Bad Luck !

Go Fishing!

“Gloom, despair and agony on me
-wwwwhhhhhhooooooaaaaaa-
Deep, dark depression
Excessive misery
-wwwwwwhhhhhhoooooaaaaa-
If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair and agony on me”
famous Hee Haw song.......

That about sums it up y'all!

dropped to 4th place,
with heat behind me and a tall hill in front!

next post,
what's happening in new orleans!!!!

smiles (and frowns)
susan

Day Two Fourchon LA

Go Fishing!

8 am
Got pounded for an hour and a half as we ran straight into a sloppy 5 foot chop,
In the gulf, it gets like a washing machine! But we got there, about 60 miles out
And west, I think I could see texas! Rough seas, 1st bait hits the water and
SMACK
Huge fish grabbed the bait,
Then spit it out in the air!
We could not believe it!
But it meant we were in a good spot, we’d get another chance.

9 am
Caught a mid 30’s fish,
Caught a cobia,
Caught some fresh bait,
Only boat on the rig,

10 am
SMACKAnother huge fish grabs the long bait on the surface,
As the fish flew through the air,
He cut the line mid air in front of us

11 am
Another big fish skies on our bait, and missed the hooks,
Crushed the bait, missed every single hook!

11:30 am
Caught another small fish,

High Noon
We are trying to stay positive but how could our luck be so bad,
To see and miss three fish that could lock up winning the whole year!

1 pm
Day is almost over, we have to be at the scales by 4 and its and hour and a half in,
We start hopping rigs tring to find a fish, a stupid fish that is fat and lazy,
We had enough smart acrobatic fish!

Would have lost a million dollar bet that we would go to Fourchon and not catch at least one fish over 40 lbs, it was too easy-right!

Some might say we 'stubbed our toes', others that we fell flat on our faces,
and some, 'well you used up all your luck', but no matter how you slice it,
we need a miracle now to win the season,
but we certainly did not expect this poor weeekend,
we did have other friends that are definately out for good due to boat mechanical problems and missed weigh in completely, or just got skunked and caught '0's.

But hey,
TV show aired today,
and pick up a copy of Saltwater Sportsman or Sport Fishing for our team on the inside cover, I have not scene it yet, but heard about it.

Thanks for all the support,
we'll keep trying as hard as always!

Next Pro stop Savannah GA late august,
last tournament mid october in n myrtle beach SC,

lots of little local stuff twix here and there!

smiles-
susan

Fourchon LA

Well this is it!!!!
Weather forecast is hot, light winds, possible ground swell,
but word around the dock is another depression formed up and is
easing its way towards us, and the offshore wind and seas had picked up
drastically overnight,
guess we will see soon!
It is 4:30 am,
I tossed and turned all night with excitement,
we get to weigh an extra fish to make up the second day of
the Ft Pierce,
so we could really get ahead!

FISH ON !


DAY One!

SUCKS!

we ran out about 35 miles straight out, caught some small fish,
but then had a huge fish, face at us, sky on a bait,
missed it,
then cut back and freakin torpeado'd it, right at us,
big,
real big kingfish,
as it blistered the line off the reel,
i grabbed the wheel,
the rod was already in another hand and to pass it would be
dangerous,
and being a very experienced driver, i felt confident in catching this fish,
sometimes, much more confident on the wheel esp. on borrowed boat,
i aggressively threw the three motors into forward and spun the boat,
as we headed to the fish line,
it slacked as the fish cut the line with his tail, and ran away forever,
it was an six foot leader,
that's six feet long of cable wire before the monofiliment line,
that means this fish was about that long,
yep
we never use that long of leader,
but we lengthened for the bigger fish here,
apparently not long enough
we finished the day with alot of 30 lb fish,
weighed in a 33.and change,

no good,

we could conveibaley crash and burn tomorrow for the year without 2 big fish

we will see

weather not so bad,
but not perfect

hope your day was perfect!!!!

more later with sleep!

sk and crew