Fishing on a String Tournament Trails

The Bassmaster Weekend Series Came to Toledo Bend May 8th and with it came 76 Pro and Co anglers, the winner of the event on the pro side was Jason Robertson from Pinville La. who drug up a bag that weighed 20.76 pounds and his kicker was 5.61 pounds. Jason said he caught his fish on a Odem jig tippped with a Ultimate Bucketmouth kraw using braided line and a pesteside rod to catch his fish. Jason said he fished from 6 to 12 foot  and caught about 20 keepers during his day. Jason took home $8,062.00 for his win due to being Triton Gold qualified. Congratulation's Jason on your win.               

Well here goes, as you see in the photograph, I got lucky and caught a really nice fish on Saturday, but here is the kicker, the tournament was over for the day.  I went out with pro angler Brian Kanke who is the owner of Bent Rod Tackle Group, which have put out Ultimate Bucketmouth Baits. Brian asked me if I would like to go ride with him for a minute, while he checked a few places for an upcoming tournament. I said why not, well as luck would have it, we pull up on a spot and Brian said he just wanted to check it out for a few cast's and we would be gone. As he was getting his rod out he asked if I wanted to throw a few times as well, I told him sure why not, but with my luck I will probably stick the fish I need tommrow. Brian handed me a rod that had a shaky head tied on and on it was a Mr. Ugly I believe in  pumpkin geen flake. Brian looked at the water and said it looked stained so he took the bait off and put on the green pumpkin purple flake. I throwed out about 2 times and caught a small kentucky. Brian decided to throw a texas rig ugly craw green pumpkin purple flake. and caught about four fish in a short time. I had stuck one to deep and had to have Brian help get the hook out without killing it, after getting re rigged Brian handed me some of his Live Jive Juice and told me to add it to the bait. Now I have been using the juice for 2 day's already and have caught several fish but nothing that was going to get a check.  I finally throwed out and almost immediately felt a tap and thought it was another small kentucky, to my surprise it was this fish that had just inhaled my bait, I just started laughing and told Brian well I told you so, my luck right on track. We did not weigh the fish but I would bet it would have given the leader's a run for their money but such is life.   If you would like to see the baits we used click the link http://www.ultimatebucketmouth.com/baits.asp                                         

Aaron Johnson, who fished the boater side in this weekends bfl, came into the scales huffing and puffing as he carried his 21.03 pound bag up to the scales. Aaron took home $4,359.00 for his day on the water. You can see all the results by clicking the link   http://bfl.flwoutdoors.com/tournament.cfm?cid=2&t=results&tid=6426&mc=0 Sorry for such a short report but maybe the video will help answer what they did to catch their fish. This event drew 125 boaters and 125 co anglers         

Keith Melton who fished the co angler side of the bfl this weekend went home a lot richer, by taking home a very nice check worth $2,179.00. As I tryed to help Keith with his bag of fish, I could see his hands tremble, I told him he had it made now he could just relax, I don't think he quit shaking until he left this evening. Congratulations Keith       

The Texas Super Team Tournament Trail held their final '09 event this Sunday, and as the director stated "I guess we just pay to much back" This event only drew a 43 team field and paid out $21,500.00. The winning team of A.R. Johnson and Herb Newhouse came to the scales with a sack of fish that weighed 20.26 pounds ancored by the big bass of the event which weighed 8.63 pounds. The team took home $10,500 dollars for their efforts. To find out more about this trail please click the link    http://www.legendbassboats.com/index.php/texassuperteam.html    

First off I was not at the event in question, I did not witness what had occured, but I did find a link to the tournament web site that gave details of the infraction. Please click it and read the information.  http://www.budlighttrail.com/BLT/newsrelease.html  I also want to thank the tournament officials for doing a great job in keeping integrity in my favorite sport.

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