Fishtails

Hey Tom, I didn't write those proverbs, just passed them along...... Don't condem me for having an opinion. Is it possible you're confusing pride with self-esteem and confusing self-esteem with moral beliefs?

I have and will continue to take a back seat approach on this, even though I do harbor strong opinions on the subject. We all know It's a loose - loose situation and I have heard from a source I believe, that there is much more to this story that what has been put before us here on Lou. This should never have become so public and personal. I to, am very proud Tom. It's the way I was raised, but I also have learned from my fathers mistakes. Pride impedes progress and mars greatness. Some proverbs I have often called upon in my life: "When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom." "Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom." "A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor." "We might not see it but the next step that comes after pride is a huge fall. Watch your own heart; keep it within the right boundaries!"

Good job guys Ya had fun and that's the important part. The teams that have fun always win, even when they don't collect a check. You guys cashed a check so that's even better

Yeah, I even had a long talk with the wife about it yesterday and she just looked at me with one of those "I've heard this crap before" grins She ain't buying it. Jeff and I will work through it in the off season and figure out what we want to do. I have no doubt I'll be fishing the Pro Am's.....just not sure it will be my team or on another ?? Nick, If I was smarter than I am I would have taken your advise when you called and stayed in tight. I didn't, and went out deep looking for sharks. Like you, I'm a king fishermen and can't stand a whole weekend of BT fishing. I agree with you bud, 8 to 10 out @ 200 without a doubt. It was nasty!! We even ran west in them once and re-set cause we were past the port and would have been in Fairhaven by 12:00. See you all at the LSRC this weekend

Nice job Ray!

Nice seeing you again also Anthony!! I know what you're saying and time will tell Jeff, but I know I won't do 4 on my boat and use my rv. It's to much work moving all the equipment around and being the boat owner. I guess ya never know what will happen between then and now It was good hanging with you guys as always! Congrats to Spoonfed's Glen and Chris on their win and the summer of a lifetime They put together one amazing season!

Well, yesterday wrapped up the 2010 Pro Am season and for the first time since I started fishing them I must say that I am glad they are over! What an exausting season and I'm looking forward to just fishing for fun again! My teammates Jeff Jackson and Rollie Conner both did a great job this year, and I feel sometimes having three good fishermen on the team hurt us as much as it helped, as I know we often times had to many cooks in the kitchen. The Pro Am's are great events and I love to fish them, but I have found after three full seasons (and I bet many teams will agree) that keeping everyone on the team content is virtually impossible and at times becomes a major distraction!! We may scale back to two events (or less) next year to focus on having more fun! I want to thank Jeff for being like a brother to me, and to Rollie for "tolerating" me Also...we had GREAT observers this year! Thank you Mike and Jay.....hope you guys had a good time fishing with us on Friday and observing Report: I prefished Wed and Thurs for kings, mostly by myself and found a nice pod of majors a few miles west of port and picked up 6 kings between 19 and 25lbs. On Pre fish Friday, we headed for browns right away due to the low numbers of kings. We picked a few pretty quick, so we felt good about them and decided to go for a big box of kings for the Friday derby. We found plenty of small kings, but couldn't get a major to go untill 11am. Our first major king (21+lbs) was on the wire rod with the dipsey set at 250 on a #1 setting pulling a black/green spinnie and a Big Weenie goat pecker fly over 180 fow. That same combo took two more major hits, but unfortunately we dropped them both We finished with 60 pts and in the top 10, but a couple places short of the $$. Sat: Day one of the Pro Am, I decided this event I was gonna take charge a little more with team decisions and decided to go for browns mostly because there were minimal numbers of kings around. We headed west a few miles and set up in 55 fow. I found warmer water than the day before so I trolled a bit fast to get us deeper and find better temp. That faster clip got us a couple small kings that ended up hurting our final box weight....bad decision Rod!! Anyhow, we got out to 80 fow and rods started popping with browns. Different color spoons took fish, but black/ green with a white back was the main killer. At 6:45 am we put or 7th fish in the cooler and I definitly would have boxed out by 7 am so we pulled lines to go king searching. We ran to my waypoints and began searching, but couldn't get a bite out deep. My buddy Nick was struggling out there to, so at 10 am I decided to head back in for my two browns cause I knew they were getting hammered hard and may shut down! We set up and within 20 min we were done with our 9 fish limit and headed in with our 131 point box. Day 2, we were in 6th place with Fishful thinking sitting on top 17 points ahead of us. It was snotty and our brown bite was not there early. It seems I motored over them, and we just couldn't get a program going so I decided to head deep for kings & steelies. Well, it was majorly rough out deep! We hit a double with steelies over 160 and doubled on browns over 148 but just couldn't circle around to hit those spots again so we ended with 4 fish day 2 and that left us in 8th place with 191 points overall. It was my decision to fish deeper water for the kings on Sunday with a go big or go home attitude and it didn't work out as good as I'd hoped. I should have hung in there with the browns and try out the water Rollie suggested we look at, but that's fishin I suppose. It was just to rough to pick up and run around searching. Our hot spoons were DW Dave's salmon slapper, black ice, black/ green. Our best flies were Big Weenie Goat Pecker, Big Weenie bone yodeler and the green dog.

Well, compared to some of the other tourney days we have had this year Nick....it was GREAT weather. I'll take steady 3 footers over 6-8's all day long Hey...I have been meaning to get in touch with you today. Got your message last night (I was having phone issues) I'll be in touch. I arrive in Sodus Wed. Morning.

Well, you know it wasn't me Paul Seriously though....that's pretty pathetic! Who would do such a thing??

Fantastic job Anthony!! A nicer guy couldn't be on top of the board and I heve my fingers crossed for you (unless I catch a bigger one of course...you're not THAT nice )

Congrats to everyone, at least mother nature gave us decent weather. Our team couldn't catch a cold and had our worse tournament ever! I made some bonehead choices & fished stupid, but at least Sodus gives us a chance for redemption. We did finish 7th in the Fat Nancy's shootout with 3 decent kings, but that was our only brite moment of the weekend. The future looks great for our fishery, but after catching 30 +++ short fish over the weekend and similar amounts in Orleans, I'm about sick of it !! Bring on the sharks in sodus !!!

John, If/when that happens again, take a wet cloth and drape it over the antenna. Your speed and temp should come back for awhile. It's a band aid till you fix the cause.

Jan, Yes, our team ran into that two years ago in Oswego. We ran it to Larry's first, then to the shootout, then back to Larry's for them to keep in the freezer.

I am very sorry to hear of this sad news Vince. My family wishes your family the best in these difficult times.

Thanks for the heads up Tom!

Yup...Big Weenie was the first to come out with the fine cut mylar flies ( we debuted them at the lotsa show) and A-Tom-Mik followed with the shredded version. I have several BW fine cut mylar fly patterns, the Blue Weenie was very good for us last week. Our boat has been running a lot of spoons so far, but as we run more flies in these upcoming weeks, I suspect the fine cut/shredded flies to be great producers!

We've agreed at least once Nick. I remember when we got to the dock in Sodus on day two of the Pro Am in 08, we both agreed we needed a beer

GREAT steelie Rich & great play by play as always.... I hope it holds up for you.

What....didn't I meet you? That's not you're name ? I met a Dick and I thought it was you....my bad!! You love to miss quote me, and you just did it again. Maybe you just don't pay attention, maybe you're just not very smart? Several of us suggested he may want to consider using BOTH....That gives him options and multiple name recognition. I run a business to, and I'm in tune with PR and public image. Dreamweaver uses both, as they use DW in much of their advertising, but Dreamweaver gets used a lot by them also. Northern King has the same deal with NK. It's smart business...thats all there is to what I said and I told Gary this on the phone a few days ago. It's so much easier typing BW in reports...he even uses it in his signature cause it's easier. Now help me out here Dick, Frank, Peter, or whatever your name is. You quoted me as saying: When did I ever say anything like that? Are you drinking again? You know how you get when you drink. That was (Nick)Bob's Boy who said that, but heck, I guess it's all the same to you, right ?

Already done Nick...kinda goes along with my personality, don't ya think ?

Will do Matthew Thanks Shadster. It was good to see you again. That was funny, wasn't it Once in a lifetime

I agree with ya Matthew, and I suggested to Gary he use BW a little more in his advertising to give him both options for times like this. He just likes to have a little fun, and I think some people need to loosen up a little. Then again, I don't wear my Big Weenie hat to school functions. A BW hat....now that I could wear ALL the time. It would be great to see them come out with both logos NK and DW are perfect examples!!! I spoke with Dave on the phone the other day about Justin's fish, and why he wouldn't include the Big Weenie Brand name. He was cool about it and I understand his position. It's always one or two who ruin it for everyone, and that's pretty much the case here. He's the one who has to deal with these complainers on the phone.

Great day on the water Brian! Congrats on the derby fish

That was the plan Brian, it just didn't seem worth the run for Saturday. Hey, nice job on the youth prizes and getting involved!!! If I can ever help out, let me know. Same here LS.....we'll see ya at the Pro Am's

Thanks Anthony. As he grows up, I know my days are getting fewer...I cherish them!! High Bidder, Henchen's said our king was only the third that came in there this season. The other two were 6lbs. I bet a lot of boats will start targeting them now that a bigger one came in, so there will probably be more reports coming in from that area.