Last week, I finished 9th place PAA tournament at Lake Lanier, GA. This week, I’m at Lake Pickwick Alabama for BASS Elite series. After 2 days practice I see lake level keep coming up. It is lightning and raining hard right now.
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Man, oh man! I love it when a plan comes together! I will admit I was a little concerned when I hooked up my boat this morning at 5 AM in a pouring rain and the exterior temp gauge on my truck reading 38 degrees.
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I’m always getting asked what it takes to make it as a pro bass angler. Well there is one thing that it takes that seems always to get overlooked in that “how-to” manual and that’s driving: lots and lots of driving!
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I could’t have scripted a better turkey hunt today! We went to a friends farm in Kentucky for the early youth hunt. My daughter thought it was so cool that we had to drive through a creek with the truck to get to our hunting spot.
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I actually had a Saturday at home! Since I rarely am home on the weekends when the kids are not doing school, I decided to spend some time with my oldest daughter, Reanna, while my youngest was taking her Saturday ice skating lesson.
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I had a chance to stop in to Bryan Equipment Sales training showroom to see my big Alaskan brown bear mount which was recently delivered. I took the bear with my bow in 2008 while filming a hunting show for Outdoor Channel.
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Lucky Craft fans all across the world~, it is time for the Daily Flash Minnow Report!

Continuing from last week, I had gone to the pier in Long Beach! Started my day at 6:30am and as the forecast said it was a sunny day! The highest temperature went up to 29℃ (84.2 F). At the pier, even in the early morning, there were already a lot of fishermen and the popular spots were taken by the time of my arrival. But there were still few spaces left and I was able to start casting with a FM110. Then I realized right below me was several flock of fishes! I thought I just might catch one today. However…while not being able to catch any, I observed my neighbors bait fishing carefully. If they weren’t able to catch any from bait fishing, I came to a conclusion that there probably aren’t any fishes below, so I decided to change locations!

Around 10 o’clock, there was barely any wind coming by and I decided to long cast in a very wide range from the beachside. I made sure to cast at the right timing by observing the wave movements, and cast behind the wave! Instead of aiming the very bottom, I tried to aim the upper surface to appeal the Flounders (Hirame)! I didn’t get any reaction from aiming 50cm from the surface with the FM110, so I changed it to the PT100 (White with yellow belly). With that I aimed from the bottom to the top. I continued to cast while traveling 3m, and as I was about 250m away from the parking lot, I suddenly got a hit!! I pulled quickly and then…!

It was a Flounder (Hirame)!! It was big and thick too!!! Is this my long desired legal size fish!? Full of hope, I carefully measured the Flounder… it was 53cm (21in) with just 1 inch short from being a legal size… so I decided to release it. “Tonight’s dinner mission” (Quoted by SHINGO) had to be carried over for next time.

Although from catching Flounder, I’m starting to understand more on how to catch them. I know now that it is good to have color on the lure belly, the aiming time is right around the approaching high tide, and lastly it is better when there is more water clarity.

P.S. The white hooded fisherman was also using the FM110 (Candy).

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