Cabelas Shootout May 15-16

["W"]

Where to start??? Lets talk fishing 1st....

Two day event in Orange Texas and Cabelas put on a great tourment with good payouts...

5 tout limit .....Tout 15inch with one over 25inch limit...
Reds....one per team per day slot 20-28inchs

Day1 fishing was tough we weight in 11.11lbs on 4 trout was sitting good with only 1st place really out there with 17lbs...rest was from 14lbs down....

Day 2 we had a better day on trout, caught lots of fish and hit one hell of a school of reds...

Ended up with total 25.85lbs 7th place trout

Redfish 8.65bls one red 1st place(Fool caught it)

Saltycajun.com had some members fishing....I know we had 4 teams from LA fishing plus 2 Texas teams that are members

Places from our members

Evis102 pulled in a good comeback from yesterday to end up top 5 in 5th place

We were 7th

John S and Steven L were 8th

Now the good stuff..........
#1 JoshL is bad luck around new boats.....Micah I know why your new boat never ran!@

List of what went wrong
1) Rain
2) Wind
3) Ran out of gas on day one coming back from weigh in....Trolled two miles of the 8 we were lacking to the landing
4) boat only gets about 180miles to the tank running like you stole it
5) Day two 1mile from Landing 5:40am...........WHAM....Merc is down.... Hit something huge in the middle of intracoastal............... Check damage and seems that the lower until was still there....Dont know how...
Get to landing.....News is not great.... Skeg Bent, Fiberglass on back bottom cut,Prop nicked.......Roll out..were fishing baby....
6) Josh swims at landing trying to check lower unit twice
7) Bug in eye once getting back up and running
8) Load up with gas cans from run to weight in ..........We run out again...but were ready this time

Haynie made the runs and is one tough cookie to hang around josh....
Put 375miles in two days!!

[huntin fool]

and hurt the living heck out of my ribs or whatever while netting a fish, still got the fish astericks!

[Jordan]

How much was the winnings if ya don't mind me asking ?

[FlatoutFishin]

Good job Fool on the red ....for putting up with it!

[Ray]

There is a gas pump, on the water, at Bridge City Seafood, about 1/2 mile north of the ICW on Cow Bayou. Go North till you see a bridge and it is on the right. Bestest hamburgers in Texas too.
Cow Bayou is just a couple miles West of Orange, North of the ICW, just before you hit the Sabine Lake.

[mikedatiger]

Josh must have a Voodoo hex. 3 tournament outings in a row with the following results:

• Blown powerhead
• Mysterious engine breakage
• Run outta gas
• Damage lower unit

I need to raise my insurance coverage.

Nice job guys and nice fish Fool!!

[Ray]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Josh must have a Voodoo hex. 3 tournament outings in a row with the following results:

• Blown powerhead
• Mysterious engine breakage
• Run outta gas
• Damage lower unit

I need to raise my insurance coverage.

Nice job guys and nice fish Fool!!

Send him with me. Then he can have a reef raid too.

[Shawn Braquet]

fool buy some sun block wit dat check...W starting to think an aluminum hull would have been more your cup of tea with twin 35 hp gatortails instead of the haynie

[mikedatiger]

Originally Posted by Ray

Send him with me. Then he can have a reef raid too.

Heck we did that in West Cove earlier this year. Check that one off the list

[Reel Bender]

Been there.....................................Done That!! LOL

["W"]

Originally Posted by Reel Bender

Been there.....................................Done That!! LOL

[Reel Bender]

Originally Posted by "W"

I was talking reef in west cove, not running out of gas twice!!!

[Ray]

I still don't see why you have to run to Orange 4 times in a day.

[Reel Bender]

You must consider the object of the conversation.

["W"]

Originally Posted by Ray

I still don't see why you have to run to Orange 4 times in a day.

Check in and weight in.........Same as any other professorial tournament

[Reel Bender]

Oh so you are one of those guys that fish in other tournaments on other bodies of water, only to make long hauls back to your home waters because you can't catch fish anywhere else types.

["W"]

Originally Posted by Reel Bender

Oh so you are one of those guys that fish in other tournaments on other bodies of water, only to make long hauls back to your home waters because you can't catch fish anywhere else types.

No because I fish where I know I can catch fish I don't potlick Texans........They Potlick us.

BTW......Sabine lake is Loaded with trout...guys caught hundreds of trout this weekend......So why does Texans come to LA to fish

[jlincecum]

Originally Posted by mikedatiger

Heck we did that in West Cove earlier this year. Check that one off the list

that wasnt reef we drug, that was sandy bottom

[Reel Bender]

Originally Posted by "W"

No because I fish where I know I can catch fish I don't potlick Texans........They Potlick us.

BTW......Sabine lake is Loaded with trout...guys caught hundreds of trout this weekend......So why does Texans come to LA to fish

Just to get under your skin.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by "W"

Check in and weight in.........Same as any other professorial tournament

That's two trips. Still too much running.
Shoulda launched in Texas and ran back to Big Lake. Just one round trip.