I planned to go fishing on Halloween this year with a guy from my bass club on Lake Travis.  The primary purpose for the trip though wasn’t necessarily to fish.  I had to try and get my livewells operating since they were experiencing problems at the last tournament.  I figured if I had the boat in the water then I might as well let someone else spend some time fishing out of the front of the boat.   [Read more…]

I’ll make a quick post about how my last club tournament went on Lake LBJ back on October 25th.  Long story short, I got third, won a little cash, and gained some major ground in the point standings for the season.  Here’s the breakdown:

Pre-fishing: Generally speaking I like to give myself three days of pre-fishing before I fish any tournament.   [Read more…]

On October 10th I fished in the annual Fishing For Freedom tournament on Belton Lake.  This was a very exciting event for me because it was my first “big” tournament to participate in since getting home from my mission back in 2006.  I heard about this tournament from another angler in my club because the organizers were trying to rally up more boaters to fish in it.   [Read more…]

Well, here it is: my first post on the blog.  This could get interesting.  This post will be pretty well useless as I’m just doing it to try and get the feel for things here.  Basically this blog will be primarily devoted to all of my bass fishing tournament adventures and what all goes into it.  I’ll keep everyone updated on everything from the details of what goes into preparing for a tournament and then the final results of how each of them go.  Should be fun!   [Read more…]