Octoberfest Smallmouth Day - October 25th, 2020

Starting Off Right - October 21st, 2020

Finally On The Right Side Of The Cold Front - October 16th, 2020

A Day To Catch Up With An Old Friend - October 15th, 2020

High a Pressure Front, Tough Bite, Amazing Scenery - October 13th, 2020

Near Misses on a Perfect Autumn Day - October 12th, 2020

Beautiful fall day on Moomaw. My first time there in 5 years. It is a special place. I caught 10 Smallies and a lmb but I had a sold 18 plus break me off on a tree and had two more big Smallies chase and not hit. Really impressed with Hughes draft and Perkins Point. Fish came off of flukes and the water was down about 2 feet from summer pool. 

Good Fall Bite Day on Bluestone - October 9th, 2020

Good day on Bluestone using flukes in clear water. We caught 15 plus a lot of solid keepers. Nothing bigger than 16” but we did see a couple bigger fish come up and chase. 

Tough Day on the Stone - September 30th, 2020

Greg Nahodil and I fished Bluestone for a couple of hours on this Wednesday morning. We caught a couple first thing off cranks on pit bank then ran to Bull Falls. The water coming down the New was way up and stained. We struggled there. Next we ran to Bertha and picked up a few more. We went back to pit bank and the wind ran us off early by 11. I would guess we had 8 total and all under 13”. 

Moncove Audible - September 23rd, 2020

Started off on beaver dam at Moncove at daybreak. Worked all the usual haunts and found nothing but grass and sticks. Loaded the boat up and went to Bull Falls at Bluestone, got there by 10:00am. Landed four and had three more chase with 15 minutes. Went on to catch 10 with a couple better fish. Had a big one hit and miss the fluke. The fish where in the middle of the river mostly, there and edges. I also had a small musky chase. We shoulda came here first thing this morning. Bull falls was clear and lower lake was stained and down, kinda strange. 

Battle of Bluestone Day 2 - September 13th, 2020

I started off the day back in 14th place out of 60 anglers. I knew I needed to fish clean, fast, and hard to move up into the top 6 in the money. I stayed with my fluke bite where I left off yesterday. I caught 21 fish from 7am to 8am. I was catching a ton of short fish but eventually I started weeding them out and catching some bigger ones. I got a 16.0” and then four 13” fish to go with it. I had the best limit for day two and moved up to finish in the money in 4th place. Jared and I finished in 4th place team. I ended up catching 67 fish this day, bringing my two day tournament fish total to 104 fish in under 13 hours of fishing with an average fish per minute of 7.5. At the end of it all the couple quality fish I missed hurt my chances of winning. I ended up 4.5” back of Blaine Winters who won on the back of a 19” largemouth he caught on day one on the New River. 

Battle of the Bluestone Day 1 - September 12th, 2020

Day one of the two day Battle of Bluestone was held on the New River. Water and weather was fabulous for September. Jared Meadows and I fished the two man team division together. We floated from upper Shanklins down to the Mouth of Indian Creek. The plopper bite was off in clear water but the fluke bite was on. I landed an 18.25” and a 14” and a 13” but I had two elevens that I could not cull. I had a 14” break me off and had another 16” hit but not yet cooked. I saw a huge smallie look and chase but not take. After day one I was in 14th place and Jared and I were in 6th place teams. Fun day that I caught 37 fish on but just could not cull those two 11” fish. 

Humid and Hot on Claytor - September 2nd, 2020

Caught a few early before it got hot on a fluke. Then things got really tough on this hit and humid day.