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Lake Alexander Summary 6-25-2006 Whew! Glad that one’s over with. After going thru $50 worth of craw/tubes, power worms, and Gamakatsus among other junk, 3:00 couldn’t come soon enough. Lots of fish, lots of dinks, lots of short fish, too. We had four limits under 7 lbs. Our lunker on Leech could be bigger than many bags from Alex. But, as usual, somebody always finds fish and in this case first and second came from the same boat. First place and lunker with 13-9 and 3-2 respectively went to Dennis Lothspeich. On their way to their start spot Dennis tied partner Nate Steinbauer’s shoelaces together ensuring the first cast when they got there. The first cast with a craw/tube in the cane produced the lunker for the tourney. Of course that meant spending the next ninety minutes pulling their collective puds trying for more cane fish. The city boy had the solution which got him second place with a 13-6 bag, as they moved to the milfoil on the east end. Pitching Texas-rigged Senkos (Nate rig) with fairly substantial weights they not only got the sweep but figured the six biggest culled fish they had would have been in the top six. Keep tampin’ boys. As Dennis noted after the tourney about the Nate rig in milfoil, “That sum bitch just came right through all that stuff.” Anyway, color made no difference and they were in 2 to 7 feet of water. Third place went to Mark Munson with a bag weighing11-7. I lost my notes but you can rest assured that Mark was throwing a jig, black/blue, probably around some docks and maybe some cane, and most definitely was not deeper than three feet. Hammer, you got fourth and you’re still worthless to me.
SHORTS !!!
A group of chess enthusiasts were standing in a hotel lobby bragging about their recent tournament victories. After about an hour the hotel manager came out and asked them to disperse. “But why?” they asked as they shuffled off. “Because”, he said, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.” The big bass pot will be worth at least $920 for a 5-8 or larger bass on Leech. I say at least because we may have a couple more jump in on Saturday pushing the pot to at or over $1000. A couple candidates have emerged for “Dolt-of-the-Year”. First, my Bunkie on Alex, Nate Hunter, when asking about baits we would use on the lake told me he was more of a walleye guy. I said, “Hell, if you’re a walleye guy, just grab some leeches and we’ll Lindy Rig all day.” It wasn’t till the end our conversation that I realized that he took me seriously and was going to pick some up. Also, Checkbook was prefishing on Alex with his wife when he proceeded to fall out of the boat (yes, again). They wanted to do the Landing for dinner so he apparently donned a pair of his wife’s shorts and in they went. As I have reported earlier, the above is not Dolt-of-theYear material. This is Checkbook. The dolt part is, why the hell would you tell anyone about it¿ There you have it, men. Not one of my best efforts but I’ve been short of time and my wrist is so crippled with gout I can’t wipe my own ass. To my Leech partner, Joe, don’t let that scare you. All my like, Ruff
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