Regional Finals at Smith Mountain Lake VA

    Before I get to fishing let me first catch you up to speed about my regions.My regions consisted of four divisions the Buckeye, South Carolina, Volunteer, and lastly the Northeast division which was my division. Throughout the season each of these four division had a total of five tournaments with the last being a two tournament also known as a super tournament. Now, out of the these four divisions the top 40 from the boater and the co-angler divisions moved onto the regional. LETS FISH!!!


10/13/11 First day.

     My first day of fishing started off pretty slow well actually really slow because I wasn't catching anything. My boater and I went from dock to dock, point to point, and cove to cove still to no avail. After doing this for an hour or two, my boater finally hooked into a decent size largemouth which kinda broke the ice for the both of us mainly because it showed that the fish were actually where we were fishing, it was now time for me to catch something.

          Catching something was not going to be easy, especially since I had already been fishing for about two hours and still had not caught a thing nor had a bit. It was now time to stop fishing and really think about the present conditions in which we were up against. After a few minutes of really thinking about the conditions I took the setup of my pole and re rigged with a Senko which I setup wacky style. Now, about this time my boater was parallel to a point which had a few docks along it and one of those docks was about 10 to 15 yards to my left. I whipped my pole back and landed a perfect cast right in front the dock BAAM, it was gonna be a good day. I ended up catching a total of three fish that day which landed me in 5th place going into day two.




Day Two

     I caught 5 fish that did not keep, and lost one 5 pounder that would have put in 4th place going into the finale day. And let me tell you what I will never live that moment down. But on the bright side of things I did place 22 in the regions which was a huge accomplishment for me, especially because it was my first year fishing in the BFL and in tournaments.


Thanks for reading.......

CHRIS