BBC members need help on Wheeler

[Kerry201pro]

Guys, Just a quick note. Tripp and Championman are coming down to Wheeler to fish a national Tourney. If any of you have any re ent info on wheeler you can share with them it would be great. I have been fishing her hard but the summer pattern is kind of rough right now. I know Eric and others are trying to help the guys out and I thank them. These are great guys and not to mention one is a OMC moderator So if you got some info you can share and dont want to post it shoot the a IM. THey will be in deecatur next week. Thanks again for helping the South Carolina boys out. Thx Kerry

[Jason Phillips]

WHAT???? We've got an OMC board??? I thought we only had a BRP Evinrude/Johnson forum. Man where have I been? Have you got a link Kerry? I bet they've got a picture of that 250 H.O. E-Tec Evinrude is coming out with. Here's the picture I've got.

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[toddgot5fish]

why YES . i do need help on wheeler , whatcha got????

[Kerry201pro]

Todd, we are still looking Been looking for 10 years now Still cant find them. Come on up and join in the hunt for "Greenhead October"

[deavofish]

Don't forget about Team Don - me and BassHawk87 are coming over also to fish the BAIT Classic

Fred must be promising payments of boiled peanuts and fried turkeys and

Looking forward to it - any estimation of how long travel time from Atlanta to Decatur?

[Tripp T.]

don it should be about 3- 3.5 hours for you.

[Tripp T.]

maybe 4.5

[Kerry201pro]

3.5hrs by car. We have had our first major cold front blow threw. Winds out of North for 25mph for almost 2 days and nights solid. Hopefully the weather change will turn them on

[Bass Hawk 87]

Just wanted to say "Thanks" to Eric and Kerry for coming over and helping out. Talking with you guys was very helpful in deciding where to go and what to look for etc.

Don D and I spent a few hours on the flats on Wednesday afternoon, but had no luck. Decided to go further down toward Wilson on Thursday and look for deeper water and more cover along the shoreline. Might not have been the right decision, but it allowed us to fish more comfortable water for us. We don't have grass etc, and decided to fish our strengths during the tourney.

Thursday we found some decent fish there, and caught maybe 25 fish fishing the areas in the Elk river between the mouth and the bridge. Decided to concentrate on those areas and stay away from the really shallow stuff. Our best 5 would go somewhere in the 12 lb range. but we never found the kicker we needed to get us into the 15-17 lb range, but knew they were there.

Friday we headed down, and started fishing the points on the end of the island at the mouth of the Elk.

Lots of feeding fish there but could not get hooked up with topwaters.

Started throwing the crankbaits we had caught fish on the day before, and Don D caught a nice 5 lb + drum.

About 8:30 or so I decided to give the blade another try and stuck a good fish (the kicker we needed) in the 4 1/2 - 5 lb range. Fish took me into some deep trees and could not get her out. Broke off, and losing that fish ruined me for the rest of the day. I just could not shake the loss.

Finally found some active fish around 12 on the crankbaits and caught 6 or 7 of them, but could only manage 2 keepers.

Decided to head home on Saturday morning.

Had a great time fishing the T and enjoyed meeting a lot of great people with BAIT and also the guys who took the time to come over and hang out with us.. Your input and advice was listened to carefully, I can assure you.

[Eric B]

Hey guys glad we could maybe some day we could just go fun fishing. Kerry and I love to meet new people who love to fish. I am glad ya'll caught some fish and didn't tear anything up. It was nice meeting all you BAIT guys Wed. night. Thanks to Tripp and Fred for the p'nuts and turkey that was alot of fun.