Fishing Korea & Tennessee

Here’s photos of a very nice bass that Ron caught on Friday at Andong. I’ll let him tell the story.

Nice fish Ron!!

1. Tournament name: 2013 International Bass Open Tournament

2. Organizer: Korea Sport-fishing Association (K.S.A)

3. Place: Andong Dam (Ju-Jin Bridge service area)

4. When: June 9^th, 2013

Practice: June 8^th, 4:30am ~ 6:00pm

5. Schedule plan:

5:00am – Reception and opening ceremony

6:00am – Tournament start

2:00pm – Weigh-in starts

2:30pm – Weigh-in and tournament ends

3:00pm – Closing ceremony

6. Tournament fee: 100,000won (foreigners/co-anglers)

(Pro anglers score 100 points for participating)

7. Registration:

a) Foreigners/co-anglers are to submit their name, social security number, date of birth and ID card copy.

See below section 9 for more details.

b) Deadline for registration is Tuesday May 25^th. This is so that insurance can be organized.

8. Prizes (total amount for prizes will be announced ASAP)

1^st place: plaque and prizes (TBA)

2^nd place: plaque and prizes (TBA)

3^rd place: plaque and prizes (TBA)

4^th place: plaque and prizes (TBA)

5^th place: plaque and prizes (TBA)

9. Other information:

a) Non-KSA Pro foreign anglers are welcome to participate in this Open Tournament in their own boats.

b) All foreigners must register through KSA angler Steve Bell by May 25^th.

Please contact Steve Bell by email at, stevenbell69@hotmail.com for payment method details, etc.

c) This year, the entry fee MUST be paid upfront before May 25^th (for insurance payment reasons).

d) We are looking for 20 ~ 25 foreigner co-anglers to participate in this year’s event. The foreigners will each fish

with a Korean Pro angler on a draw method basis. Non-Pro foreigners and their co-anglers fishing from their

own boats are not included in the above.

e) Foreigners that have participated in the past International Tournaments will have priority in the registration.

f) After the registration closing date of May 25^th, KSA will join all foreigners/co-anglers as a bulk insurance group.

A copy of each foreigner’s ID card is required for insurance reasons. (The insurance fee is included in the entry

fee).

10. Accommodation reservations:

Andong hotel (formerly California hotel) 054-8540-6223

As I told Nomad a couple of months ago, I am going to start the EMB series from down South here. I started the first of the new series off with a bass on my first cast……or should I say DINK. Caught it on a neko rig a few feet from the bank.

Here’s the same DINK on a similar EMB rock, lol.

Posted on behave of Tex Mex;

Went to Andong with Tony Rodriguez, Troy Davis, and all the kids for two days of fun. We did pretty well considering the time we were able to fish as a result of the hurricane winds out there. I got there late on 25 April and fished for about an hour in the hurricane winds before it got dark and was able to catch two that went about 1 1/2 pounds. The next day we tried to take the Bass Tub out and again the winds were so strong that it was just to dangerous. We fished from the banks and caught about 15 bass with the best going 3 1/2 pounds. That’s the one I caught and am posing with that appeared to be in spawn mode. My son Joshua seen posing in most of the pictures had never really been bass fishing with lures only and did quite well, when he listened to me and slowed down his presentation. I tried spinner baits and jigs but had no luck. Most of the fish were caught on a wacky rigged Korean made robo worm with an inserted worm weight to make the rig get down quicker. The last day I fished with TK in his boat for several hours, again in the very frustrating winds and caught three good ones on a drop shot rig with the same robo worm as they just would not hit anything else. Again thanks to TK and Jerry for their generosity. We all had a great night of eating and drinking and just plain Ole Fishing Camaraderie. I was able to meet Hector the last day just as I was getting ready to go out with TK and he also seemed like a really nice guy. I heard he caught one that went over 4 pounds on a Texas Rigged Purple Brush Hog. Looking forward to the next trip to Andong. Up next is Deep Sea Fishing in Amyeongdo this Saturday for black rock bass. I’ll let you all know how we all did on the ocean when we get back.

I went fishing on the river 8 days ago, and here’s some photos from that trip, better late than never. I caught a total of 33 bass, with most over 14 inches and a few over 16 inches.

Here’s 2 shots of the biggest bass of the day, about 3 lbs

Here’s my engine stats at full speed on my HDS-12 display..

Found a couple of pics of Ron up on stage after winning the recent tournament at Idong. Again, nice going Ron!!!

When you check the weather and they say “occasional showers,” that doesn’t sound too bad right?  When I think of occasional showers, I think of intermittent rain.  On and off.  Well, Tom and I went out on Friday and it rained on us the first 6 1/2 hours we were out.  And not just occasionally, either.  I’m talking torrential downpours to where I had to run the bilge pump to get the water out of the boat.  Fortunately, we both had on our BP rain suits so we did stay dry for the most part, but the bad news is that it was also very cold, and the bass were not in a biting mood.  Tom caught one on a rattle trap, but it was raining too hard to even think about breaking out the camera at that time. 

After the rain stopped and it was almost time to go home, I finally caught a pic-worthy one on a Senko. I also caught some white bass on a Little Cleo spoon but again, it was raining and I wasn’t about to break out the camera.

Someone is giving me the evil eye.

The weather report for Saturday said mild with sunny skies and a high of 65 so we went out again.  It never got above 50 degrees and it was cloudy and windy all day and even started raining on us in the afternoon.  And to make matters worse, we only had ONE bite all day, which came on a jerkbait.  We talked to quite a few folks out on the water and everyone had the same story; the last few days, the fish just weren’t biting anywhere.  Water temps are still around 49 degrees, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

I had a week off work this week, so decided that I would spend a full day on the Nakdong river near Busan. I started out about 7:30am on Thursday morning and finished about 4:00pm. I was catching bass steadily all throughout the day. The bass were mostly in the 12 ~ 14 inch sizes with a couple getting closer to 16 inches.

Here’s some photos.

I also captured a few screen shots on my HDS-12 Touch, some shots of the underwater structure, but mostly of my engine readings whilst running at full speed up and down the river.

And finally, I captured a bunch of video footage with my GoPro Hero 3 movie camera and threw together a short video from parts of the whole day. For some reason, I couldn’t get it to post here, but you can see it on my personal blog if you are interested ….. http://blog.naver.com/stevenbell69