Author: Mike Cheatham
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the 2018 Hobie Open…as fished by me.
The sun was not yet up. Two fish were already on the phone, pics ready for submittal. Three more had exploded on the $1 white WalMart buzzbait with a chartreuse tail (tail up as always), two coming unpinned after a couple of cranks on the Shimano Sahara mounted on a…
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5 YEARS…5K…5000 MILES…
I had just logged over 5000 miles in May attending KBF tournaments in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida (not to mention fishing before or after work) when questions were asked of me. “What do you get out of it?” I knew what KBF means to me, what kayak fishing had…
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Alberto couldn’t stop 114 inches!
For the first trip in a while, nothing fell off the truck or the boat; no tires blew out…and no animals ran into me! I made the trip to the Stick Marsh in Florida, stayed in the basement of a house in Melbourne Beach without incident. Well, there was the…
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Mousquitos, Senkos and Deer; oh my!
LaCrosse Wisconsin; ten and a half hours from Tennessee…sounds like a nice drive (up, never home). Fish infested waters everywhere you look, great weather expected; ice finally gone…ok. KBF open coming up in a few months; never been…so a chance to learn before then…sweet. All of these were reasons to…
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Even Jordan missed some shots….
WELL……. To say I am satisfied with my place in the KBF Santee Cooper Open would be false; I will never feel ok with 69th place…and this was my worst performance since discovering KBF. Last week I placed 5th on Kentucky Lake….69 was a major let down. I kept telling…
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ooooooh that smell….
I wanted to write about last weekend, and am finally dry enough to feel comfortable with my hands on the keyboard. It was the most miserable day. My rain suit failed about three hours into the constant rain….everything was soaked….and now my Nissan smells like wet socks, wet shirts, wet…
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No woulda, coulda, shoulda…nope..
Woke up, left Clarksville…12:30 ish in the morning, drove to Guntersville for a KBF event. I pulled into an empty parking lot about 4 am and started to question my choice. I had fished the same spot my only other time at Guntersville; recording a mediocre limit, but still expected…
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7th place trophy…….
On March 9th, I posted a pic from the internet of my first Hobie. It was a Hobie Hustler skateboard from the 70’s, not the original I owned. It was almost the same color as the PA12 we purchased from Caney Fork Outdoors, and I had ridden it for a…
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APR overboard….
I am going to share the technique(s) I used during the National Championship; or more accurately, the discussion I had with several folks after exposing the lure I used. Now before this goes on, there are hundreds of ways to do anything….this is just about what worked for me in…
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gotta find the right perspective…
I just finished the 2018 KBF National Championship (7th place– shameless self promoting) and thought I would share something I wrote during the week of pre-fishing. Had I not gained a little perspective, I would have crashed and burned…………. _________________ Last weekend, I was all over them…I could do nothing…
Topwater Moon 