The regular season for the Illini division of the BFL is over, it almost ended with a bang! I pulled off a very respectable 3rd place finish. Which moved me up another 15 places in the points race and qualified me for the BFL regional on Lake Cherokee the first week of October. Despite having what I considered a very poor practice, I was fortunate enough to put together a pattern that at best I thought had "some potential". As it turns out, the more I fished on day one of the tournament and expanded on what I had found, I realized that I was definitely on to a little bit of something. I managed to catch four keepers on day one that weighed 6lbs 7ozs, good enough for 8th place. The top ten finishers from day 1 qualified to fish again on day two. I expanded further on my little pattern on day 2 and managed four more keepers that weighed 7lbs 3ozs. I jumped an amazing five places on day 2 to finish the event in 3rd place. That's a great finish for me on Lake Shelbyville, I've always said it's my arch nemesis of lakes. Looks like I won this round! Hallelujah! lol.
Here are few pics form the event. I'd like to show you more pictures of the baits I used to catch them, but I had one rod in my hand for this whole event, minus a few failed attempts to get a bite on other baits. So, here is a pic of the one and only I bait I caught them on:
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Yep, you guessed it, the ol' Shakee head, a 1/8ths oz fished on 8lb Seaguar
fluorocarbon using a Powell spinning rod model 703 MEF |
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| Hardware!! |
Always remember, in a tough tournament (low weight or tough bite) a finesse approach is hard to beat, it may not be the way to win a tournament, but it will definitely generate bites!
God Bless,
Duke
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