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I don’t know what it is, but I can be standing 3 feet from my dad, using the same bait and tackle and not catch a single fish. Well, that isn’t entirely true but you get the point.


We started the day out at 11:30 or so, we headed down to the boat ramp to pick up minnows with a net. People always seem amazed when we they see how many minnows we get each time we bring in the net. My dad and I are amazed by people who pay for minnows. It took us maybe 15 minutes to get a few dozen minnows and we came back down to the river after eating a sandwich to start the day.


The time went by pretty fast, even though the fish were biting sporadically. My dad missed a nice catfish right off the bat and we both caught some little Small Mouth Bass; the current of the river was so fast that we had to adjust our technique 30 minutes in. We decided that it was going to be better to stick a bobber on and float minnows 3-10 ft away from shore. This was what got us to start catching fish.


My dad was the one who caught all the keepers today, he caught two nice catfish during our first fishing session. I caught my first Northern Pike today, even though it was only 8-10″ long; it was the first one caught down by the boat ramp too that I’m aware of anyway. Otherwise, I caught only a couple little bass and was skunked the rest of the time.


At 3:30 we both were pretty hot so we decided to take a little swim and dinner break. I jumped in his not-hot tub and pretty much stayed in there for at least an hour and a half. Meanwhile he cooks some BBQ pork ribs on the grill and after dinner we headed back down to the river.


I’m not lying the first cast he threw in the river he caught one of the largest Small Mouth Bass that he’s ever caught. It was pretty nice and he said it was over 16″ although I don’t know about that. Not an hour later he caught another nice Small Mouth, probably 14.5″ this time; meanwhile I haven’t had so much of a bite.


At 8 pm or so we decided to call it quits for the day; it wasn’t that unproductive if you count his fish. However, it feels like I haven’t done shit.

I am thinking about what my plans are for August. I’m up like 1 buy in this month but I’ve been BE so far at 400 NL, but its such a small sample size I can’t compare it. I’ve also had 3 negative days in a row and a lot of it is just standard shit. I think that if I make 4-5 buy ins next week in the 5 part time days I can put in playing 400 NL then I’ll continue to stick to it in August (that’s going to be hard though). Otherwise I’ll have to go back and play 100/200 NL and just get some easy money to pay bills for another month, as taxes are due again in September. I’m lucky I didn’t lose any money this month, but then again I barely got any hands in. If I get 500 hands in each day next week at 400 NL (which will be real hard), then that would bring me over the 5k hand mark at 400 NL. Its just been so hard this month because of all the trips I’ve been taking.


I still may do that anyway, and then just table select the 400 NL games while I play tournaments next month, as I’m going to be staked for a lot of majors/FTOPs events. I’m thinking the total will be close to $5k next month alone in tournaments and majors and what not, and if I’m playing those a lot of the time I’ll just be 1 tabling. That would be a good way to get in some good quality table hours at 400 NL too. I’m up in the air if I want to 9 table 200 or 100 NL, given that the only reason I’m doing it is to make money and not exactly get better. I say that because my hourly winrate at 100 NL is probably double my hourly at 200 NL, but I really don’t know for sure too much. I should probably stay at 200 NL though as so I don’t stray to far away from my 400 NL progress, and then after I pay taxes and bills I’ll start going back to 400 NL again full time in October.


Again, more thoughts and reflections…

I got up an hour later today, which is weird because I went to bed at least an hour earlier last night. It rained again last night, which after a while it just doesn’t make much sense. I don’t know/remember when the last time it rained in Champaign; there is hardly a cloud in the sky!


My grandma calls my dad every Saturday, so when the phone rings at exactly 8:45 am you know who it is going to be. It’s kind of odd that she only calls on Saturday, but it also sucks because there is no way you could ever sleep past 8:45 either given how loud the damn phone is. Who wants to start off the weekend by talking with there mother? I digress…


I guess we’ll be going fishing today, although it doesn’t really matter too much to me, I don’t really care. I’m up here to enjoy myself and that includes drinking a shit ton more Busch Light, given that I probably wont drink any tomorrow before I drive back.


I’ve been thinking more about stocks lately, which is a good thing as I haven’t been thinking about them enough. I haven’t watched Mad Money or Suze Orman for weeks, but I still have like 100 of their shows on my DVR. After a while it just piles up and you want to tune it out. Also on my DVR is a new episode of Burn Notice from Thursday night, I meant to watch it but I forgot about it; good thing I have my DVR as a backup.


Alright, well, that’s what I’ve been thinking about in the 30 minutes I’ve been awake or so. If we do go fishing I sure hope I catch something this time; I’ve had a real bad year so far.