It has been a few weeks since I posted last so a quick update, first FLW Costa event at Grand. I went up thinking that it was going to be a sight fishing slugfest, not wanting that, but thinking it. The first few days were windy, rainy, overcast, or all three and less than perfect for looking, so I spent Saturday through Monday fishing, and truthfully never really got any real confidence. However I got a clue and missed it, Sunday morning I picked up a Tenkuu, which is a Yamamoto jerk bait, and a 12' fish absolutely crushed it, but for some reason I put it down, within 10 minutes of picking it up I laid it on the deck and never touched it again. The only thing I could consistently get bit on was a 5" Senko, and a very occasional fish on shakey head, but I was only catching a few keeper size fish, so with the blue bird skies of Tuesday I never got a rod out of the box, I just went looking. I think I found about 40 fish on the nest that I felt were keepers, but the few pockets they were in saw a constant stream of guys looking, I felt that's what I might be forced to do, but the forecast for the remainder of the week was storms and wind and my confidence was really lagging, Wednesday I found a group of release fish in Wolf Creek near the launch site and decided I would try to catch one of the few good fish off the nest if I got a good boat draw and then come back to the release fish to try to catch my limit. But then in the room Wednesday night a friend, Billy Cline, said that he had been getting a few good bites on a jerk bait, it didn't change my mind on where or what I was going to do, and as i noted at the ...continued

Up on Grand this week for the FLW Costa tournament and going around a boat house and see this goose on the foam float, then I see this little yellow thing peeking out from under mom...I love this picture!

Got to spend a day this week on Lake Toho in Florida with my friend Tony Ferreira. We caught a bunch of fish and this thing, which he kept trying to get me to lip....

To quasi-quote Napoleon Dynamite "I caught you a delicious gator". For all my PETA friends the little guy and I parted ways with both of us in good health and with all our fingers and toes intact.

As promised in a prior blog my newest article "Lessons Learned and Finally Applied" was published today on Gary Yamamoto's magazine Inside Line.  The article discusses my practice and actual tournament days at the FLW Costa series tournament a few weeks ago, I hope you enjoy the read.