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LAKE GASTON 1987

I WAS IUCKY ENOUGH TO MAKE IT TO THE FEDERATION FINALS HELD ON LAKE GASTON IN 1987.THIS WAS TO BE THE FIRST TIME I EVER SEEN THE LAKE LET ALONE FISH IT. BOY WAS I SCARED!!
  WHEN I GOT TO THE LAKE THE DAY BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT THERE WERE A LOT OF BOATS OUT PRE FISHING.(OH!I FOR GOT TO MENTION I WAS A NON BOATER).I HUNG AROUND THE RAMP AWHILE HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK ME TO GO WITH THEM.NO ONE DID,NONE OF THE OTHER GUYS FROM MY CLUB WERE THERE. AT THE MEETING TO DRAW PARTNERS THAT NIGHT IT WAS HOT AND I HAD NO PLACE TO SIT DOWN.I THOUGHT BOY IS THIS GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT. BUT LOW AND BEHOLD MY NAME WAS THE THIRD ONE THEY CALLED. I CAN`T RECALL HIS NAME BUT MY PARTNER SEEMED LIKE A NICE ENOUGH GUY.AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT HE WAS IN THE ROOM NEXT TO MINE AT THE MOTEL.WE LOOKED AT THE MAP AND MADE A FEW PLANS FOR THE NEXT DAY AND THAT WAS IT FO THE NIGHT. The next morning (early) he was banging on my door and we went for breakfast.At the boat ramp things a little hectic and rushed.
There were 133 boats which is 266 fishermen.When i was getting in the boat my partner asked if I had got in the big fish pot, I said where do you get in.HE pointed to a picnic table on shore,I went over and handed the guy a $10.00 bill and he asked if I wanted both days and I said no. We fished all day and I caught 2 little fish.
  After the weigh in I found out my partner for the next day was the room mate of the guy I had just fished with. The next morning I drove to the ramp and parked my car and after awhile found my partner.
   We were #130 to blast off.Well things were real slow and late in the day my partner said if you have any secret baits now is the time. I looked in my tackle box and found this big yellow spinner bait B.A.S.S. sent me when I joined and have never used.I tied it on and the second cast next to this big boulder I had a strike and the fight was on.While the fight was going on I realized i was using this cheap little rod I had bought from K-mart FOR $29.00. I was lucky the fish headed for the middle of the lake and deep water.After what seemed an eternity the fish came up.My partner netted him for me and I just dropped to the seat when i saw how big it was. My partner said that fish is worth over a $1000.00. YELP!! I forgot to get in the big fish pot that morning!#!!#@!&^* well it was hard to keep fishing, but i did manage to catch 3 more keepers on that spinner bait.
   At the weigh in after the ribbin, I recieved a trophy and A check for a hundred dollars and a kick in the butt for the big fish of the tournament. The fish weighed in at 9lbs 2oz. I have never missed getting in on the Big Fish Pot Since!!!! "I even won a few".

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The years of fishing with my brother a lot of wierd and unbelivable things have happened and I wish I could tell you all of them.
Once while fishing with my cousin (who has no legs)they were caught in a thunder storm and trying to make it to shore in this little 14 foot boat with a 9 horse johnson motor. Lighting struck so close to the boat that the motor cut off. They were pretty close to shore so my brother jumped out and pulled the boat to shore. He then grabed my cousin and took him to shore and threw him under a tree and in some brush and went running back to get the boat that was sinking.He heard my cousin yelling and ran back,he had thrown him right in a nest of snakes. My brother grabed him by the arm and pulled him out. For what ever reason he had not been bitten. When my brother got to the boat about all he could see was the gas tank floating. He followed the hose down to the motor and took the motor off and took it to shore. While my cousin worked on the motor my brother managed to drag that little boat up on the shore.
The storm had passed and they got that motor running and bailed out the boat and went back to fishing. (HONEST) My brother is gone now but I bet he is fishing Up there,"God Bless Him".

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