Pre Party: Stats and 3rd Degree – Bearway to heaven
Conditions: Clear, Cold 35 degrees just the way the big bass like it pre-spawn baby. Get the red lipless crank baits ready! Day 2 of the bassmaster classic is on!
Pax: 11 Pax Gaylord Focker, Ragdoll, Old Hickory, Stats, Little Miss piggy, Scrooge, 3rd Degree, TV guide, Kermit, Typo O positive guided by Q Show Me decided to come out for what they thought was going to be a little leisurely bank fishing but they were wrong. That ain’t how its done on the elite series. Anglers go hard.
Warm Up:
15 – SSH (IC)
15 – Arm Circles Forward (IC)
15 – Arm Circles Backward (IC)
15 – Merkins Low and Slow (IC)
15 – Squats (IC)
Q Asked PAX if they knew what day it was. After a few failed guesses Q informed them Day 2 of the Classic! Lets get it!
Mosey to Breakfast where thanks to Stats we were reminded that tournaments can’t be won on Day 2 but they can be lost! Go hard!
Q asked what every Fisherman has to do before they hit the water? Breakfast!
Thang 1 : Breakfast. Sun rise sampler x 5
5 – Dips
5 – Derkins
5 – HRCS
5 is a really important Number come tournament time…. We need 5 Big ones in the livewell at the end of the day so we got to do some running. Since we don’t have the boat we’ll have to get it done the old fashion way….
Thang 2: Lake RUN (AKA Suicides on Tennis Court) x 5 rounds
Now that we’ve done a little bit of Running we do what every elite series angler does. Throw in another big dip of Copenhagen baby.
Thang 3: 49 Dips – for the 49th annual bassmaster classic on the Tennessee River in Knoxville this weekend!
Sometimes you do a bunch of running and things don’t work out on a particular spot like you think they would. Maybe the water got dirty over night or the fish you had found in practice moved. PAX followed Q on a mosey to a new fishing hole since the gates were open to the field but the frost ruined the spot. So we had to do what good anglers do and what good dads, fathers, and husbands have to do daily. ADJUST! Gotta fish the water you’re dealt…..
Thang 4: Graphing….. We did some more running because our fish kept moving and so we did too. Pax did a mosey to a pseudo bridge where Q challenged Pax to duck walk half and Bear crawl Half. Q and Pax were unsure how we connect this to bass fishing but Ducks are a good bait!
Mosey to the Parking Lot where Pax finally were able to settle down a few key spots we’d nailed down through our lake searching…. Graphing pays off in the end!
Thang 5: 4 Corners.
Q should have connected Pax 4 Corners to our own 4 Corners Marina on Percy Priest but we’ll save Percy Priest for later….
Round 1 – 7 Burpees at each parking lot corner while moseying between corners
Round 2 – 14 Flutter Kicks at each corner
Round 3 – 21 Merkins at each corner
Mosey back to the lot for Mary
Mary
The 1972 Bassmaster classic was held on our own Percy Priest Lake. This weekend marks only the 2nd time its ever been to the state of Tennessee. So we decided to honor the legacy
19 – WW1
72 – Flutter Kicks (IC) Q had to take a few breaks to make it all the way but we finished!
COT
Remember Gaylords Mom as she battles memory loss along with Polar Express as he comes back from triple bypass. Lift of Gaylord and Cheezwiz both as they strive to be good leaders in their families during difficult times. Typo O and others Q included will be traveling this week for Spring Break. As its brought to your mind lift up those who will be on the roads as traveling can be really stressful.
Lets all embrace the good Spring weather God’s giving us right now and do our best to get outdoors with our neighbors and be salt and light in our communities.
Upcoming announcements: 2nd F next Thursday at the new Mexican restaurant will be headed up by 3rd Degree. 2nd F next Saturday a gun range trip headed up by Stats!
Post Party: 3rd Degree, Ragdoll, TV Guide, Stats, Little Miss Piggy and Kermit wanted to catch some bigger fish and since they got the draw for the second flight in they headed to the democratic national convention to do so.
1 Minute Al Gore, 30 Seconds of Bernie Sanders (Politician Backwards) and 30 Seconds of Hilary Rodham Clintons.
Their rods were sore from all the hook sets after that for sure!
Fisherman were some of the first disciples Jesus called. They are hard core dudes. Franklin may have kicked our tails last week at Convergence but we are better for it. Keep up the good work guys and keep on castin!