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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 06:38 PM
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Chris G
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You get to your morning bite honey hole first thing that morning, that dinner from last night not sitting well giving you the bubble guts.
I have a good streak going.....3 times in the last 3 years, I've had to find a wooded bank or in 1 case actually ask a guy on Cedar Creek if I can use his bathroom.......all 3 times we cashed nice checks!!! And yes, the guy on Cedar Creek thankfully let me use his bathroom. Felt sorry for his wife who was just in the other room and most likely heard me!
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Ken A.]
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06/01/16 06:44 PM
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HARD WORKN HAROLD
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You've ran two miles through dense fog then idled through two miles of stumps to the back of Blundell Creek and when you stop to fish you realize you forgot to put the plug in...
DON'T LET THE CLOTHES FOOL YA Life is too short to fish with a dead cricket! PB: wife of 40 years
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 06:45 PM
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Rhino68W
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....you launch your kayak and get in the middle of the Trinity River just to realize your paddle is still in the car......literally up a poop creek without a paddle!
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 06:49 PM
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Monte Reagan
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How about when you realize you have no T-paper in the boat and you wore flip flops.
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:13 PM
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M. Alexander
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Start sipping on a bottle of pepto the last day of practice on a multi-day or the day before a one day tourney. No more bubble guts or emergency situations to take your line out of the water!
Mark
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:15 PM
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Ricky Taylor
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Every time I fish a tournament on Athens...
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:26 PM
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9094
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Or when you have an early big fish bite located catchh a 6 plus on the third cast and your partner says I got to go sh/t. There were three boats trying to get in that spot within 100 feet two with females so we had to go. guys that won caught 28 lbs right there.
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:31 PM
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Panhandle
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The realization pops in my head that I forgot to take the strap buckles off of the back of my trailer and more than likely floated them off when I backed in.....
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI]
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06/01/16 07:36 PM
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Ken A.
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You've ran two miles through dense fog then idled through two miles of stumps to the back of Blundell Creek and when you stop to fish you realize you forgot to put the plug in... You got most of us beat on this one. My boats have always filled up so fast I was able to tell pretty quick. The Legend boat drain plug is a SS screw in style plug. It doesn't fully come out when you unscrew it so even if you forget to screw it in when you launch, it takes a while for the boat to take on enough water for the auto-bilge to kick on. We got to our spot right at daylight in back of Blundell. Start throwing a frog in the pads and about the third cast, KABLOOSH!! A six-pounder eats my frog! About 15 minutes later my bilge kicks on.. It won't shut off... It runs & runs.. We fish on. After the morning bite subsides we go back to the trailer and screw the plug in...
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Ken A.]
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06/01/16 07:40 PM
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SteezMacQueen
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You've ran two miles through dense fog then idled through two miles of stumps to the back of Blundell Creek and when you stop to fish you realize you forgot to put the plug in... You got most of us beat on this one. My boats have always filled up so fast I was able to tell pretty quick. The Legend boat drain plug is a SS screw in style plug. It doesn't fully come out when you unscrew it so even if you forget to screw it in when you launch, it takes a while for the boat to take on enough water for the auto-bilge to kick on. We got to our spot right at daylight in back of Blundell. Start throwing a frog in the pads and about the third cast, KABLOOSH!! A six-pounder eats my frog! About 15 minutes later my bilge kicks on.. It won't shut off... It runs & runs.. We fish on. After the morning bite subsides we go back to the trailer and screw the plug in... thankfully mine are rigged with a tourney saver plug that is opened and closed from inside the boat.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:41 PM
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Dubee
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Half of the time i don't bother putting the plug in my triton. The bilge will come on every couple of hrs for about 5 mins. I have had it in the water for 3 days on a holiday weekend with no plug.
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 07:43 PM
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Connor S
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keep a pop up tent, tp, and a bucket on the boat.. best solution for bubble gut ever devised. plus you can still cast through the window
I say we fish 5 days a week and work 2.
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Dubee]
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06/01/16 07:50 PM
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J.P. Greeson
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Half of the time i don't bother putting the plug in my triton. The bilge will come on every couple of hrs for about 5 mins. I have had it in the water for 3 days on a holiday weekend with no plug. One of these days your pump will go out and your Triton will be sunk. Everyone forgets their plug once or twice, but knowingly leaving it out is asking for trouble.
The solution to any problem - work, love, money, whatever - is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. --John Gierach
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Chris G]
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06/01/16 09:01 PM
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bigbass94
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You get to your morning bite honey hole first thing that morning, that dinner from last night not sitting well giving you the bubble guts.
I have a good streak going.....3 times in the last 3 years, I've had to find a wooded bank or in 1 case actually ask a guy on Cedar Creek if I can use his bathroom.......all 3 times we cashed nice checks!!! And yes, the guy on Cedar Creek thankfully let me use his bathroom. Felt sorry for his wife who was just in the other room and most likely heard me! That's bold right there! I gotta give you props for that. I'd just as soon go off a courtesy dock or something before asking someone if I can use their bathroom. But you gotta do what you gotta do! I sharted on my self during a tournament once. I had been taking antibiotics the previous days and my system was "flowing". I bent over to get another rod and BAM. Luckily there's a ramp with a bathroom right around the corner. I don't know when I'll learn to stop eating breakfast kolaches before fishing. Never fails! Had a serious emergency during BassChamps, right when they started calling boat numbers. Luckily we were boat 119!
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson
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Re: During a tournament, Don't you just hate it when......
[Re: Soft Tap]
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06/01/16 09:10 PM
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JoeyC
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All the references to bubble guts has me cracking up at work. Worst for me was bubble guts, stopped on the nearest bank, started my business, and then got a cramp in my quad. Not a good situation.
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