LOCAL CLUBS...JUNE 2010 so far

JUL 12...YUCATAN....$100 entry a boat 1-2, fish 15 minutes before sunrise to 3pm, weigh at Surplus City Landing, $20 BB, off limits M-F, any landing, contact Travis 318-805-2952. (Lopez Memorial)
JUL 16...7pm ease off? DBC Night T on lake TBA (probably LSJ)...
JUL 17...5:52am jailbreak...
JUL 24...5:56am jailbreak...BBA on lake TBA**;Sunshine Benefit (LCon-LSJ, $100 a boat)**
JUL 25...5:57am jailbreak...MLC on 4 Rivers (Jville, 1 or 3pm)**
JUL 31...6:00am jailbreak...LaPC on lake TBA
** means I plan to fish it as of today <br /><br />
Modified by reelman at 11:29 AM 6/20/2010


Modified by reelman at 3:01 PM 6/27/2010

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BASS BLITZ OPEN FRUIT JAR ON BRL out of Shoe Marina June 5.2010.
We had 13 tough guys run in rain ALL day and 9/13 limits...the big bass were not to be found!

1st...Doug Schexnayder...8.68 limit on custom shalllow Flat Maxx and All-Terrain 3/4 oz jig...6 Shoe & 19 main lake bass.
2nd..Buddy "Young Gun" Smith...7.33 limit
3rd...Greg Myers...4 for 7.16
4th...James Mullins...7.15 limit
5th...Tim Houghton...6.85 limit
6th...Larry Crouch...6.52 limit
7th...Scott Smith...6.38 limit and 2.81 BB
8th...Russell "Young Gun" Brennan...6.13 limit
9th...Richie Barrett...5.84 limit
10th.Landon White...5.65 limit
11th.Tyler "Young Gun" Pere...4 for 5.56 and 2.29 2nd BB
Trae Ladner and Michael Jonese also fished...
Water rising and cooled to 81...super clear in some areas.
Thanks to the above guys that showed despite strong rains at ease off at 5:40am...
we voted to weigh at 1pm due to the weather...

Tyler was wanting a picture REAL bad cause he won $32 so Brennan took a Top 5 and BB...
if I was 19 I would want a picture too! Three teens...the future...great young bassers!
Payout was 140-97-65...with 55 for BB and 32 for 2nd BB.


Modified by reelman at 6:59 PM 6/5/2010

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Thanks!

Sometimes we bass fishermen "don't have the sense God gave a goose"...
(At least the boyz got out and scratched dat bassin itch for da week)

The day was Pee Wee's Great Adventure...nobody had a knockout bass to get that 10# bag.

congrats doug http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/bows.gif looks like you layed the smack down on them boys http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif

Thanks!

CRAZY DAY for a bunch of WILD AND CRAZY GUYS...rain lightning rain thunder till noon.

Never thought under 9 would win, maybe 3rd but the larger bass left on vacation...
Had to run about 40 miles over the day as the rain stung my face...
strategy was to cover much more bank than anyone else...looking for a certain type of cover...
finally caught a few on my new Kistler 7-6 LTA but most on the custom painted Flat Maxx.

A good thing was to see three 19 year olds that fish hard since entering the club/open scene in late spring...Buddy Smith has already won a dozen club events!!!

(I did not catch a bass until I was 30...by then these 3 will dominate many area events)

JUN 19...5:40am jailbreak...CBC on BRL (Shoe Marina 3pm)**; LaPC on T Bend (2 day)
JUN 26...5:42am jailbreak...DBC on Louie (Rocks, 3pm)**; Southern Boys BC on BRL (Shoe Marina prob 40 boats)
JUL 12...YUCATAN....$100 entry a boat 1-2, fish 15 minutes before sunrise to 3pm, weigh at Surplus City Landing, $20 BB, off limits M-F, any landing, contact Travis 318-805-2952. (Lopez Memorial)
JUL 16...7pm ease off? DBC Night T on lake TBA (probably LSJ)...
JUL 17...5:52am jailbreak...BBA on lake TBA**
JUL 24...5:56am jailbreak...Sunshine Benefit (LCon-LSJ, $100 a boat)**
JUL 25...5:57am jailbreak...MLC on 4 Rivers (Jville, 1 or 3pm)**
JUL 31...6:00am jailbreak...LaPC on lake TBA
** means I plan to fish it as of today


Modified by reelman at 10:23 PM 6/15/2010

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BBA on LSJ June 12. Water falling and 85-87...HOT after 9am
1st...Joey "Schoolin 4s" Gilbert with 4 for 16.15 and 4.55 lunker on jerkbaits after 10:30am
(Lady Luck gave him a wet kiss with a school of huge bass, right place, right time)
2nd...Buddy "Young Gun" Smith with a 9.85 limit on cranks/spinnerbaits
3rd...Joey Chapman with 4 for 8.95 on jigs/cranks
4th...Johnny "6 minute limit" Havard with an 8.20 limit on spinnerbait
5th...Keith Andrews with an 8.15 limit
(lost one good bass)
6th...Wayne Dolittle with a 5.90 limit
7th...Clifton Chapman with 2 for 5.10
8th...Nick Andrews with 2 for 4.50
9th...Scott Smith with 3 for 3.50
10th..Bobby Hall with 3 for 3.35
11th..Doug Schexnayder with 1 for 1.55
(lost a 4 pounder at noon...tiny back hook did me in, ouch..#8 replaced now with #4!)
12th..Mike Essary with 1 for .85
13th..Bill Murray with 1 for .80
Carroll Ray Huff and Richard Hess also fished.


Modified by reelman at 6:32 PM 6/12/2010

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Please take precautions...a guy with some bass to weigh last Sunday DID NOT make the weigh...the heat got him off the lake...it was that bad!!!

You know what to do...dress, shades, wider brim hat, hi SPF sunblock (I wear long sleeves and pants ALL year)...at least some water plus 8-10 cans of drinks...drink BEFORE you launch, then every hour starting about 8-9am...make time!

Radical things include going into the lake up to your knees on both legs, dipping ya hat, dipping a small towel and wrapping it around your neck...or crank up and run down the lake for 5 minutes while sipping a drink...

Of course a common sense club would weigh at 1pm during the summer but only 1 here does that...the rest think its an IRONMAN contest...hey, 2 hours less a month...life will go on and a lot less risk all the way around.

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Screw that! I jump all the way in when I get hot!!! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif

That may work for me at 1pm tomorrow!

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Try the swan dive, it works! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif

Seriously, be careful out there Doug and good luck. http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif

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Screw that! I jump all the way in when I get hot!!! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/Laugh.gif </td></tr></table> Thats what i'm screamin!!!! http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif

Use an umbrella and dip your shirt in the water, feels a lot cooler

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Concordia BC on Horseshoe Complex June 19th, 14 guys, water very low and reached 95.9 degrees with the air hit 96...wow...4/14 limits and 5/14 zips, weighed at 1:30pm.

1st...Boogie Long Jr of Natchez (102 club pts)...12.86 limit, 2.79 lunker on crankbaits, main lake early.
2nd..guest Ken "War Eagle" McKnight of Monterey...7.35 limit on spinnnertbaits, Cross Bayou
3rd...Tim Houghton of Clayton (98)...7.26 limit
4th...Matt Smith (96)...4 for 6.56
5th...Mark Morace (94)...6.08 limit
6th...Boogie Long (92)...3 for 5.90
7th...Jimmy Hodges (90)...4 for 5.76
8th...Clyde Morace (88)...2 for 3.02
9th...Doug Schexnayder (86)...1 for 1.58 (good grief)

Also fishing were Joe Houghton, Grady Boykin, David Junkle, Eric Laprairie and guest Greg Watson.


Modified by reelman at 5:26 PM 6/19/2010

I try to drink at least 80 ounces of water everyday, especially during this time of year. 120 ounces is ideal for me. Dehydration is no joke http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/sweating.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/sweating.gif

The guys today had the good common sense to weigh at 1:30pm instead of the usual 3pm...water hit 95.9...never seen that in June in my 30 years of fishing.
I drank a huge iced Dr. Pepper with 4 chicken strips during the 30 minute run home.
Its 97.6 on my carport remore sensor in the shade at the moment.

YESTERDAY'S ADVENTURE:

BLACK RIVER LAKE was as hot as predicted after about 10am when the breeze quit...
I ran to the general main lake area (where the T was won on cranks early)...for some reason they wanted nothing I offered from 5:55am on...so at 7am I hauled freight for bank #2 far away...messed around there a bit and had a jig thump in 9 feet off a pile...my vicious hookset was too soon, o-crapola, on a day like this a guy could zip so this was painful...jig fish are usually solid keepers...then I pitched it back a few times and worked it...
another thump, let her move off...bang, Kistler winch in da boat...I am on the board for 86 points...and sooo glad! Figured a limit like that would push 8 pounds so started thinking maybe this is where to stay a long while...

BBC guy who knows me from back when shows and tells me he was catching 3 pounders on this bank on topwater out...now he gets in my head so I do some of that too...a waste of time of course.

Decision time...its about 8:30am...do I run all my spots and pitch-crank 100 yards here and there or do I stay in this spot that will be shady another hour or so with 4 nice brushpiles to work???
Well, I stayed for just 2 more bass...and stayed and stayed...MY BAD.
When I eased off just once for a 30 minute break a percher motored in and parked over the main 2 brushpiles! His troll hanging over one and engine over the other. That should have told me to leave.

Percher left in 30 minutes or so but by then it was almost 11am so I started running but just too late I guess...and never ran my best dropoff cranking bank at all...MY BAD #2...
on the positive side I got good club points for a suckbutt day guessing wrong.
Next is Louie Louie with DBC on the 26th.
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Sideimager due back Wednesday...and needed bad to easily spot deeper cover/bass on all these low lakes.

1st time to fish in water that started at 92 and went to 95.9...unreal for June, just off the wall unreal.


Modified by reelman at 8:51 PM 6/21/2010

Whole game could change if Alex or any tropical storm starts pushing rain into La....we get 6-8 inches of rain and its game on for 2-3 weeks!!!
Otherwise...expect Ts similar to Louie/BRL for July-August.
The only other break is if Minorca can get right for a few T's this summer AND clubs pick it. Deeper cooler water with tons of cover under it mile after mile...that buzz is gonna do some talking ear


Modified by reelman at 8:39 AM 6/27/2010

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Dixie Bass Club fished Lake Louis near Sicily Island June 26th and bagged 8 limits despite 95 degree very low water.

1st...Randy " They Threw Rocks At Me On The Way Over" Pitre...with a 11.87 limit on Beavis, 3.55 kicker
2nd..Matt Smith with a 11.22 limit, 3.48 kicker
3rd...Jr. Book with a 8.12 limit, 3.44 kicker
4th...Nick Rushing with a 8.11 limit, 3.21 kicker
5th...Alan Brumfield with a 7.92 limit
6th...Terrell Jones (6.96 limit)
7th...Paul Foster (6.96 limit)
8th...Buster Martinez (6.30 limit)
9th...Geln Foster (6.03 limit)
10th.Justin Foster ( 2 for 5.49, 3.79 lunker)
11th.Herman Goodman (4 for 5.36)
12th.Doug Schexnayder (3 for 4.55)
13th.Jerry Boykin (3 for 3.60)
14th.Allen Blanton (1 for 1.04)
Guest Steve Strebeck also fished.

You don't wanna know how low Louie is or that you can hear the pump working in the bayou still drawing it down.
I managed to lose 2 keepers on a Booyah Buzz bait before 7am...trailer hook came off both times...back to the mod drawing board.
Nick culled out a bigger fish by mistake...must be da heat!
Air 80-95...some breeze half the time...water hit 95.4 at 2pm on my troll Lowrance.


Modified by reelman at 6:41 PM 6/26/2010

BRL Fruit Jar out of DA SHOE MARINA June 27th...weigh at 12:30pm, 14 anglers, 3 limits.

1st...Ken McWarEagle with a 9.13 limit
2nd..Albert Crouch with an 8.45 limit
3rd..Boogie Long Jr. with 3 for 7.17 and BB 4.25
4th..Buddy Smith with 4 for 7.00
5th..Johnny Havard with a 6.43 limit
6th..Ray Ladner with 3 fish for 5.62
Also Boogie Long, Brennan Russell, Trey Ladner, Joe Houghton, Jason Stanley, James Mullins, Tim Houghton and John Burnham fished.

THE HOT FALLING WATER CONTINUES TO TAKE ITS TOLL...FARMERS PUMPING WATER OUT AND NEAR NO RAIN WITH 95 DEGREE AIR...BAD MOJO FOR MANY AREA LAKES.