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FLW Open – Potomac River, MD
FLW Open #2
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Skeet’s Beat – Little Rock, Big River
We had a lot of water to cover during the Arkansas River tournament. I’m happy to say that it felt good to catch ‘em a little bit better than I had for most of the season. Comments Off on Skeet’s Beat – Little Rock, Big River
H-1 Grand Prix Winning Lure
This time, I researched a little bit about the recent H-1 Grand Prix tournament winning lure, “Chimushi” brand – the “Kaiba” lure. What is this!!?? It already looks like it fishes well!! This shape and the sense of volume! To say it in one phrase: “manly fishing”. This lure seems to work very well for a one fine fishing. I’m very impressed with the lure-man’s sense of design – creating an amazing lure with such simple design. For more information on this lure, please check out the link below. http://www.chimushi.com/lures/kaiba/page01.html
Red River Round Up
Brent Ehrler Blog The FLW Tour Red River event just wrapped up and I’m happy with a top ten finish. This was my second trip to the Red River. Last year we practiced for 3 days and then the event was cancelled. My pattern for the event was flipping and cranking. My flipping rig was the Yamamoto Flappin’ hog with a Picasso 3/8ths ounce tungsten weight and a 3/0 Owner hook. When it came to cranking I had my favorite two baits tied on, the Lucky Craft RC 1.5 and a BDS 1 Crankbait in a variety of shad patterned colors. One thing I can say about the Red River is that is a “snakey” place. I saw at least 5 snakes a day. I had one eat a frog, but I didn’t hook it. Several times I had a snake swim right to the boat and try to climb in. There was a five footer that was 40 or 50 feet away and when it saw us it made a b-line for us. I had to swat the water in front of him with my rod to keep it from coming into the boat. Now I don’t know the difference between a water snake and a moccasin, but in my opinion they all look venomous when they are swimming at you. The Red River is a true test to all of your equipment. It’s the “stumpiest”, “snagiest” place you will ever be. I can’t tell you how many times I got stuck. I’d get stuck where my motor was completely out of the water. You’d literally have to rock the boat just to get the motor into the water. Other times I was trying to get into a backwater, I’d hve to trim my motor down into the water and plow my way back into places I probably shouldn’t be. I really felt like I was in a jeep and I could get through anything. Running the River itself is pretty dangerous as well. I used my 1197 Humminbird zoomed out and I’d literally follow the track line on the screen to navigate through some very narrow channels. I didn’t use the side imaging much in this event due to the depth and water clarity I was fishing in, but that giant screen and GPS definitely came in handy. I’m up at Kentucky Lake pre-practicing for the event here in late June. I’ll fish here for a couple days before I head out to the Potomac River for the FLW Open event, practice starts on Sunday. It fishes pretty similar to the Delta, except it has a smaller tidal change. At the Potomac the water level changes 1.5-2 feet while the California Delta has a 3 foot tidal change, give or take a few inches. The primary fishing style is flipping into the pockets of grass at low tide and at high tide I’ll do some shallow cranking. I’ve been to the Potomac a few times and haven’t done exceptionally well there. I did learn a lot from those trips and I think I have a better chance now that I have better feel for it. Also, since those events on the Potomac I have fished the California Delta quite a bit and have gotten better in that type of water. Looking ahead, it looks like I will be fishing similarly to how I did at the Red River, flipping and shallow cranking. I might able to get a few frog fish as well. Following the Potomac event I am fishing a Celebrity event for Yamamoto at Old Hickory in Nashville with some Country music stars. Currently I sit in fourth place for the FLW Tour AOY race with two events left. Unfortunately, the postponed event from earlier this year has been moved to right on top of the date our baby is due. That could make for an interesting dilemma. If I have a realistic chance for the AOY title and our baby doesn’t come a little early I might not be able to fish that event. I hope it all works out. H-1 GPX
This is a quick report about the H-1 Grand Prix which was held in Japan this past weekend. On May 22nd, Sunday, there very first H-1 Grand Prix competition sponsored by Mr. Mitsuo Suzuki was held. Even in the sprinkling rain, I heard it became such an exciting tournament maybe because it was a hardbait only competition. I will post up images of the day very shortly. http://www.h1gpx.com/ Casey Ashley Wins!!
Lucky Craft Pro Casey Ashley won the Evan Williams Bourbon Carolina Clash on Lake Murray this past weekend. This win for Casey was in front of his family and friends as he lives just two hours away in Donalds, South Carolina. Tournament Results – PAA All Star Series
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Tournament Results – Toledo Bend
Trokar Battle on the Bayou Day 1 Results: 5 fish – 19lbs, 3oz Totals: 13 Fish – 43lbs, 7oz Current AOY points: 640 – 63rd place Ushiku-numa Charity TournamentOn April 10th, I had gone to the “Tamaya Boat” in Ushiku-numa, Japan to help out with the charity tournament for the earthquake disaster of Japan. Since it was a charity event, I was a little worried to how many anglers would participate in this tournament. But it had exceeded my expectation of 52 participants and I was so thankful for their love for Ushiku-numa and their kind hearts. As for the result, my not-so-good apprentice and my very good apprentice had won 1st and 2nd place!… So it came out to be a bit embarrassing result, but it also meant that the fishing pattern I had build and used at the pre-spawn Ushiku-numa was a very strong one and my apprentices had proved it for me. The donations from this charity event will be handed to all the children who had lost their parents from the disaster! A week ago, on April 3rd, a boy came to visit me at my shop. He had told me he came from Minami Souma, Fukushima prefecture where it was actually one of the major areas that was affected by the earthquake and tsunami! Where I live in Toride, Ibaraki and the Minami Souma District in Fukushima prefecture formally has alliance for time of disaster. So the day after the earthquake on March 12th, the firefighters drove a large-scale bus to the Minami Souma district to take everyone who lost their homes to the Toride city high school gymnasiums and welfare halls. And for the people who were less than 20km close to the nuclear power plant also had to evacuate to the athlete lodging in Toride velodrome. The boy who visited me was one of the many disaster victims and his house was destroyed by the earthquake and his grandmother’s house was washed away by the tsunami. He had time to grab only his very important Bass tackles to evacuate. At last year’s Yokohama fishing show, he received a lure and DVD at my training session/presentation and he had become my fan ever since! He asked around a lot to find out where my shop was and came all the way here with his grandmother just to visit me. Looking to TomorrowTough day today! I caught pretty much the same number of fish today as I did on my practice days, about 12 or so, but I just didn’t have quite the average size. The water continues to fall, leaving a lot of the cover I’m fishing too shallow to be productive now. Comments Off on Looking to Tomorrow
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