Author: Mike Cheatham
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17th at Cedar….but…SAD..
Maybe I shouldn’t confess the attachment I have with my fishing tackle, and I hope some of you understand, but I struggle when I lose my “friends”. This weekend at the KBF Cedar Creek event I lost another friend landing a monster 8 inch bass among the standing timber. The…
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they pointed at my boat and asked….
“How does that do in all these weeds?” “Do you have any trouble in the grass? “How are those fins doing here, any trouble?” Just a few of the questions I was asked in LaCrosse as I pedaled my Hobie Mirage Drive in, around and through all of the Wisconsin…
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apology….to Joy…
I was sitting here yesterday, crying about my finish in the LaCrosse Open. My Joy kept telling me to stop, that it was just one day, one tournament….I was deaf to her support…to anything. Totally selfish and more than a bit self-absorbed. All I could think about was staying in…
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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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