What were your thoughts about the Champions Tournament?

You know, when I heard about it at first, I thought it sounds pretty lofty, you know, but I don't know.

I had more confidence in it than I hate to talk about stuff like that because I'm a positive person.

I want to highlight positive things.

But there were other things that happened early in the year.

Yes.

It was like, you know.

How do you – How do you square it up? If you could just lay a tournament trail out, what would you do?

jerald dropped out i think he uh he ruined it for all of us real quick how many times have you been on old hickory lake in your life i know you're in east in my life yeah how many times

Yeah, I fished an FLWS series there in 2006, shortly before I was goofing off at my last real job, the last real job I had working at the trucking place, and I broke this wrist.

So I fished that tournament.

I actually fished one before at Cumberland, but I fished a June tournament on Old Hickory that was really hot with a cast on, and I got a check.

I got a check with a cast, one-armed man in a butt-kicking contest.

Did you catch a

Remember those?

Yeah.

... up there, uh-

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And, and that was what I, what I kind of got to see, you know, and really put it into play.

I didn't, I didn't spend a ton of time on Erie, honestly, smallmouth fishing I pr- in practice.

I spent more of my time, um, you know, looking for places for largemouth just 'cause, I mean, I, I like that more, [laughs] honestly.

But two, you know, the wind-wise it was, it's a, generally a safer bet.

But what, what are you using?

And I had thought going in.

that that heat wave may push some fish into those places um you know but i think i truly think it's exactly what happens where i live you know so those fish you know when they when they spawn they get done spawning douglas lake out here they swim to deep water right i mean that's that's where they go to recover what's there's obviously there's two there's always twofold what a fish in my opinion is trying to do postponed one they're trying to feed back up and two they're trying to physically recover um if they're in hot water it's harder for them to recover um you know once they they can get back to a cooler water environment that's where they recover best.

And then it, then obviously there needs to be some food.

And a lot of times that food is kind of seeking the refuge of some cooler water at that point in time.

You know, if there's a shad spawn going on, there's some brim spawn, there's going to be some fish go to that and stay around that.

But I think that's kind of there.

you know, that's their natural cycle is that they're going to seek out a place of refuge to heal up, to rest up, to recover from the spawn and the stress of that on their bodies.

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