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Had the pleasure of spending a few days with Tincan, Birddog, Reel Slow, Jumptrout51 and Butch on the Big Pond....

Launched at Timber Island bright and early Friday morning, headed west found alot of bait fish and blues, as well as few trout....Moved back east and found a few redfish...moved back west again found a few more trout...Went way east and found alot of Floating grass ...We decided to try a few spots on out....found a few trout around some holes...Tincan landed this nice 24" trout, released to fight again another day



Day two started out even earlier....running in the dark headed east again..fished a great spot, bait & bottom, but no game fish

Moved back east to a nice redfish spot....ended up catching 6 or 8 redfish....We were milling around...I see a big redfish buried in the grass, looked like a shark had been after him....I tell Tincan look at the red, it looks dead....as the spoon rolls near it's mouth, it rises up and inhales the spoon....I rear back and the fish takes off.....ended up running under the motor and trolling motor twice before it made it to the net....Chalk's best red to date 34"...what a monster



We decide we are in a trout tournament and better start trout fishing...off to the east....After a little wrastl'n and verbal abuse I find myself on the bow running the boat ....We start fishing the grass line and Tincan scores with a nice keeper....We start picking up fish here and there...I finally lock into a nice keeper....got it to the boat, it was 23" and weighed 4.45 lbs....We had one red in the cooler and another in the livewell....Tincan caught a bigger red than the one in the livewell, so we upgraded...Fished around for another hour or so and headed to the weigh in.

We ended up finishing second to Birddog and Reel Slow, but we won Big Trout...Not a bad day on the pond

Appreciate the ride Tincan, hope you learned something ...Special thanks goes to Birddog for allowing us to stay with them in Carrabelle

Great report, Chalk. Congrats to you and TinCan on 2nd. Glad to have all of ya'll stay with me. I had a great time as well. Awesome red.

Great trout, TinCan.



on the signature, Chalk.

birddog wrote:

Great report, Chalk. Congrats to you and TinCan on 2nd. Glad to have all of ya'll stay with me. I had a great time as well. Awesome red.

Great trout, TinCan.



on the signature, Chalk.

Ditto all that

Great report Chalk, and congrats on the big fish and 2nd place in the tournament.
I'm glad to see the club moving around to different areas again.

It was a heck of a weekend. An experience I'll never forget. And, the fishin was enjoyable, too. A big thanks to Birddog for the accomodations.

Congrats to Birddog and Reel Slow on the win.

In all fairness, Jumptrout and Butch finished third, and congratulations are in order for them. Jumptrout complained he was fishing under a handicap. Something about a missing tackle box.

Reel slow was anxious to get home after the weigh in. Said his back was killing him. Something about having to carry Birddog all weekend.

Partner, I did learn a few things this weekend. I hope you learned a little, too. I'll be glad to share more of my anchoring techniques any time you like.

As always, partner, enjoyed the company. Ain't nobody I'd rather wrassel with.

Sounds like ya'll had a great time

tin can wrote:

In all fairness, Jumptrout and Butch finished third, and congratulations are in order for them. Jumptrout complained he was fishing under a handicap. Something about a missing tackle box.

Man ought to know his boat better

tin can wrote:

Reel slow was anxious to get home after the weigh in. Said his back was killing him. Something about having to carry Birddog all weekend.

Only thing BD didn't catch this weekend was sleep thanks to JT scratchin and cussin all night "HE** NO!! - - SH$$$$T!!"

Thanks for sufferin on the couch BD (almost said "taking one for the team on the couch", but that didn't sound right)

Congrats to all who placed, yall definately handed us our a$$!
Leave it to us to tear up the Flounder in a trout/redfish tournament , oh well at least I'll be eating good today
Once again congrats to Bird Dog and Reel Slow for winning, and to Eerman for a damn nice redfish. That thing was a monster of a slot red!!

It was good to see you there Rocket, as well as Tide Dancer, Sea Gurl, Wevans, Jsuber, Wet Jet and everyone else...It was a good turn out...I'd like to fish over a little more....

Tin Can wrote

In all fairness, Jumptrout and Butch finished third, and congratulations are in order for them.

Thats funny, mentioning Jumptrout and Butch and fairness in the same sentence.


Tin Can wrote

Reel slow was anxious to get home after the weigh in. Said his back was killing him. Something about having to carry Birddog all weekend.

You know a little something about being carried yourself

Nice job, Chalk and TC, and thanks for posting. Really nice red.

Good day on the water, you caught some fish, you were in good company, and it doesn't get much better than that.
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I had a great partner for the tournament in Atticus. We caught a lot of fish but the trout just would not come. Only three trout that day on ony one would make it to the scales. We did catch 5 reds and Lukes largest was a 26" only to beat out of big redfish by a few ounces. The redfish were 26", 22 1/2", 21", 20" and one small 17 incher. We caught spanish, trout, bluefish, ladyfish, pinfish, ballyhoo, lizard fish, redfish and jacks. Some of the bluefish and ladyfish were the largest I have evere caught. One lady fish was darn near a tarpon. What a great day on the water and congrats go out to all the winners.
Thanks Luke for a great day on the pond.

Sounds like a great time all around!
I'll join you guys one of these days!

birddog wrote:Tin Can wrote

Reel slow was anxious to get home after the weigh in. Said his back was killing him. Something about having to carry Birddog all weekend.

You know a little something about being carried yourself

Yep. And I know a little about carryin, too.