Author: Mike Cheatham
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Patience vs senseless hope….
Haven’t written a post for a bit, work is wearing me out…then I was sick last week….so, going to catch up. Starting with the more positive events………then to one of my bigger disappointments for the year…. 1. Two weeks ago, I fished in the KBF Kentucky Lake tournament out of…
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HOT – ’nuff said….
Disclaimer….this post may ramble ’cause the heat has made me a bit delirious according to my Joy… HOT. I really do not know what else to say about the last three days of fishing. HOT, HOT, HOT….I guess saying it three times is not really saying anything different. On Friday…
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Connect Scale….email???
I was sitting in a meeting with some sheet metal vendors, pretending to be a manufacturing engineer instead of an avid angler, discussing costs. It was one of hundreds of meetings I attend in the role that keeps me in food and clothing between (and during) tournaments; during a lull…
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Voices and Buzzin’ in my head…
Home from Arkansas and the KBF Grand/Beaver Lakes Open. I listed Grand Lake first, because the majority of the top finishers were on that lake; most fishing the same area. I chose to fish Beaver Lake – well, I chose to pre fish on Beaver Lake first then asked for…
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from Guntersville to the depths of Ky Lake….
Quick story from Guntersville, Alabama….a mediocre performance; it seems my standard for the fishery…then a little about today. I drove down to Alabama late Friday night, arriving at Mudd Creek boat ramp around 1 a.m. Saturday morning. It was a bit early, so I thought I would catch a quick…
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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…
