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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Bass Tourmanent Recap
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Jul 5, 2023, 10:57 AM
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First, I'm not really a big tournament fisherman...and this wasn't really a big tournament event. It was easy to qualify and a fun trip for an adult and "junior" (my 15 year old nephew) fishing tournament.
There were 48 boats, and 1st place was over $2,000. It probably cost about $700-$800 to fish with hotel and fuel.
So practice day 1, we found about 3 places we could catch some fish. I caught a nice smallmouth that weighed 2.7 lbs.
Practice day 2, we went way up a creek and it was dead, we spent most of our day exploring this new water for 2 bites. So we went back out of the creek to the main river and caught fish in 3 new places.
Tourney day 1. We went to a creek we fished two years ago and started catching fish right away, but they were small. We had about 8-10 keepers on the day, but our weight was terrible. We weighed 3 fish for just over 4 lbs and sitting 37/48 boats. It was less than desirable, but we did win 2 pairs of sunglasses valued at $100.
Tourney day 2. New plan was to hit a creek we found on day 1. We caught small fish there earlier, but thot there should be better quality. So early on I land a 4.6 largemouth on a buzz toad. We caught a few more fish in the creek, but nothing great. So then we runs to another creek and mcnephew busts a 2.6 largemouth and a 2 lb largemouth. Hey, we got something now. Then he hooks a goodun, got her in the net and she is just over 4 lbs. Now, we got a sack...like potential biggest of the day sack.
We are one of the last boats to weigh in and we drop that sack on the scales and it is the biggest of the tourmanent just over 11.5 lbs for 3 fish. This gets us 1st place bonus bucks ($300) and moves us from 37th all the way up to 10th place ($300). Also, since we finished in the top 10, we qualified for a tournament in March to fish for 2 bass boats (1 for 1st place and 1 for 2nd place). I mean, we don't have much of a chance, but it's sweet to qualify for a large tournament like that.
TLDR: Tournament day 1 was crap, but we whacked em on day 2 and qualified for a big tournament in March to try and win a bass boat.
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Re: Bass Tourmanent Recap
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Sep 5, 2023, 8:38 AM
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Yeeyee
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Noice. You fish Flint? Decatur flats?
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:19 AM
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Run up to where youtube boi was catching smallies?
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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We went wayyyyy up Flint Creek for practice and only had 2
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:23 AM
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bites. So we scrapped it. Maybe could have caught something if we kept going up.
We spent most of day 1 up Cotaco which was a 15 mile run + about 5-6 miles fishing up the creek. They were in there but for some reason just couldn't get them gooduns.
Day 2 we went up another creek a normal intelligent person wouldn't take their bass boat. But mine is already a scratch and dent sale and I packed a battery chainsaw and dgaf.
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NOICE. There are definitely many areas on Wheeler
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:30 AM
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that can get hairy back up in creeks like that.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Luckily there was another boat in Flint and he was a local
Jul 5, 2023, 10:18 AM
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so I followed him back out running 50 mph. Otherwise it would have taken me 50 mins instead of 10 it did.
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Yep that's a windy and MF. Get out of the creek channel
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:37 AM
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and good F'ing luck not getting kilt. Shallow AF
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Did you realize how fast you were driving?!?
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:33 AM
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Sixty-nine!!!
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Looks like a nice drive.
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:35 AM
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Did you see any gators?
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Drive wasn't too bad, went by Ocoee river
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:37 AM
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as recommended by TRDJ...avoided Atlanta. Although, we did get stuck for 20 mins right by the river on a 2-lane bc crash.
No gators, but could definitely see there being some where we were at.
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Lot o points [156096]
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Man I just wanna thank my sponsors cause the
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:35 AM
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Evinrude was running real good today getting us out of the hole and gettin our Stratos 22FXRGT to the honey holes first and when we got there the ceramic bearings in my Daiwa 429XP was letting me put my Fish Formula coated jigs right where I wanted em and my Color C-lector was telling me exactly which color they was biting and my Roland Martin fishing glasses made it feel like I was in the water right there with em.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Was cool to see some wrapped boats (sponsored) fishermen
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:39 AM
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and 30/48 being from AL and we go down there in a metal boat and catch the biggest bag of the tournament.
It was a lot of luck and the fact I was willing to abuse my boat.
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Some of them dudes run up to Guntersville?***
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:43 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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I don't know.....I know some guys fished around the dams
Jul 31, 2023, 9:46 AM
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I think it's 44 miles to Guntersville and like 24 to Wilson.
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Lot o points [156096]
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In all seriousness, as a fellow boater
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:57 AM
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I’m most impressed with a trailer that makes it from SC to AL and back with no issues. I give my trailer so much care and attention and that POS just craps on me time and time again.
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Grease in wheels, air in tires.
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:01 AM
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That covers about 99% of what is probable for going wrong.
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Lot o points [156096]
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Paulwalkerlaughing.gif***
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:03 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Big diff in boats here
Jul 31, 2023, 10:04 AM
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Mine being about 2400 lb and a single axle trailer.
Yours assuming double axle and 7,000 lbs? Idk, but I don't even have brakes on mine.
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Lot o points [156096]
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Yeah, 6500-7k and double axle, and the
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:10 AM
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Freaking brakes are the problem. I’ve replaced the entire tongue to get a new actuator, bleed the fluid annually, have replaced the entire drums on both, sides, etc, put new bearing buddies on it and check the grease religiously…... still the last time I ran 75 down the Cumberland parkway one wheel got red hot to the point a stud sheared off. It doesn’t matter if I adjust the drums perfectly in the driveway, they get out of whack on a long drive.
Luckily it’s only doing duty 2 miles at a time now in KY, and an electric disc brake conversion would cost more than the trailer is worth, so I’m just going to keep it as is and gripe about it.
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Different category of trailer for sure.
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:11 AM
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Nice way to work in a humblebrag!
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Lot o points [156096]
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Let me regale you with tales of my crappy trailer***
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:13 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81249]
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Drum brakes?
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:19 AM
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I imagine they'd last about an hour in salt water.
Everything on mine braking wise is stainless steel--including the rotors. The calipers, pistons, pad backing plates, even the mounting brackets and lug nuts. I'm thinking about getting stainless idler hubs, but stopped at galvanized for those.
I "refurbished" my torsion stub axles back in May, but even after knocking off the rust, Ospho prepping them then painting them and replacing the hub seals wear sleeves..they'll all need to be replaced next year. I'll prob just put all new axles on it as they'll be 7 years old...and that's about the life span for torsion bars on tandem axle trailers.
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Lot o points [156096]
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Yup. The trailer is how I know my boat has never
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:21 AM
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Seen salt water, because this POJ would be a pile of ferrous oxide under a boat if it had.
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That and original exhaust risers still in great shape.***
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:22 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81249]
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We've talked about these before.
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:26 AM
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in Salt water if you get 5 years out of a set of risers, you are on borrowed time.
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Oil bath hubs are your friend. I can't help you with your
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:26 AM
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poverty drum brakes though. Of course, I haven't used mine in two years and am getting ready to take my boat out so I can replace the transducer mount with a stainless one this week, so it'll probably fall apart. Hopefully the 8 year old tires will hold up for the couple of miles I've got to go.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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I greased the bearing a few weeks ago
Jul 31, 2023, 10:01 AM
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last time I greased them was last year....so they looked good.
I inspected the leaf springs, my tires are less than a year old. Yeah, it's always a concern. Some people pull my boat with a double axle, but I have the single axle. I probably averaged 69 mph, but I hit 80 a few times as well.
Only had 2 problems ever, boat were tires giving out. 1 in 2016? and 1 last year.
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Oculus Spirit [81249]
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I pulled mine up to Clemson in 2021.
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:20 AM
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Had all 4 tires fail OTW up there.
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I'd also be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to the boys
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Jul 31, 2023, 9:42 AM
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in the shop over at Garmin. They had my electronics so dialed in that my forward facing sonar was actually looking into the mouths of fish. At that point I was all like "let's just match the hatch Bo!" and all we had to do was pick out the jig with a green pumpkin skirt and a Reaction Innovations Big Texan Sweet Beaver trailer and we started a feeding frenzy so intense the folks on nearby docks thought it was white bass in the jumps lol.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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That shallow stuff, I turned the electronics off
Jul 31, 2023, 9:45 AM
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but I did use the livescope around the barges where I caught my big smallie.
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check out my insta at
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:06 AM
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fishing_"first name"
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Re: Bass Tourmanent Recap
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Jul 31, 2023, 10:23 AM
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Where are the dogs?
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Oculus Spirit [97838]
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Where dem fish at? I don't see nary a fish in your pigs.
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Jul 31, 2023, 12:17 PM
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You say you got 3 nice ones, and all I see is an interstate, a marina, and a boat on the water.
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