I choked! :(

First, lets talk about the opener. I went fishing both days on opening weekend. Saturday I headed out to Monona, and ended up with 3 LM bass. All males and avg size around 14 inches. Sunday, I went to waubessa and boy was it windy. I tooled around waubessa along with, oh I don't know, 50,000 other boats, and really couldn't find anywhere good to fish. So headed to Upper Mud to give it a try before calling it a day. I got on a weedline and in 30 minutes had boated 3 bass and a decent northern. The bass on Saturday came on a Boggie Bait and the bass on Sunday came on a Shakeyhead Worm. Not bad for the first weekend of fishing, especially considering the millions of people out.

The next week, Foxy decided it was time to paint the living room, and had taken a few days off of work. I had a conference Tuesday and Wednesday, and decided to join the painting fun Thursday and Friday. It was pretty nice since I had about week off of work anyway. Well, I had an opportunity to head out on Friday afternoon. I headed to Monona, the weeds are really up and the bass spawn was really on. I boated 7 bass caught on Boggie baits and Shakeyheads. I also pretty much slimed my boat at the launch. Which kinda sucked, in fact I still need to wash it off.

So then we come to the choke fest. My first RCBA (Rock County Bass Anglers) club tourny was on Tuesday at Delavan lake. I was a nonboater fishing with another guy, who actually has a really nice alumicraft. We headed to some docks off of a steep drop. Saw lots of bass, but couldn't get anything to commit. We fished there for about an hour. Oh yeah, it rained then stopped, then rained, then stopped, then SUPER rained, then stopped. I was aware of the fact it would be raining and ended stopping at Farm and Fleet and purchased a fairly nice rain suite. Good call. Anyway, we moved over to this Marina in hopes of getting out of the weather. Turns out, pretty much the other 3 boats in the tourny had the same idea, only from the get go. So it was pretty well fished out. My boating partner landed a 21" beast. Which turned out not only to be big fish, but also the biggest fish anyone had ever gotten during a tournament. In the end, I caught a northern, and missed probably 3 bass. So basically, I choked. Oh well, I'm boating in the next tournament, which was supposed to be on Waubessa but we had to move do to another tourny going on there. So we will be fishing the Keg, which I've never fished. If I find some time this weekend I might prefish it, but we'll have to see how it goes.

Two Days and Counting...

Two more days until the May 5th game fish opener here in the land of cheese. I'm pretty pumped, we've had stable weather for the last week. With temps in the mid 60's to mid 70's. In the meantime I took the 'ole bass tracker out on Mendota and landed 3 nice gills the largest of which measured 9" and two crappies one of which I kept. I actually KEPT fish, not only that I cleaned them when I got home for Foxy. I pretty much butchered them however, it was my first attempt at cleaning fish. My grandpa gave me an electric knife which worked pretty good and being the geek I am, I had the laptop setup next to me with fish cleaning instructions. GG Internet. Anyway, temps on Mendota were in the 59-63 degree range so the opener is looking spectacular. Downside to this is the lakes are going to be busy and fishing pressure could lead to a tough bite. Only time will tell.

On another note, I would first like to apologize to my beer mates for the verbal flogging I gave them about my distaste for the band Radiohead and the music production software ProTools. New rules, don't argue with Cory about music, politics, or religion after he's had a few...lol. Anyway, I still stand by my statement that Radiohead is probably the worst band in history and that Thome Yorke is pansie, pretentious, faux musical genius, that has been shoved down consumers throats (or into their ears) for far too long. Whoever paid off of some record exec to promote Radiohead as gods gift to music should be publicly ostracized and hung out to dry. Seriously, they are terrible and we as consumers of music have been lead to believe that poor, pathetic Thom Yorke is some sort of phenomenal, musically superior, gift from on high. BS. This is guy is a fake and all you radiohead faithful just ate it up. Face it the band is bad, Thom Yorke is a chump, and a roving band of rabid chimpanzees could make better music with their eyes closed. I sorry, that's my opinion. Take it or leave I won't change. In the end the worst part about radiohead is how people are so devout to them as if their music cures disease and ends poverty, I'm sorry Thom Yorke but the world already has one Bono and that's plenty. Believe me this isn't my first argument over the sorry bunch whiny brits, and it probably won't be my last. Believe it or not radiohead junkies, I'm not the only one who doesn't like this band, do yourself a favor and google radiohead sucks and you might learn a thing or to.

Until next time...Tight Lines and RadioHead still sucks.