 just got off the water guys was helping this guy tone them in first of all thanks for your service what's going on guys welcome to another video today i'm making a video over the recap of like similar tournament because a lot of people have been asking me i was going to upload the practice video today um because it's pretty we got some pretty decent footage on there for the most part i didn't film as much as i was wanting to just because i was hunting and i was so dialed in you you know so today i was like i'm gonna open i'm gonna make the recap video because i am making this right before you guys watch this so like when you guys are watching this one i put it out i pretty much made this an hour before so today is sunday and you guys are watching this on sunday so i'm going to be talking about what base we're throwing what happened during the tournament and the whole lay down so yesterday was the tournament and let me just kind of kind of start off with this so as you guys know tournament usually starts at safe light you know in the morning i'd say around seven fifteen well we woke up like a four four forty five got all our stuff put it in the boat hold deal get to the ramp we loaded up on gas hold deal um got to the ramp and the fog was horrible so we're gonna have like a major fog delay we didn't know it was gonna be as long as it was but we ended up not launching i'd say until like us my boat until about 1045 um so yeah about gosh about a four hour delay um is about a three hour delay i'd say but what their boat number is about four hours for us so we were about 150 so we already had not the best boat number um there's two other tournaments going out there was a real money tournament which had i believe 65 boats um that was going out which is a lot of locals and they were putting in by the dam or they're putting in spring creek if you guys know anything about seminal at uh big gyms so that's where they were putting in so they're already over there kind of near the dam and spring creek area pretty much where i was fishing and the florida side and so i already knew there's gonna be like a lot of boats especially if i there's 150 boats in front of me um so pretty much for that whole deal going on it was already not turning out to be the best because we're starting at 11 o'clock well we were doing at originally 415 but they extended an hour so i was doing at 515 so go out there during the tournament as you guys know in practice if you guys watch my instagram and everything we were just smacking them guys and first day of practice went pretty good um we smacked them i have a really cool picture i want to show you because we did a little 2v2 tournament out there but we weren't really catching we were just finding a new spot one and done and leave um but the second day we found some big ones on my caught i kind of six pounder um partner caught a four pounder caught multiple threes um it was a good day um we had about 18 pounds uh the day before the tournament but we weren't really like fishing so after we call it five or six fish which honestly i wish we didn't even catch that many we cut off the hooks and uh you know continued to hunt for some more spots so that being said practice was amazing every time i come to seminal practice is amazing i've gone to seminal three times this is my third time um first time sucked it up horrible tournament but in practice we whacked him second tournament which was last year my first college tournament ever practice was insane multiple 20 pound days maybe practice months in advance and uh did pretty well as um did pretty good as well and tournament did horrible only had three small fish um one of my worst events ever i have came from seminal then this year we sucked it up again but in practice we whacked him i don't get every single time i can practice we smoke them here on seminal it's it's literally i i've loved the lake but i hate it at the same time because i feel as if it's like a curse on me i was i swear the third time was going to be the charm but we just we we got out there and it was one of those times where it was like it's not our day um for the reasons being that i'm going to explain now so we got out there for the tournament it was already late big fog delay there was a lot of boats on our spots um and just a lot of crazy stuff happening i had some shortcuts that i was taking and there was just a lot of boats out there it was hard because i was taking some shortcuts and it was already a little bit foggy it's hard for me to see when i was taking my shortcuts there was boats out there so i was like risking going around the boats because of course i didn't want to blow them out by any means but i still had to stay semi close to them which sucked as well because i didn't want to drive anywhere near anyone but taking their shortcuts or stumps everywhere you got to be careful so i had to slightly get out of their way um as best as possible and um pretty much got down to her first spot fishing and everything and alan my fishing partner he caught one that was like 11 and a half 12 12 inches was um small as you could bring in it's a 12 inch limit and after that we hit her second spot the first spot was a juice hole like every time i came to seminal in practice i whacked him there um we pulled up there the first day of practice i'm gonna have more videos on the days of practice but first cast boom caught a five pounder like and it was our first spot we hit so that spot has always been super productive we're hoping we could go catch a big bag there but there was a lot of boats around there and i'm sure a lot of other people already fish it and i mean there's just hundreds and hundreds of boats there's 200 in the college tournament alone so there's just a lot of people beating up these fish the week before you know there are some huge bags being weighed in like 35 pounds and how i see it is this lake can only hold up so many 20 30 pound bags until it just goes you know dead so we hit her second spot i hooked hooked into a good fish started pulling my drag it felt big um alan had the net gets up it's a big pickerel and i'm like all right so keep fishing and we're going along catch another pickle okay make up the boat it's another spot previously in practice we shook off a lot of fish which means say i had a worm we either shook it off or i rolled it out of their mouth so i don't hook the fish obviously and i can possibly come back and catch them during the tournament went to that spot hooked fish got him in about 11 and a half inches kept fishing picked another one by 11 and a half inches i've never caught a fish under 12 inches on seminal and then continue to catch some more pickle that's pretty much how our tournament went all along horrible couldn't even get a keeper like literally and that's just fishing for you guys like that's that's here to state like even if you're on them like the day before the tournament at 18 pounds um and i wasn't even like fishing my good stuff i was just fishing random stuff that i would see and be like that looks good let's go fish that and testing out things that can just show like how it can change on the dime for you but with us catching all this pickle i'm knowing that we really didn't in practice i believe i caught one in practice and i didn't catch one fish under 12 inches in practice i just knew that it wasn't going as well as planning it wasn't going for what we planted at all um for the most part just wasn't wasn't our day and i'm really not mad about it i mean seminal's kicked my butt this is the third time it's kicked my butt um but practice has just been always phenomenal i'm gonna go there and film some videos because there's so many big fish and i can whack them out there not in a tournament but um we're gonna go back there another time anyways started driving down the river to go back to the ramp we had to be due in at 515 i believe it was 445 at the time i saw someone broke down or i didn't know if he's broke down but he's sitting in the middle of the river channel and i pulled up next to him and i made sure he was okay i put you know thumbs up thumbs down he put thumbs down so i was obviously gonna go help him um and so i asked him i was like what do you want me to do one of our buddies from a college back by my house pulled up took his partner got his fish and i told him i was like yeah i can take you back so we towed him back the guys from alburn i'm really nice guy he actually um he's in the military and everything um thanking him for for his service and everything but we towed him back i believe it was it was about two hours it was about 11 and 12 miles but we could only idle about four miles an hour and i towed him up river back to the ramp and by that time literally everybody was gone from the way in there was like nobody there um literally the trailer was gone the whole deal was dark outside but i would like to say with that whole deal with towing that guy that you know if i was on the water and i was broken down i would really respect if you know someone came and helped me i think that's very important i think you know that's how this fishing community should be you know if someone needs help or something's wrong or anyone needs anything i think someone should be there for him and um i think that's a really good you know opportunity if you have it to help somebody out and i think that's the right thing to do just got off the water guys was helping this guy um towing them in first of all thanks for your service oh thank you yeah man this is first year he goes to alburn pull up his motor tell tell him a story yeah uh i made a long run today we ran 35 minutes one way just i mean wide open except on the way back i knew we needed to leave it lower early just to make sure we make it back in time and we made it about six miles away and she just came apart and these guys are lifesavers we end up qualifying for the national championship um it's my first one we end up 18th out of 188 and uh we could have done it without these guys i mean it was huge i was like to congratulate them i think this is a cool you know opportunity to say if anyone's out there and you want to help them seriously because like i told him i was like if i was ever in a situation where i was broke down or something i'd wish someone would help me out but absolutely man guys i appreciate it very glad you had a good one yeah thank you i just want to say that but i'm gonna go ahead and talk real quick about the baits i was catching them on and i'm gonna have my practice video i'm talking about all the baits i'm gonna have that um where i'm catching all the fish more in depth but first bait it's just a simple um one fourth ounce texas rig truck our hook e w g speed alarm this is what we're whacking them on one knocker right here by buya if you don't know uh who x caliber is x caliber used to make these and then they sold it to buya these are as you can tell it's a one knocker it's not like a regular standard rattle trap we were whacking them on that practice and then i got a little drop shot that actually tiling so i was getting very desperate in the tournament and i wanted to try to put some fish in the boat but overall guys thank you guys so much for watching this is just a little update video and recap video on the tournament telling you guys you know what happened and it just shows you guys you can't win every tournament you're not going to win every single one and this is the beginning of the season this is the first tournament of the year and it sucks to start off this way but then again you know we have plenty more tournaments that we're going to work towards 150 and bust our butts for anyways guys hope you guys are grinding every single day working hard and starting to be the best that you can be thank you guys so much for the support be sure to like comment and subscribe i'll catch you guys in 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