August 12, 2006  

“Grab your jocks and pull up your socks!  Time to kick some major league bass,” was the proclamation from Dennis Lothspeich as he continued his dominance through our tournament circuit.  By deftly keeping his Leech Lake fish alive for a month, Dennis was able to cull up to a limit weighing 21-13 making it two tournaments in a row with 20 pound bags.  Actually, all of Dennis’ fish came from well north of the Hwy 6 bridge and all were caught on a brown bruiser craw/tube.  He figures he caught 12-15 weigh-fish while holding his bunkie (Swanny) down to four fish.  Dennis, have you no sense of honor, doing the right thing, compensating for ineptitude?  Second place went to the man who really owns this lake with a third place the last time we were here, Edly Ott, who we figure will require an undertaker to get the smile off his face.  Earl’s bag was 20-14 and all were caught on black/blue jigs with a blue Larew plastic chunk as a trailer.  He figured he caught 15-18 keepers in all.  Ed and his bunkie, Mark Munson, put over 37 pounds of fish in the bucket.  Third went to everybody’s hero, me, with an 18-11 bag, all caught on the afore mentioned brown bruiser.  I caught just the six keepers.  Second, third, and fourth places all came from the same stretch of river, maybe a quarter mile long, on both sides.  That stretch also helped out the fifth and sixth place finishers, Hammer, who is still worthless to me, and Chuck Fields.  That same stretch was devoid of fish during prefishing.

 

                                                  SHORTS!

 

 

And now in our Phi Beta Cuckoo category, word is that Snatcher Dave Mahady pays his garbage man extra to go into his yard to gather the trash, unlike normal people that trundle it out to the street.  Well, along comes garbage day and Dave had taken the cover off his boat the day before and laid it across his garbage can.  The boys getting the big bucks to wander into Dave’s yard to collect his garbage know how important it is to maintain customer satisfaction and compacted everything on or in the trash.  Now Dave’s pissed and his boat is naked.  Dolt-of-the-year appears to be a slam dunk. 

Some of you may remember the famous safety speech given a few years ago after, in a different tournament circuit, a contestant ran his boat up the ass end of a fellow competitor and how important with us getting faster and bigger boats to be in control of your rig and avoid tailgating to help prevent such an occurrence in a club tourney.  You can ignore that.  The new way of operating safely now falls on the lead boat.  If you are in front and boats are following closely behind, do not shut down.  If you get to your start spot and boats are still following you must keep going until no one is behind you.  Then you can double back and commence fishing. 

Being back at Pokegama reminded me to check on Adam Henkensiefken’s mental condition following the famous, “Hey, wanna see my wiener?” remark he got from Ziebell the last time we were there.  Adam is still in therapy and still has some flashbacks but is doing pretty well over all. 

Here’s a mental image for you.  Ghee and Beck are fishing together.  Ghee stabs a fish and Chas leaps for the net (Chas leaping is not the mental image), trips, falls on and breaks one of his rods.  He’s down long enough that Ghee finally hoists the fish in and deposits it on his downed partner.  It is only after all this happens that Ghee finally asks Beck if he’s okay. 

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were cold but after starting a fire in their craft, it sank which proves once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it, too. 

Wanted to buy – Boat cover for a Ranger bass boat.  Contact Dave Mahady. 

Nothing else gnu, men.  See you on Pelicrap, Sunday. 

Ruff