MAVERICK27
12-22-2008, 11:30 AM
Well, Here is my report from the weekend at the Vine Christmas Tournament. I already commented on the downs of the tourney on another thread. This is the ups!!! I had a bad weekend in the sense of amount of fish. I caught 2 Saturday and only 1 Sunday. However, I got to spend time with the family CRVZ and Christian and Chase (the babies) on Saturday on a beautiful lake with killer views, Sunday was fishing with Wes (Poxy Boggards) and my uncle and cousin. Wes did very well, he would have had his limit, but he let my little cousin reel one in with his rig....that was class..thanks WES! You made that kid's day. My uncle hooked in to a giant in Woody's cove, but it wrapped in the weeds and got the line stuck. Sunday we tied up to Rob (ROOSTER) and Roger (Yamafish) for a while. Great fishing with you guys, one of the highlights of the weekend. What a wealth of knowledge on that boat between the two of them. Nice boat too, looks like a fish killing machine! Thanks for the donuts and water!! So glad I hooked into one while you were there, the pressure was on and we were talking MUCH trash!!!
Troutdog, Hittson and Man Vs. Wild pulled up behind us and we were comparing notes on the day. Always good to see you guys...nice peeps!!
Saturday, CRVZ kicked my butt!! No doubt about that....BUT just as Jerry was coming toward us in the patrol boat to kick us off the water, CRVZ said "look at your rod". I was getting what seemed like small nibbles. I picked it up and quickly set the hook. Fish ON! I saw the fish partially boil and said "it looks small" then after a couple head tugs and I saw color, I quickly changed my tune. Now I hollered "Its pretty big, get the net" CRVZ says " yeah right!" That was probably because I did so horrible all day. She slowly strolls to the back of the boat and grabs the net. She then sees the fish and says "S*&%T, its huge!" Then the fish decides to fight a little and wrap around the anchor, in a feeble attempt at freeing himself. I managed to turn his head and bring him up and CRVZ nets it. The scale at the tackle shop says 4.6 Lbs. The only bummer was it didnt fight very hard because it was missing the tail! Very disappointing. That might have been a good thing though because I hooked it on my lightest rig, 5' tall very flexible with 4 lb test and a 2lb leader! You can see Troutdog, Hittson, and Man Vs. Wild on the rental behind me in the pics.
I told them "at least you got to see me catch a fish, so you believe my Posts" :ROFL:
Another highlight was one of my twins winning a Shakespeare reel at the raffle. I also won a rod stand and a knife sharpener! Thank you to the Vine for that!!
Here are some of the pics. enjoy!
CRVZ on the bow, complete with Christmas lights!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2402.jpg
The lunker hook-up site
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2403.jpg
Busy Shoreline!!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2404.jpg
Troutmatic on the slay! We watched him limit with a quickness, great job!!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2405.jpg
Snow on the mountains
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2407.jpg
The next three are of my tail-less trout and the boys in the background..
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2408.jpg
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2409.jpg
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2410.jpg
Troutdog, Hittson and Man Vs. Wild pulled up behind us and we were comparing notes on the day. Always good to see you guys...nice peeps!!
Saturday, CRVZ kicked my butt!! No doubt about that....BUT just as Jerry was coming toward us in the patrol boat to kick us off the water, CRVZ said "look at your rod". I was getting what seemed like small nibbles. I picked it up and quickly set the hook. Fish ON! I saw the fish partially boil and said "it looks small" then after a couple head tugs and I saw color, I quickly changed my tune. Now I hollered "Its pretty big, get the net" CRVZ says " yeah right!" That was probably because I did so horrible all day. She slowly strolls to the back of the boat and grabs the net. She then sees the fish and says "S*&%T, its huge!" Then the fish decides to fight a little and wrap around the anchor, in a feeble attempt at freeing himself. I managed to turn his head and bring him up and CRVZ nets it. The scale at the tackle shop says 4.6 Lbs. The only bummer was it didnt fight very hard because it was missing the tail! Very disappointing. That might have been a good thing though because I hooked it on my lightest rig, 5' tall very flexible with 4 lb test and a 2lb leader! You can see Troutdog, Hittson, and Man Vs. Wild on the rental behind me in the pics.
I told them "at least you got to see me catch a fish, so you believe my Posts" :ROFL:
Another highlight was one of my twins winning a Shakespeare reel at the raffle. I also won a rod stand and a knife sharpener! Thank you to the Vine for that!!
Here are some of the pics. enjoy!
CRVZ on the bow, complete with Christmas lights!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2402.jpg
The lunker hook-up site
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2403.jpg
Busy Shoreline!!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2404.jpg
Troutmatic on the slay! We watched him limit with a quickness, great job!!
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2405.jpg
Snow on the mountains
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2407.jpg
The next three are of my tail-less trout and the boys in the background..
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2408.jpg
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2409.jpg
http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp44/MAVERICKandCRVZ/IMG_2410.jpg