Fayette 7/25

[corey]

First of all let me say. Buck I think your last bad trip to Fayette was a sign telling me not to go, as you'll read later in my story...Well I Took two of my friends (Jeff and Chris) out on fayette last friday, got on the water about 6:45p.m. till about 9:15...My main goal for the trip was strict topwater bite, nothing else...Neither of my friends had caught a fish out of Fayette so I just wanted to get em hooked..anyways we stalled back in a cut for a while to let the wind calm down before we set out for the bite, enough was enough we headed over to Johnnys cove to throw along the reeds...heard some splashing behind us....Found schoolies! So we chased schoolies till about 8:30 with a 3/4 dead trolling motor!...got right on top of em one time, one bass almost jumped in the boat and another swam right into my trolling motor! Jeff and Chris had on smiles from ear to ear...Jeff ripped em on zoom horny toads and Chris did em up on a buzzbait, as for me i couldn't get a hit on a fluke if my life depended on it, I had 5 misses on a double bladed buzz but did manage to hook up with one on a Rapala Skitter walk...Finally they slowed down and we headed near the reeds...they wouldn't touch Jeffs frog or Chris's buzzbait but they did happen to LOVE my skitter walk...NOW here's where Buck's little Jynx hit me...I decide to swing a bass in the boat as usual and SNAP! there goes a rod....pick up a different one, hook up right away with a solid 4, try to lip it and i got a hook stuck in my thumb past the barb...not to mention its night time now so it was hard to do my operation...tried to push it through so i could just cut the barb then slide it out...just let me say it wouldn't bust through, I had to nut up and get the pliers, jerked it right out...lets just say everybody on that entire lake and in fayetteville heard me scream...so i tried to redeem myself with one more fish...and what do you know, the biggest fish I had ever seen from Fayette decided to destroy my lure! So I set the S**T out of the hook and my line busts!! I didn't have another skitter walk....enough was enough. So I left the lake with a broken rod, a bleeding thumb, a missing skitter walk and monster bass laughing at me. Funny thing is I thought about Buck the whole time all of this was going on, mine wasn't as bad as his but I defenately felt his pain...the day ended with Jeff 3, Chris 4 and I had 5...now that i wrote my novel, everybody should have something to read for a week since we can't get any fishing reports on the forum anymore, see yall guys on the water.

[txbucky]

Corey,
Nice Report. At least you didn't have to spend 50.00 at the emergency room. Maybe it's a secret "Johnny's Cove" curse or something..............anyway glad ya'll caught some fish, and I may have to go get me a "skitterwalk". ;D

[Nitro Shane]

Thanks for the report Corey...you guys will do anything to try to be the "Chump of the Month."

I've had hook embedded three different times. Passed the barb through the skin once with pliers. I'll never do that again.

I used this method twice with a treble hook: take a piece of heavy mono or braid and loop it around the bend of the hook, push the eye of the hook against the skin, using a quick tug of the line at the same angle it went in pull the hook out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_zAuQ2bm9U When I did this it was much easier than in the video. The hook basically popped right out and it was painless. The key is to push the eye of the hook down toward the skin. This keeps the barb from grabbing tissue on the way out.

The first time I tried this...I hung a crankbait in a bush on the bank and yanked it free. Like it was in slow motion the bait came flying straight at me. At the last minute, I turned my back and the bait got embedded in my A$$ . I did have a small hole in my shorts from yanking the hook out of the cloth, but it came out of my right butt cheek really easy

[txbucky]

"came out of my butt cheek real easy" ;D ;D Now that's funny! I tried every way possible to get the hook out of Hesston......the more I tried, the LOUDER he got, so I just gave up. The angle it went in and because it was deep I decided to take him in........knew two guys who had a guided trip once and one of them got hooked pretty bad, but they had paid so much that he left it in his leg until the trip was over...........................I've yet to have one go past the barb on me yet....maybe I need to stay out of Johnny's cove.

[corey]

Ya know Shane i was thinking about using this method but wasn't sure how to do it correctly...saw bill dance do it a time or two and thats it, thanks for the you tube lessons....Buck the emergency room ran through my head a thousand times believe me, if u don't mind a sugestion I would go with the brown frog color skitter walk by rapala, its got a yellow belly too and i think that helps...especially on fayette....next time your at the cursed cove around dark listen to all the frogs croaking in the reeds, unbelievable..no wonder they can't resist frogs

[txbucky]

Yep, I've heard all those frogs, and it's so loud at times you can't hear your buzzbait going across the water!