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That is a great bass especially for Jordanelle!
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I used to N.ot have E.nough T.ime O.ff to go fishing. Then I retired. Now I have less time than I had before. Sheesh.
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Good job Kent!
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Always good to be out on the water with you. I was stoked to see you catch that personal best. What you didn't tell them was that you caught the top 2 yesterday. Your 14 3/4 incher was also a bit bigger than my pair of 14 1/2ers. I posted a couple of additional pics of that fish along with one more of your 16 1/2er. We should have also taken a couple of pics of that jumbo perch you caught too. A few guys on here would have loved to see that one.
Overall, it was a decent catching day and if I can't get back up this year, a good way to close things on an outstanding year at Jordanelle. If we have decent water this winter, it might be incredible there next season.
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Not a bad SMB for Jordanelle these days...nice job!
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I had to call in sick so I could go to Lake Powell!
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Nice Bass ...... If things work the way they hope, that place will be a pretty diverse fishery.
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Good lookin' smallmouth! Congrats on the PB.
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[#0000FF]Glad to see you are not wasting all of that precious "free time" you now have...since retirement.
Nice bass.
I clearly recall the first trip you took TubeBabe and I to Jordanelle...right after our return from Arizona. Since the lake had been built and filled while we were gone, that was our first exposure.
I also remember how you were trying Senkos for the first time. Chortle guffaw. You quickly became an expert in "whiffing"...as you let the fish cruise up the shoreline without a hookset. And now you are teaching others that you don't always wait for a hard strike before snapping your wrist and planting the hook.
One of my favorite lines from the movie Jeremiah Johnson is "You've come a long way, Pilgrim."
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"As for his early efforts with senkos on lake X, that was when there were a gazillion perch up there and they were probably nibbling on the end, causing his hooking futility."
[#0000FF]Yeah verily, there was an abundance of perchkind. But the fish packing the plastic were smallmouths. I caught several and even my wife did well. But Kent was still waiting for a real "nightcrawler bite" such as he had experienced while learning to fish for trout. In recent reminiscences and discussions with him, he reflects that recognizing, detecting and reacting to subtle bites is usually the toughest part of the learning curve for many rookies.
Happily, he did pick up on watching the line and using a rapid hookset to get connected.
Kent has always been a student of new tactics and techniques...and he learns rapidly and well. And, like a true sportsman, he pays it forward by willingly teaching others. He is a good friend and a good example to us all.
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