for spots). You can see pics of the fish we caught and all here -https://smallwateranglerteams.webs.com/cartersrereg71809.htm. I'll try to get a bigger pic, or maybe merkywaters can post it. You'll see the winners say Kevin and Dustin - well, I was Dustin since he couldn't fish it.
Here are updated pics from the night...
