I made the first one out of a few parts I found around the home. It wasn’t the best looking thing I have made, but when I tested it in the water it acted and looked quite good. The baits in the first 2 photos are 76mm SureCatch Hyper Minnows on 1/4oz homemade football jigheads. The main head of the rig is 2 part epoxy putty.

Here’s a few photos.

I made a short video of the test, but I can’t figure out how to put it on the blog here 

Then, I found some better wire, ordered some parts from SureCatch and made a better version. Below is a photo by photo list of the build.

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.

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

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.

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!!

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.

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

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.

I caught most of the morning’s bass on a SureCatch Sensa-worm Neko rig in about 5 foot of water. Then a switched to a jig-head with a trick-worm and caught a few more including a couple of better sized bass. The bass in this lake/river are generally small, with a 12 incher being pretty good, so these bass around 14 inches were very welcome in my boat. They were good fighters also, put a good bend in my rod.

With a good pattern worked out I called it a day and headed back to the pension where my wife and daughter were impatiently waiting, lol.

Sunday morning, the weather was just the same as the Saturday, so I knew and hoped the bass would still be in the pattern, and I was right. After catching a couple of undersized dinks on a topwater I caught my first keeper (albeit still a dink). Here’s some of the dinks caught on different baits.

Then I moved to my main spot about 10:00am and caught my 3 biggest bass of the tournament within about 5 or 6 casts with an-all chartreuse SureCatch Sniperspin spinnerbait and a pearl Sensortail trailer worm. That was it for a while, then just before weigh-in time (1:30pm) I caught a couple more tiny bass.

With the sun and hot weather we had on Sunday, I was pumping in fresh water every few minutes to keep the bass fight fit. I weighed in my limit for 1,630g which turned out to good enough for 8th place and 100,000won 

First bass of the day on a 1/4 SureCatch buzzbait.

A few bass caught on SureCatch Phantom’s (similar to a Zara Spook).

Here’s the 2 bass that were not caught with topwater lures.

All the rest of the bass were caught on a white SureCatch Power Shad buzzed across the surface and over grass.

And last but certainly not least, a fat 50cm bass at 4 pounds even.