5th annual Freeze your bASS blast

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Permalink Reply by 0koeo85ldc9uf on February 22, 2011 at 8:33pm

 Hey all,

I stopped by the weigh-in and watched. It was a real nicely ran tournament. What depths were you all catching those fish? I don't have much experience catching small mouth and wouldnt know where to start. Just the way things worked out growing up.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 22, 2011 at 9:22pm

I can't speak for everyone, but it seamed like the bite was around 40 feet. It was really good early, we should have had a limit in an hour, but we had some equipment failures and some bad luck. Maybe 10 bites, 3 hookups and losses, and one caught in the first 2 or so hours. Bite really slowed down by late morning. Only got maybe 2-3 more bites and one more landed after 10:00am or so.



T-bone said:

 Hey all,

I stopped by the weigh-in and watched. It was a real nicely ran tournament. What depths were you all catching those fish? I don't have much experience catching small mouth and wouldnt know where to start. Just the way things worked out growing up.

Permalink Reply by 0koeo85ldc9uf on February 22, 2011 at 10:21pm

Man! Sounds tuff. Only boating 2 fish out of 13 bites. Were you breaking them off or something? Is that normal behavior for these fish in deep depths? Did try changing it up?

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 22, 2011 at 10:36pm

We did change a few things. Its not uncommon to get short bites. I had an anti-revearse bearing fail on a real while fighting a fish, and one shaking its head so hard I couldn't keep preasure on it. The fish faught hard for this time of year! I think the fish would pick up the bait and spit it as soon as they taisted the snot from my sick nose.... I was pretty sick, and might not have reacted as quickly as normal to some of the bites.

Permalink Reply by Pat on February 23, 2011 at 7:41am

excuses excuses excuses

why don't you just say it, youre not that good!

Aaron Christel said:

We did change a few things. Its not uncommon to get short bites. I had an anti-revearse bearing fail on a real while fighting a fish, and one shaking its head so hard I couldn't keep preasure on it. The fish faught hard for this time of year! I think the fish would pick up the bait and spit it as soon as they taisted the snot from my sick nose.... I was pretty sick, and might not have reacted as quickly as normal to some of the bites.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 23, 2011 at 11:02am

How did you finish Pat?

Permalink Reply by 0koeo85ldc9uf on February 23, 2011 at 12:00pm

Excuses? Or learning experiences? Thats why I asked aaron what he changed.
Aaron, what did you change? To pats credit, you did list excusses. What did you change to alter the outcome? Not trying to be a hard a$s on ya,but chalanging your above response may teach you something.
Pat, if your gonna call someone out, why don't you ask why people feel the need to mention how good they did in practice and did'nt even fish. Or the guy that said he spent too much time trying to screw another guy off his spot? Is that how you all do it out here?

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 23, 2011 at 12:35pm

Wow, ok.  Well, we did make some changes in bait size, scent and presentations.  We also moved locations and depths trying to find fish more apt to eat the bait.  I'm not going to give up too much info though. 

 

Every day on the water has it's own learning experiences.  Did I learn stuff on Saturday?  Yup, I always learn something.  But, one thing I have lerned over time is that you don't have 100% control of all the outcomes.  Thats what makes the sport great.  Are there things that we could have done better?  Sure.  But, it's just like baseball.  You can hit a hard line drive, but if there is someone there in the right place to catch the ball, it's still an out.  Fishing is a sport where things have to work out in your favor, and they don't always do that.  All you can do is put all your knowledge together to try and make the best outcome happen, and with the right preperation they will.  But, s*)#t happens...

 

By the way, anyone know where to order parts for a Shimano Stradic?   

T-bone said:

Excuses? Or learning experiences? Thats why I asked aaron what he changed.
Aaron, what did you change? To pats credit, you did list excusses. What did you change to alter the outcome? Not trying to be a hard a$s on ya,but chalanging your above response may teach you something.
Pat, if your gonna call someone out, why don't you ask why people feel the need to mention how good they did in practice and did'nt even fish. Or the guy that said he spent too much time trying to screw another guy off his spot? Is that how you all do it out here?

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 23, 2011 at 1:36pm

Cris, as much as I hate to say this, you are right.  I didn't win anything, so I shouldn't be the guy giving info up anyways.  I was just answering the depth question.  I didn't know that this site was designed to make Tag a better fisherman though. 

 

Maybe my answer should have been limited to "I can't speak for everyone, but it seamed like the bite was around 40 feet."

 

Cris, don't get a big head about me saying you are kind of right.  You are still a moron.

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on February 23, 2011 at 2:05pm

Aaron,

 

I learned something on Saturday as well.

 

The first thing I learned is that Bess's idea of fizzing the fish through the top of the head doesn't work; unless your goal is to kill the fish. He did catch the fish so he can fizz them any way he likes I suppose. I didn't think that .40 pounds of penalty would matter much anyway but as it turns out it took us from getting some lunch money to not.

 

The second thing I learned is that saving a stranded boat can also take you from being in the money to out of the money. That is if the boat you picked up had a better bag than you and you end up first out of the money.

 

One other tidbit I picked up is some guys are more appreciative of being picked up and cashing a check because of it than others.

 

I was kidding about Mike killing the fish. They did die but it certainly wasn't his fault.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on February 23, 2011 at 2:21pm

We had one croak too. I hate loosing a fish.

Josh Potter said:

Aaron,

 

I learned something on Saturday as well.

 

The first thing I learned is that Bess's idea of fizzing the fish through the top of the head doesn't work; unless your goal is to kill the fish. He did catch the fish so he can fizz them any way he likes I suppose. I didn't think that .40 pounds of penalty would matter much anyway but as it turns out it took us from getting some lunch money to not.

 

The second thing I learned is that saving a stranded boat can also take you from being in the money to out of the money. That is if the boat you picked up had a better bag than you and you end up first out of the money.

 

One other tidbit I picked up is some guys are more appreciative of being picked up and cashing a check because of it than others.

 

I was kidding about Mike killing the fish. They did die but it certainly wasn't his fault.

Permalink Reply by Pat on February 23, 2011 at 2:44pm

rookie mistake

Josh Potter said:

Aaron,

 

I learned something on Saturday as well.

 

The second thing I learned is that saving a stranded boat can also take you from being in the money to out of the money. That is if the boat you picked up had a better bag than you and you end up first out of the money.

 

 

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