15 Ounces Cost Me 2000$! FLW Costa Kentucky Lake Day 2

Big and big and big and big. Yes sir. Yes. Yes. Dude those go a long way this week. Big I think. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Look at that one. Spot's gonna be 15? 14. Okay so I have had plenty of time now to reflect on this Kentucky Lake tournament. Basically when I went up there I went up there with the pre-determined way that I was going to fish. And I thought I was going to be fishing main river, current, a lot. I thought this fish would be pre-spawn out on the main river big time. Thought there would be a lot of current and I thought that the water would be a little stained. When I got there I realized that there was no current, the water was clear and the fish were definitely on the main river. Problem is I couldn't figure out how to make them bite consistently. So almost all of practice as y'all saw I fished in creeks. I fished a little on the main river because I really just thought if I didn't find anything I would just run main river stuff all day. So basically in practice I try to fish a lot of docks, a lot of creeks, a lot of different water color. Try to find some current in some creeks. I never found anything good in creeks at all. So I said I'm just going to run the main river. Did go over to Barkley once. Twice actually. And I found that one giant 6 pounder and that was kind of a ghost fish. I went over there. There was a lot of current that day. The water was stained. I caught that one cranking. I just thought that I was on fish like the whole rest of that day. That's probably 4 or 5 more hours of straight cranking main river bank like I did to catch that one and never had another bite. That was kind of a ghost fish. Kind of wasted half a day of practice. The turtle was actually one on the same exact place that I fished the All American in 2012. Behind this one island. On day 2 I caught almost 14 pounds which is not a lot but that was the biggest bag. That was the second biggest bag of day 2 in the All American. I caught them all on the same exact spot where the dude won this tournament. I thought about going over there 3 or 4 times but in the back of my head I just said you cannot win at a Barkley. So I stayed on Kentucky Lake. I elected to run the same. Basically what I was trying to find was any kind of a different type of chunk rock that was deep or any kind of pea gravel that really really dropped off into the main river. So basically you would find these really really hard and defined pea gravel little washouts and then they would drop off extremely extremely fast and you would slow roll a crankbait or swimbait by them and you could usually catch a fish off almost every single one of them. But they were all short. I just had to figure eventually that was the only place I could get bites. So I had to figure eventually I would catch 5 fish. Day 1 I caught more fish than I caught all every day of practice combined. I caught a ton of short fish. I hadn't been running those kind of areas in practice. I was kind of saving them for a tournament because I knew the fish lived there. So when I finally ran it, I got all those bites. I was like I'm going to catch 5 today. At some point I have to. I'm just going to catch 5 15 inchers. I mean there's just no way I'm not. It never happened. Actually I caught that first keeper that I had. I never even measured it. It was like a 15 incher but it was super fat. It's the one where I said I got one. They threw it in the bump tank, measured it. They swiped the tail 3 times it didn't touch. So I was like I never measured that fish. I never measured it. I just looked at it and said that's a 15 incher. He flipped it over and it barely touched it in the bag. I was like thank God. I did not. I thought I was going to lose that fish and have a 2 pound penalty. So that was awful. Anyways Day 2 my plan was I was going to run the high percentage points that I had fished on Day 1. Like the super good ones that I knew I would get a bite off of or I was like real confident I would get a bite off of. Then I was going to go to that marina where I caught the fish and then I would have like 3 quarters of the day left to really either go to Barkley and fish current or if I got some bites I would know what's going on. So the first point I pull up to, boom, catch one almost 4 pounds. Second point I go to, boom, catch a 3 pounder. So now I'm like okay I caught all these short fish yesterday. Today the bigger ones have pulled up. Because it's pretty small and the fish are trying to pull up. There's going to be one day where all of a sudden they just head to the bank and then they're just there. So, basically those 2 fish gave me the false hope to stay around and run what I was running on Day 1. So that's what I did. I ran pretty much the almost same exact water. I dialed it in to a little bit more of the higher percentage stuff. But I mean it kind of gave me false hope and that's kind of what made me waste Day 2. But anyways, we ended up 41st place out of 148 or 150 something like that. So 41st place, we did not get a check. We actually missed a check by 15 ounces. So if I would have had one more pound, I would have got a check. I knew that at 7.15. I caught both of them fish on this video first thing in the morning. By 7.15 I knew I needed one more 2 pounder to get a check. So, basically Day 1 I caught 2 on a Senko Texas Rig and I caught all them short fish. I lost 2 on a jig. That definitely would have helped. But then I lost, I caught a bunch on a Senko and a bunch on a jig and some on a rig on Day 1. On Day 2, I caught that 4 pounder on a jig and I caught that 3 pounder on a 5.8 inch Kytec in Tennessee Shad with a quarter ounce head and a 5 ounce hook. That's only weighed in 4 keepers. So that's all I could do. Nobody in the whole tournament weighed in the limit each day. I think the guy who won caught 10 fish. I think so. He might have caught 11. But 10 fish in 3 days. That just shows how bad that lake is. Anybody who's trying to go to Kentucky Lake, don't do it. Go anywhere else you can go. Right now it might actually be fun to be there because there are some super, super big fish in that lake. And they probably are spawning as we speak. So right now it might be fun to be there because you might find one of those giants on bed. But I would not do it. I ain't going there. I'm not going there fun fishing. I guarantee you that. But anyways, it's beautiful here. You can see behind me, all the trees are green. They're bedding on Chickamauga. And that's where we're going. I'll see y'all next time.