Havent been posting much lately but wanted to check in with the Outdoor Dawgs during this pandemic and catch yall up on whats been going on. First off, I hope everyone is safe and if anyone is effected, all my prayers go out. This has been crazy from a health and financial standpoint. Its touched everyone. Everyone hang in there.
Now to some fishing. I had a club tournament at Calling Panther and I had never fished it so I went a week ahead of time with the hopes of finding some bites so I could at least put up a respectable tournament. Man is that a beautiful lake. I found my most consistent bite to be on wacky rigged junebug senkos. Thats something I guessed...
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Now tournament time. There were actually 2 clubs lined up to fish and with all the bs the tournament was cancelled. One of the clubs had a bunch of guys show up for an ?unofficial? fruit jar tournament with big fish bonus. I went right to where I left off to try and get a limit (3 fish) and then pick up a frog to upgrade. Limit in 30 mins... Ended up catching 13 fish, all on the junebug senko. Nothing else. It was frontal conditions and it shut everything down on the power fishing side. I ended up getting my surprise of the day with a almost 25 inch 7.84 tank later in the day. That fish won me big fish but I lost the overall by 4ish inches. I do take some solace in the fact that the guy who beat me was leading the yak division of the Bassmasters a cpl weeks ago ultimately finishing 13th. Overall great experience at a great MS public lake.
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In the meantime Ive been fishing roadside on the Trace everyday for like 15 mins before work. Trying to stay sane. That has landed me fish every single day, mostly dinks but I have got a bowfin and a couple crappie & bream on senkos.
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Today I went to PBay and it felt like a new fishery with all the pads gone from the sylvania spraying for a year and a half. Caught 5 solid fish. 1 on a frog, 1 pitchin a googan bandito bug in heavy cover, and 3 on senkos. Another solid outing. Was my first pitchin/flippin fish from kayak
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Hope everyone is well. See y?all on the water. Tight lines