Lost, Lost and More LOST!!!

[BillDay]

Fished a tournament at Cumberland Sunday. It was a wekend of LOSSES!

Heres how it went.

Sunglasses broke on the way down to the lake. Bought a new pair $15 at the BP in Russell Springs. Blast off on Sunday morning and glasses blew off during the first two minutes! Loss number 1.

Get to a good Smallmouth bank, fish it for about 10 minutes, get a bite on a jig in 18 feet of water, set the hook, biggest SM I've had on in a while. I cannot turn her and just let her pull against the rod. She climbs up the water column and gets to the surface, shakes her head, boils and comes off. Loss number 2.

After getting utterly aggravated that the fish we were catching for the past month or so have dissappeared (except for the one that got away of course), we move to several areas of the lake and try to put something together. Ted, my partner, is a nicotene fiend and has to smoke every few minutes. He pulls his $25 lighter out with cold fingers, fumbles with it and it drops over the side of the boat into the water. Loss number 3.

Well we totally sucked for the rest of the day. Decided to quit 45 minutes early to avoid the brain damage of a big weigh in with only one little KY to show for our efforts. I decide to turn the big 250 loose on the way in and hit a boat wake. I thought I'd be cool and show Ted how these new Rangers take the rough stuff and didn't even lift for the upcoming wake. Slap, Slap, Slap, and out goes Ted's tackle bag over the back of the boat and into the water! Loss number 4. It had everything in it....I do mean EVERYTHING including Ted's back pain medicine. So we spin around and race back to where it went in and got to it before it sank. SAVE number 1!

So we get to the ramp, avoid the other guys in the tournament and high tale it out of there before anyone gets to ask the painful question of "How'd yall do?".

On the way home, we have managed to avoid the ' well it's all your fault" argument that usually occurs after two guys stink up a tournament and we are getting over things pretty well until we tune in to the UK game and listen as the cats get their feelings hurt just like we did. Loss number 4.

Fishing sure is a humbling sport.

I think I'll get my golf clubs out earlier this year. I'll probably lose all my balls on the front nine. Oh well.

Bill

[ChampioNinKYJerryCole]

Hey Bill we all have Bad Days. The bad ones make the good ones BETTER!

Jerry

[rudeZ20]

Hey Bill,

Take up basket weaving. Its cheaper!

Marty

[Danny]

Hey Bill,

Feel for you. Still, it was a better day than I had on the lake...... I never made it to the lake.

Also, a new ranger!!!

I'm thrilled to have my boat, don't get me wrong, but we would all like new boats every year.... LOL

Last observation.... I had to give up golf when I took up fishing. Both are expensive, both are very time consuming (at least for me), so you still seem pretty lucky to me!!! ha ha

Of course I'm one of those guys who really gets my money worth out of golf. I figure the more swings I take, it means the more swings per buck... and I am very frugal!!! A good day on the links for me is when I find more balls than I lose. Which rarely happens, except when I accidentally hit onto an adjacent fairway. Amazing how many balls I find out there in the wide open... LOL

Better luck next time Bill.

Danny

[BillDay]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'll get em next time.

[dpage70]

Dont feel bad man i fished for a few hours saturday. put the boat in at 1 PM got to the creek saw shad flipping everywhere and decided to start with an Xrap. 2nd cast i got slammed set the hook and the drag is set so loose i get a huge backlash. I forgot to tighten it after my last trip. got the hookset anyway and the rod doubles, i'm thinking WHALE. pulling like nobody's business. fight it for a few and i realize that it isnt coming to the top. cold water bass maybe? nope 2 1/2 lb white bass. freakin huge fish but sure wasnt what i was looking for. about a half hour later a headache starts and 30 minutes after that it turns into a migrane and i'm thowing up all over the lake on the way back to the ramp lol. if anyone was at moutardier saturday and saw that sorry if it made you sick lol.

[MarkW]

See Bill,
When I saw you Sat. night and we talked, I should have talked you into fishing the other tournament. That one spot would have went a good little ways. It sure was tough out there. I only had one smallmouth in about 15 feet of water and it was only 15"---so one spot would have done me good. I missed a a couple bites and not really happy about that. The bite was real light and most of the time it happened so fat, you didn't know what happened til it was over.

[BillDay]

"most of the time it happened so fast, you didn't know what happened til it was over."

Hmmmmm.....sounds like my wife's version of our love life, LOL!

The worst thing about that spot was that it was 11 inches long. They allow 10" spots in the Toyota tourney. So, I'm headed to the driving range.
Bill

[MarkW]

Hey---KY Derby comes to mind----they say that's the fastest sport---LOL!!!!

[SlopFishin]

Sounds like you had some darn bad luck. I've had days like that myself. Like the day last year when I fell out of a buddy's boat (for some weird reason this thing has a tiny...I mean TINY...back deck) and later got a crankbait stuck in my back when he decided to give the mother of all hooksets to a fish right at the boat.

One more thing, you might want to take it easy on the wakes for your passenger's sake. Drivers ususally don't feel the hard slapping and bumping as much as the passengers do. There's my lecture for the day. LOL

[smljaw]

Ouch! I've been there, man. I feel your pain. Kind of makes you want to take up bowling or something... Better luck next time, my friend.

[BillDay]

Pro wannabe....that's me!