 what's going on guys welcome to another video if you could tell about my voice i'm sick all right i'm not feeling the best right now i'm not feeling good at all matter of fact it's been a rough day it's really hard for me to talk so just bear with me i'm probably gonna lose my voice by the time this video is ever about i don't care because i'm not skipping an upload and just because i'm sick doesn't mean i'm not gonna be posting videos so i actually even try to go fishing for you guys today and that's just it happened i'll try to go in the back yard for a little bit see if i can get some uh fish catches fish clips try that for you just get back uh from working out uh about 20 minutes ago 30 minutes ago and i decided to pick up the camera make this video this is a video i've been wanting to do for a minute but i have two quick things i want to do this right here uh mess up this journalist section from a from a fan across the street i guess i need to do this journal i don't know if i should give this back to you since i'm sick now because one of these says uh use this page as a napkin i might just blow my nose in it because i'm telling you i'm not feeling good second off right here giving someone a shout out right now i won't usually do this guys but guess what is happening right now be sure to go follow this kid right here on instagram c underscore c a g l e 66 c underscore seagull 66 all right this boy right here i actually met him a while back ago i've been talking to him really cool kid go get him up go get him a follow let's go ahead get this video starts skip all that stuff so the reason you guys clicked on this video is because you guys wanted to find out how i did on the tournament this is a tournament update talking about the tournament and i don't want to make this too long for you guys so let's make it short and sweet and uh information packed so moving on to everything as you guys know i'm a sophomore in college right now i finished my whole first year um of college and college fishing um this previous year the first tournament on this uh this season's schedule was on lake lenear and as you guys know that's my home lake there's not one other lake in this world that i'm more confident on than lake lenear you know this summer i went like 15 days straight almost and literally had over 13 pounds every single day like every single day and a few days i had 20 pounds insane let's wrecking the fish this summer and especially in the past and you know confidence through the roof on this lake like i know what this lake has potentially and you know there is no way like there was no way i just wasn't gonna at least get like a top three in this tournament like there was no way so that's the mindset i went about it in this tournament so i don't know if that's always the best thing for what i'm about to tell you so going into this tournament i actually went we had two days to practice before the event first day went out there um found the main pattern and um ended up not recording this they found the main pattern which were catching fish on brush piles um of course that didn't surprise me in all catch them on a fish i'd spin also i wanted to find a secondary pattern which was a largemouth bite which i never do on the near i wanted to get out of my comfort zone i wanted to try something different so that's what we went and did and we caught like five or six largemouth that day as well i'm finding a largemouth pattern i was catching them on like a little red crave bait as well as a big mop jig which uh my partner oakley was throwing had a great day you know kind of built a base but we knew the next day was going to be in the area that i'm comfortable with i have a lot of confidence in this area so we went through the second day of practice i'm put in there hitting all the standard brush piles it was kind of slow at first and then all of a sudden dude oh my god it's just snap and it was unreal we pulled up on these spots as you guys saw if you guys haven't seen the practice video go watch it i'll link it down below we're going to hit all these uh brush piles i pulled in one creek the creek previously was pretty solid um i think we caught you know like five fish by then six fish pull up into this creek going my first brush pile right at the mouth be my cast out there let it sink i was throwing a fish at spin as you guys know i love that bait he's a real not bad boy do wax it looks that into him and then he ends up coming off him like all right you know that's fine whatever i'll put the rods down uh throw the trill and motor up crank up crank up to the next spot pull up to the next brush pile till i look like my cast right here cast right there boom uh three pounder on a wobble head all right put the boat up went to the next spot first cast fish on spin boom two and a half pounder got him in the boat all right boom next spot first cast boom three pounder in the boat all right there you go next spot next cast do not pounder at that point i was like you know what there's no point on me checking these brush piles anymore in this creek it is insane we literally caught five fish five cast in like five to ten minutes it was ridiculous and uh linear that does not surprise me and you know i felt so good i was like you know we found this right here we got a secondary pattern just in case something happens we have a backup plan with the large mouth and um you know everything should go well and you know we're all set up went and i scanned some other spots fished a few more spots to find some other stuff went back to some of my original stuff i hit this summer i mean the same way just being a cast you know boom you know first cast every single time we're just like we're on you know there's no doubt in my mind we're gonna we're gonna put this thing in the bag we're gonna win this thing comes day one of the tournament oh man yeah first off start off with a three hour fog delay three hours i've never had that happen to me once i've had a fog delay before but nothing like three hours like that was just an insane weight totally killed that morning bite but most of the fish that we were catching were in the afternoon anyways and uh didn't really bother us too much i know we could get a big bite in the morning especially with the schools and um so that was kind of knocked out of the side but overall you know i was thinking you know where our spots are still going to be good comes this afternoon we didn't launch until i believe it was like 10 30 we had to take out at five 15 or is it six 15 it was five 15 it might have been six 15 matter of fact that's all the long tournament guys i there's no doubt in my mind i was like oakley we got to bust them out today like first day day one we got to come in for like 16 to 20 pounds i said we just got to bust them um don't worry about the spots you know catch as many as possible to try to upgrade our bag don't worry about being up her fish because the next day was supposed to be raining it was going to be really nasty and so they cut the day short all the way to 115 we had to be back so we're like thinking in our heads like we're just going to beat these fish the first day try to catch 16 to 20 pounds you know i thought it was definitely doable with what we found and um we'll be set the next day we can get some of the largemouth stuff we'll save that and that's what we'll do so anyways we go to the brush piles start fishing them nothing get some to the next ones casting nothing when i mean fishing fast guys i mean fishing fast oakley says the craziest day he's ever been on the water we hit around i mean i'd say 125 spots that day um and not even kidding you know there's there's a few fish that came off um and a few few mistakes during the day we did not have a fish at five o'clock we had to we had to weigh in at we had to be at weigh in at 615 we did not have a fish and it was five o'clock and by that time i was already up north heading towards the ramp just because you know i wanted to be over in that area there's no point in being late in this two-day event that whole deal um i don't have any spots up there really i don't fish up there and you know one spot's treating me well in the tournament i've decided to stop in there um i'm throwing a shaky head by this point i couldn't get a bite in practice on the shaky but i knew you know deep down in my head that you know if i can't get a fish on anything just throw a shaky head we'll throw it up on this tree and caught a two and three quarter pounder it was a decent fish that got me pumped up because i was like all right we got a fish in the boat even though it was almost the end of the day and sadly we ended up not catching any more only caught one fish you got you gotta listen this is my home lake this is a lake that i knew so much about that i could like close my eyes and just be thinking about you know let's go here tomorrow here here here and boom we catch like 15 pounds like it the stars were not aligned today there's there's one of those events i had one event last year that was the same way and it was actually on Lake Hartwell which is like the second most confident lake i'm on and uh the same exact thing happened i just don't know why all this stuff i don't know if it gets in my head or what it is but always in practice i'm smoking them it's not even like i'm beating up the fish you know i get a bite i leave or i don't even cast in there or i shake the fish off or i just catch one leave you know i never beat a fish it just happens like that it's just it's just fishing but this day was totally not meant for us we saw the fish schooling all around us you know throwing our baits right in there i threw my fish head into a school of four and five pounders i see hopping up and i was feeling hit it hit it twice it's never get it and i'm like you know now that point is just ridiculous i threw my fish head some more and kept short striking it i was thinking myself you know this is just not going but we only have one fish for like two and a half pounds on day one and this just shows you guys this is what fishing is and i'm showing the reality of this tournament and i'm telling you guys 100 true honest even though this was a horrible event just because everyone documents the good everyone documents like all the good stuff no one documents the bad they don't want to they don't want to show themselves looking bad on camera but guess what i'm gonna be a hundred percent real with you guys because we're all gonna have these days it's just what it is and uh the fact it was on my own lake and i busted but i mean i can tell you one thing though we worked our butts off and when i mean we worked our butts off i got off the water i don't know if you can still see it but my nose was so my face was literally i don't know if i can grab as red as it gets like i i about killed myself like i was to the point where we would i'd love get on plane lay it on a spot i would throw it back you know i got a hot foot by the time that boat's still coming down there's water that's going to come up on the front i already hit the stop button i'm already up on the front deck throwing the trolling motor in the water i mean hitting as fast as we can we hit over a hundred spots on first day only caught one fish with all that happening you know i was talking hopefully i'm like dude we can't get down you know you this is just how stuff happens you know you can't control everything all i know is we put in a hundred and ten percent i said tomorrow we're gonna put a hundred and fifty percent no bullshit you know we're getting this done and this is just what we're gonna have to do going into the next day a lot a lot more you know we're just gonna have to do this we're getting rained on as blast off occurs this is the reason you're not seeing any footage raining like crazy i actually ended up breaking my gopro on the way from launch to my first spot i actually got water in my lens it was embedded in the lens and then it ended up freezing and it's just all jacked up now i didn't get any footage i'm kind of mad it wasn't like we did good but i still wanted to document it and show you guys some things but i do have one thing which was the early morning blast off clip which i'm sure i'll show at the end of the video if it's not uh if this video is too long everybody won't show it but i showed you know i'm sure like 15 seconds of it of a blast off so going out there um we just decided you know we're fishing all day you know got a fish in the boat i caught it on a shaky head um about 30 minutes later we're now at one of my deeper brush piles that i didn't get to hit the day before it was just kind of like let's stop here so a lot of fish on the graph backed off threw in there hopefully caught one on a jig three pounder um everything was starting to go good and everything i just shut everything off in my head i said screw this stuff you know we're not hitting any of this stuff less i'm going to literally replay what i did this summer and i'm just going to go back to the basics i sat down in the boat because i burnt my drop shot off previously i tied him one on tied my leader tied everything got up on the boat and started hitting the main piles i usually hit and just started catching them and the fish are catching we're tiny guys 13 13 and a half inches and they had to be 14 inch keepers i'm catching a largemouth which is insane out there i'm catching them they're all small we just keep running running running and all of a sudden you know i see all these fish are under me i'm dropping on a drop shot and uh oakley comes up next to me and drops his jig and we're just talking to ourselves like if they hit that jig but not this drop shot just makes no sense and literally by the time his jig hit the bottom boom he hooked one right there caught him and uh i can't even remember what the last fish was we got one more fish in the boat so we have four fish for i believe seven pounds horrible um then again but the weights were so bad like it wasn't like it was a really good event uh by any means i mean the lake this is what happened cold front blew in not only the cold front blew blow uh blow in but the lake was turning over so it was just catastrophe cold front is already bad when the lake is turning over it's the worst literally like time of the year to fish lake linear or any lake especially the linear um it's the worst time to fish it and uh that's just what it is guys we worked our butts off this all i know we put a hundred and fifty percent effort into this event and all i know is i know so much about that lake it's ridiculous to think that this is probably be my worst finish you know this year i'm hoping this is my worst finish this year and uh gosh it just blew my mind but the same thing happened last year my worst finish last year was at Hartwell and that was when i was gonna qualify anywhere it's gonna be at Hartwell but that just shows you you know just because you know the water just because you know this much doesn't mean it's always the best thing and uh everything you know everything in life has always preach is try your best you know Oakley that was his first college event and i had a long talk with him on the ride what on the ride back here to savannah and i was talking to him i said dude i said you might be down about this tournament but you can't you can't be down like you and i both know what we did i said no one else will know what we did these two days except for you and me i said we you know what we did i said i know what we did and what we did was put in 150 percent effort i mean worked our butts off tried everything we could did everything that we could and the stars were just not aligned for us you know it just wasn't turning out and you're all gonna have tournaments like that guys if you guys have a bad tournament don't go get down if you if something bad happens i mean it doesn't matter if you know something stupid happens in a baseball game you know it's just what it is it's what it is especially in fishing because i would be really pissed at myself if i was playing baseball and i sat there and struck out every single time because i know that is clearly me holding the bat on me sometimes fishing is a little bit differently you can't always make those fish bite and sometimes you just know the day is put up against you you know that you're just the number one person out there that is just going to get screwed over and that's just what it's going to be but all i know is we put in so much effort there's two practice days literally put in as much time as we could from daylight all the way to when we were allowed to take out or when we had to take out every single minute that we could fish those two days we did done a ton of information and worked our butts off those two days of the tournament and that just shows guys even though you put all this effort in you're not always going to get something out you won't always get something out of it but all i can tell you guys is just please every single day try to be the best that you can be just keep pushing even if something bad happens just keep pushing because there's no point of quitting you know if you if something bad like this happens you don't quit you keep on going because guess what that day that you're working for is gonna come it's just it might take 15 lots of before you get that one win but that's what life is that's the only way that's the only way to grind it's the only way to hustle all the way to the top is to keep on putting the work and you know you you just don't get things for not working it's just not how it works you gotta put in the work and if you put in the work enough it's gonna come i promise you but guys i apologize so much about not getting the tournament footage uh i feel really bad about it but the gopher broke there's nothing i could do wasn't the best set you know for us um it was a depressing tournament but guess what i wasn't even sad about it at the end because in reality i know what we did we worked our we worked our butts off we did what we could and we did everything that we possibly could and that's just the end of the story and um overall guys thank you guys so much for the support really means a lot sorry for about my voice like i'm i'm seriously i'm i promise you this isn't my voice right now like i'm really trying to actually make myself clear but uh overall i love you guys so much thank you guys so much for the support be sure to smash that like button comment below and subscribe if you haven't already stay tuned for sunday's video and i'll catch you guys and then next