Harris Chain - I BAILED on my plan (Tournament Recap) 

Oh wow! Haha that is wild!!! Memphis used to be so good!

Lol. Ok.

For sure! Yes, I get stubborn sometimes ;)

Thanks for the visit

I know I was slacking big time

@@kristinefischer2289 ya i thought early on you were just sort of reeling into the fish. you usually bust em!

Thanks Dawn!

Ah thank you so much! Attitude is key, for fishing AND life, I’m a big believer in that! I need to try to do that, I’ll make an effort to get one posted !

@@kristinefischer2289 I know you stay busy especially with tournament season back at full swing so whenever you have free time I'd really appreciate that. No rush, though... I'll for sure keep an eye out for it!

Wonderful!!! Im so excited for it! Hope so too!

I know! Usually I play it safe and stick to my plan but I got a wild hair on this one. I figure if you want to win sometimes you’ve got to gamble 😂

Appreciate that! It was a stacked field for sure! Not the finish I was hoping for but that’s ok! Had a great time!

It has to be hooked in a sporting manner.

Thank you! We all have those days !

Thank you! Cheers!

I know haha I felt weak on this one! Good luck with that yak!

@@kristinefischer2289 one day I'll be floating out there doing the data also... got it flipped over now just added 3 coat of slick 2000!!! It's like a wet booger slipping over all that pad action grass gators 🐊 etc plus add a layer of protection I need.. these ascends be Kinda skinny in plastics so anything bumps it now it won't dog gouge of scrap like before.. it was so grippy before now it's like a wet booger... but wit yak trailer I have plan for that as well so it's locked Tight to that dude and wit straps going over yak to other side of trailer.. man I can't swing a high speed trailer yet!!!! In 4-5 months be own like a ham bone 🍖 them ones you guys sporting is Sweet!!! You and your husband need any of them scat scouts or epic poops 💩 I have two lures molds.. I make my own now epic stuff why I quit tournaments for two years Made a epic lure making shop and sold my skeeter 🦟 and got this yak... being in Oklahoma in all.. but we don't get raptured OUTa here soon I'll hit them big ones in a year and see what's going on... but them DEPs scouts are insane for some smallies and all bass... man they crush em here and in Texas.. also have a hellgrammite lures mold 4-5in you and friends in them creeks would CRUSH smallies on em

Doesn't seem like a hook set ever really, just pulls back.

@@jimoconnor8597 I was thinking the same thing! I’ve always been the one to let them have it when I know they got it in their mouths lol.

Depends on the bait- setting the hook too hard will pop their mouth open too wide and not let the hook point find the meat. Let the point find the meat and then give a good steady pull.

@@cuivre2004 Well that didn’t work did it?

@@cuivre2004 PS Watch a few minutes of MLF, all those pros fishing anything but a crank bait or swim bait would disagree. Soft plastics get a full hook set.

I think I would be putting a floating fly of some description on their heads. There is footage of Lee Wulff from many decades ago in Minipi, Labrador (Lee Wulff was sort of the o.g. in the freshwater kayak fishing sport I would argue). Except Lee didn't use parking lots. He un-bolted the two halves of his kayak and attached them to either leg of his airplane instead. And then flew around above water in the province searching for places to fish for Brook trout. If one reads Lee's literature from the nineteen fifties decade now. What he talks about are search baits that he used, that could be like 'sea gulls' he called them. Notice the way that fish had cleared the water about a foot in order to savage at some bait that was well off the water. The truth about floating fly lures, is they often land with a motion through the air. The resembles one of those World War Two gliders coming in to land in Europe. That is often the trigger for those kinds of strikes (the fish is tracking the lure like a missile air defense system). They're not thinking just like submarine commanders, they think in terms of air defenses too. As gear anglers, the assumption that gear anglers fall into. Is that 'top water' fishing has to involve something that starts to fish only when it hits 'the water'. The point about the floating fly lures, or the sea gulls as Lee Wulff used to call them. Is to create some ominous looking silouhette or shape that fish can track over head as it glides in the air. And fish frequently smash the bait as it lands (not like a hard plastic top water, but like something totally different). When you can get that close to fish in a kayak, it's an obvious change of tactic. Notice the clarity of the water there too. Certain shad at certain times of the year do aerial acrobatics too (it's part of the spawning behavior of bait fish to aerialize themselves like seagulls or tiny airplanes). Frank Scalish says some even fire themselves out of the water and up on to dry land. So bass are opportunistic and will hunt for them along the edges.

Kelly J Bostian in OK had a short piece with Dave Whitlock, his foam popper is an interesting bait (no kayak guys have ever mastered that). The ideal thing is where the cast aims for an elevation of around the top of the reeds. And when the line is restricted at the end of the cast, the foam popper gently settles down on the surface on the edge of reeds.

That is another angler that creates bass guide poppers and flies, Alvin Dedeaux. His Dedeaux Popper, or Flip Flop Popper (assuming that the sponge material is sourced from footwear items), being one of those. I still have a hunch that many of the bass anglers are missing the thing, of where their flies are even made more lightweight and subtle that using flip flop foam material to float. There are some of the bucktails and deer hairs that can be employed to make them even lighter than that (where perhaps the front half of the fly could use a small front half of a floating swimbait plastic too). And the rear portion is made of some kind of hair material (in other words, to create something like a bass hair jig, that uses a soft plastic swimbait piece for the jig head instead lead weight). Don't know if it would function or not. That water in Florida as shown (the top of water is like absolute 'glass' on that occasion in February 2023), suggests some different kind of approach to me.

@@academicmailbox7798 Bruh

David Quam salvaged some old sixteen millimeter footage from the late forties or early fifties. Where Lee Wulff traveled by airplane to Newfoundland and into Labrador in search of brook trout. I remember it was published in 2010, I must have come across it some time after. It was entitled 'Wings for an Angler'. Worth a look at, to see what kayak anglers were doing then. I looked at the Hermit company too (they fish for Artic Char, which is a salmonoid species like Brook Trout, Grayling, Whitefish, Salmon etc that live even further north in Greenland and Iceland). The Hermit guys had a fly making vice for use on location. For making their Artic Char fishing flies, they refer to as the Palmer fly tying vice. It's something I started to do a bit more in the past decade, was to make small adjustments to hooks and tackle closer to the water, and the time of fishing. I'm still not totally bought into the concept. However, one can see Lee Wulff and these early kayak angling pioneers who did lure making on the water, even back then.

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Abu and Fenwick!

Yes! I have one 8610XSV for livescope and one 106SV for the rest- if you got to my 2023 kayak rigging video I have them linked. The 8610 is actually a salt unit but has amazing resolution and pixels for Ffs.

@@kristinefischer2289 ok great thank you so much for the info i love your videos👍🏻