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Archive for May 2008

May 20th, 2008

New Old Hickory Smallmouth Record

     Rich Lindgren wrote a post letting us all know that a buddy of his, Billy Harris, has broken the Old Hickory Lake Smallmouth Bass record with a nice 7lb. monster. To check out Rich’s posting, click here.

Way to go Billy! - www.billyharrisbasspro.com
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By Don Zaegel -- 2 comments

May 18th, 2008

Sweet Redemption’s A 6th Place Finish

     To understand why a 6th place finish would be sweet redemption, you have to know the history of me and the Upper Chesapeake Bay. Last year going into this same tournament I was sitting 3rd in the points standings. The Bay proved tough for most of the field including me. Unfortunately I zeroed and dropped to […]

By Don Zaegel -- 9 comments

May 18th, 2008

Joke - “The Fishing Trip”

Here is a pretty good fishing joke that I read the other day. It gave me a quick little chuckle. It was called. “The Fishing Trip”.
A woman is in bed with her lover who also happens to be her husband’s best friend. They make love for hours, and afterwards, while they’re just laying there, the […]

By Don Zaegel -- 2 comments

May 18th, 2008

Fred Roumbanis Wins on Murray

     Speaking of American Eagle Rods, more good news came out of their camp this weekend as Pro-Staffer, Fred Roumbanis won the BASS Elite Series event on Lake Murray over this past weekend. His win is the first in 2008 and his 2nd BASS victory. To check out the details of his victory and all of the […]

By Don Zaegel -- 0 comments

May 18th, 2008

My New American Eagle Rods

      I just got a few new rods the other day from American Eagle Rods. I am trying to get ready to do some grass mat flipping, deep water jigging and some chunking and winding. Here are some photos of the new rods.
  
The above picture is of my 6′6 Medium Heavy, Xtreme Elite (XE) […]

By Don Zaegel -- 0 comments

May 18th, 2008

The “Strange” and The “Bad”

     This weekend was a little bit of everything. It had it’s fare share of good, bad, and strange. Rather than get into rambling about everything let me quickly tell you what the bad and the strange was and then go into details about the good.
Strange - Thursday during pre-fishing, I made a 30 minute run up into the back of […]

By Don Zaegel -- 0 comments

May 12th, 2008

R.I.P Dottie

     Atleast she died of her own natural causes and not because of a gill net or someone catching and taking her home. She gave the fishing community a few good thrills throughout her lifetime and surely left behind some good genes to populate Dixon with. For those of you who are not familiar with Dottie, she […]

By Don Zaegel -- 1 comment

May 11th, 2008

JVD Slips In 2nd Southern Open

     In the 2nd BASS Southern Open of the year, Jonathon VanDam finished a lowly 126th place this weekend on Santee Cooper Lakes in South Carolina. The young VanDam only caught 3 bass for 9-5 lbs. in an event that was shortened to two days after being cancelled on day 2 due to a storm which produced very […]

By Don Zaegel -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Casey Ashley “Fisherman” Video

     I know that most of us have already heard this by know, but for those of you who haven’t and for those of you who would just like to hear it a couple of times again, here you go. The song was written by country music superstar Rodney Clawson and sang and recorded by BASS […]

By Don Zaegel -- 5 comments

May 8th, 2008

The Worst Boat Ride Ever

     Now look Frank, I understand that you are new to boat ownership, but what were you thinking? Sorry but I am going to have to share this.
     A buddy of mine who’s first name I will mention (Frank) and I went out on the Potomac River yesterday. Frank had recently just purchased a new ‘08 […]

By Don Zaegel -- 2 comments

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