Fishing Korea & Tennessee

I drove out to the river last Saturday to check out the ice and snow, and witnessed a rare event when a small deer ran out in front of me and crossed the road.  It was only the third one I’ve seen over here (in the wild) in eight years.  Since traffic was light, I immediately parked on the side of the road and jumped out in an attempt to snap a pic, but by that time it had run off into the brush and all that was left were its tracks in the snow.     

It’s not even January yet and I’m already getting cabin fever!  I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to you all!!   

The last couple of weeks I have fished on the Nakdong river in Busan. One week (Nov 27th) I fished in a tournament. I won’t say too much about that because I only caught one keeper, but I can make a small 12 inch bass look much bigger…lol

In that same tournament somebody caught on heck of a nice bass. It was 59cm and was caught on a weighted wacky rigged worm. This guy only came in 2nd place even with a nice bass like this….

The following weekend I fished with a Korean buddy of mine. He wanted to show me some good fishing spots on the river, a river that I have only fished a few times, so I‘ll take all the help and pointers I can get! We headed out around 10:00am and it was mighty cold when driving a boat into a cold wind at over 55mph. We fished a few deep spots first with jigging spoons at fish we saw on the fish finder, but either they weren’t bass or they just were interested.

In the early afternoon the wind calmed down a little and it got a little warm, so we fished some shallow channels and started catching a few fish. Nothing huge, but it was fun. Here’s a series of photos my buddy took of my playing a bass.

That was the biggest of the day, but here’s a few small ones.

Hey all, I’ve finally gotten situated here in Indiana and have had quite a few chances to get out. I’m moving to the West coast here in a few weeks, so I’ve tried to hit my home waters as much as possible. I’ve had a few really good days and wanted to share some photos with you guys!

My dad and brother planned a Steelhead trip for me two days after I arrived. We woke up at 3:30 and I was jet-lagging a bit, but we hit the river hard, and boy, did it pay off! We had 22 fish between the three of us, and I was 9 for 11. I landed two at 11 pounds and 1 at ten. (5 kilos and 4.5 kilos) It was the best day of fishing ever and a great homecoming. Here’s a picture of the first dime-bright chromer that came to the boat. as well as a colored-up buck that came a few hours later!

Beyond that, I’ve been doing a lot of brown-trout chasing, both on fly and with spinners. This past week I got into 7, with this guy being the best. They’re super aggressive this time of year, as they’re getting ready for winter. Super fun to catch!

I’ve tried a couple times for largemouth, but they’re pretty quiet these days. Going for walleye and smallies this next week. Hope to get into some!

Hope with the weather, all of you are still able to get out and are still catching fish! I still stop by from time to time to check on how you guys are doing!

Good luck and tight lines!

-Scott

I fished the Andong Master Classic last Sunday. I usually fish the practice day on Saturday, but this time my little girl had a dancing tournament on the Saturday and I wasn’t brave enough to miss that!!  lol.

Anyway, despite going into the tournament totally clueless as to what the bass were doing, I managed to catch a bunch of bass, a few dinks, but mostly keeper size bass. My biggest 3 went 1,940g at the scales and was good enough for a top 10 place. I didn’t take many photos, but here’s a couple;

As you can see from the photos all my fish were caught on wacky 4” senkos or SureCatch Sniperspin spinnerbaits, either a chartreuse and black colored skirt, or on the one below;

I also won a waterproof bag in the random raffle drawing.

Last Saturday night (11:30pm), myself and 4 other guys from work met up and headed to the harbor. We were on the boat by around 1:00am Sunday morning and heading South about 40 minutes to a really popular rock/island in the middle of the ocean. We anchored up and started fishing for Amberjacks…….that’s about where the excitement ended. We were catching a few small mackerel, but with the tackle we were using we could hardly feel the fish on the end of the line.

As the sun came up, things started to pick up a little when the boat captain hooked into the first Amberjack of the day. Then, about 10 minutes later I hooked into one which put up an awesome fight!

It was about 25inches long and weighed in at 7lb / 3kg and was the last fish we caught until we packed up and headed home at 10:00am.

Once home I cleaned up and filleted the fish and put them in the freezer for another time.

This was the second time I went sea fishing for Amberjacks this year, and both times sucked…….I think I’ll stick with bass from now on, lol. TexMex, good luck to you guys when you go, I hope you have better luck than me!!

“Post from Scott “KimchiFly”.

We found a pod of schooling River Tarpon two weeks ago while bass fishing under a dam with some moving water. They were scattered at times, but at other times, they schooled together and were chasing smaller fish down. This fish smacked a large, silver lead-head c-tail jig. Like has been said in the past, not an amazing fight – but when they get this large – the first 30 seconds are pretty intense. There was a heck of a lot of thrashing and splashing. After that, it just kinda laid there until I could bring it to a spot where we could land it. My buddy actually had one on that was at least a foot longer than this one, but it broke his line.

We’re headed out for them one more time Sunday evening, so if we hit them again, I’ll send you more pictures.

I fished the KSA #5 tournament at Andong on the last weekend in September. This was the last points tournament of the 2011 season, and I was sitting in 16th after #4, so I have some work to do to try and get into the top 10.

Saturday; I had a good practice and found some good spots with some nice bass so I left the spots alone in the hope of some nice bass holding there for the Sunday tournament. The trouble with Andong this month was there were LOTS of dinks, and I mean dinks……I was catching bass the same size as my lure, 4 and 5 inches!!

The bass in the first photo was caught on a SureCatch Phantom topwater. During the retrieve I had one bass over 16 inches on each of the treble hooks. Unfortunately I only managed to land one of them. Second bass, a chunky 50cm, hit the same lure in about 2 foot of water.

Sunday; I headed South to my first spot. I only managed a couple of dinks, so I moved to the spot where I caught the 50cm on the previous day and caught my first keeper on the same topwater Phantom.

I then caught a bunch more dinks before eventually catching a “just” legal keeper of 12.1 inches, lol. In the end I only managed to catch the 2 keepers and that was good enough for 13th place on the day and that bumped me up to 11th overall for the year, missing the top 10 by just 6 points!!

I caught the below one near the end of the tournament on a SureCatch spinnerbait, but it was a gnat’s d!ck under size

This past Sunday my wife and I fished together in a local tournament down here in Busan. The weather was BAD with winds up to 30mph for most of the day. Due to the bad weather only 8 boats showed up and 7 of the boats were full bass boats. My boat was the smallest there and fishing from a 12 foot boat in those winds was not easy to say the least.

The good news is, that despite the strong winds, the bass were still in a feeding mood, the bad news is, we couldn’t seem to get most of the bass in the boat. My wife missed or lost several keeper bass at the side of the boat. We needed 5 bass at over 30cm, but we only managed to weigh in 3 keepers for 1,795g and 4th or 5th place (only the top 3 got money ).

Here’s a few photos…..

I think my big bass was the biggest caught on the day. I did catch a bonus fish, a ‘Noochi’, which is a bottom feeder on a spinnerbait. It put up a great fight.

Also, my sponsor, SureCatch Korea, was generous enough to donate 3 top end fishing rods, and I was proud to present them to 3 of the anglers.