Quote Originally Posted by demodan View Post
Great post smljaw, for the winter time cabin blue!
Demodan's tournament flurrys win-place-show

1) Falls of the Ohio - - - - - "BBBC tournament" - - - - - -For the win
It all started when "Dog and Money" (Big Dog calls me Money, becouse when Im his partner, ...we win money) ha ha.
This all started when fishing a Plapps River Rumble tournament togeather, in the summer of 06. We did well that blue bird day..we caught a small limit of smallies a couple of largemouths...over at the falls of the Ohio. We came in 7th place that day with just over 10 pounds..and won $900 bucks. But as we fished that day...I saw a 5 pound largemouth fallow my Crank Bait back to the boat...and we saw a competitor loose a bass that looked to be around 5+ on a jig! We knew that the Big Bass Big Cash tournament, sposored by the Ky. Resturant Assocation...was in just a few weeks. So we entered the tournament on it's final day ...Sunday; hoping that we can catch that 5 pounder, to win the 50 grand!...At 6:05 on tournament day...I rig up a buzzbait with a Gary Yamamoto salty grub, and a red trailer hook. Bass was busting shad all around us like crazy!!! On my first cast..I caught a 2.9lb largemouth...And on my 4th cast I catch a 5.18 Ohio River smallmouth of a life time...and we won $50,200.00 that day!!!!...Folks, that isn't the flurry! 11 month later...we fish all three days of the BBBC..in the first hour of the tournament on day one...same bat location..same type of bait...Big Dog hooks into that 5 pounder (4.71) largemouth;...it hold out to be the largest again for the tournament...and we take home another $20,000.00.
So in review....Within 11 months...we only fish a total of maybe 4 hours, in the Falls of the Ohio...catch 23.59 pounds of bass, both largmouths and smallies (counting the small limit we caught in the Plapps tournament)..and we won over $71,100.00 of tournament money!! That to me is a Flurry...And maybe one of the Greatest sporting events to hit Louisville in years...and it goes mostly unnoticed.
Kentucky Lake......Sportsman Marina Tournament....for the "place"
This tournament was the last weekend in March...going out of the Kentucky dam Marina.
It was cold and very very windy...water temp maybe just over 50 degrees. Wind blowing 20-30mph...So we forgo out spots on South Kentucky Lake..and we fish a little less than a mile from the marina...to get out of the wind. We kept saying to our selves...lets just have fun and go fishing today. We are forced to fish in areas we never fished...or at least haven't in years. In the last 4 hours of the tourmament, we get into a great crank bait bite in one small area...We catch 9 keepers...we cull two 3 pounders, never done that before..and we have close to 22 pounds of bass (5-fish limit)!!! We caught them all on what we call the Taylorsville Special CB (you will hear more on it on my "show" post). You can buy it at Wallyworld...but they stop making it in this color. I have only 4 left, and treasure them highly. Were thinking we have this tournament in the bag; to win over 10,000.00!!! A BFL tournament went out the weekend before..and with those guys...it took just 19lbs to win it all...So we were pummed up!!! We call our wives and my family in Hoptown...they all make the weigh in at 3pm. They all see us finish 6th place...we win only 700 bucks???!!! The winners of this tournament had the largest sack of smallies I've even seen in person at a weigh in. The had 28+ pounds of smallies, all over 5 pounds each!! All caught on the LBL said of Kentucky Lake...all on a Lucky Craft jerk bait dd. They claim they had 12 keepers....most all of them over 4lbs!!!