Ivey
Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
Great PT, there! Tylenol, ice and rest and you’ll be back at full strength soon enough.
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Good job Mike. Go easy on the shoulder, but a limited amount of casting should serve as good therapy. Nice fish for sure. What's the white PVC pipe on the bow?
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Very glad to know you’re healing well Ivey. Nice catches too. 👍🙏
good to see your out fishing again.
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Got to love those Thumps. One day at a time Ivey.
Billycrap2
Loc: Mason county,W(BY GOD) Virginia, 🇺🇸🦅
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Well you definitely getting better and you haven’t lost your touch, just take it easy your strength is getting better Thank for those beautiful pictures 👍🏽👍🏽🎣🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐠🐠🐋🐋🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
Glad to hear you got out and got some good therapy. Couple days of rest and you’ll need some more therapy. Thanks for the pics
Nice ones Ivey 👌 Take it easy on the fish therapy 😀
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Nice smallies Ivey! Makes you forget the shingles and shoulder pain for a while.
Rhyno
Loc: Santa Rosa,California
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Nice looking fish sir!! I’ll take that kind of PT any day 🎣
Gordon
Loc: Charleston South Carolina
Good to see your back out on the water Mike. Nice report on your return to recovery.
Ivey
Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake
Thanks everyone for the well wishes, It really did feel good to get out for a few hours. It's healing in more way than one.
Good to get b j in the saddle
Ivey wrote:
Well guys we had a cloudy cool morning today so I got out and tested out my new shoulder,,, Not quite ready for prime time but I held out 3 hours. First fish was a dink maybe 14" but on my newly tied 7'3" medium heavy with a extra fast tip, it was a good fight. Second 18 1/4" fish was out deep off a deep ledge 17' falling off to 32', I had just told Suzanne "there should be a fish right here" barely got it out of my mouth thump. very hard fighter with a couple aerial displays it came to my thumb, nice fish. Third was a 20" beauty that was off a point in about 18' of water. I saw some kinda structure on the depth finder, back off about 30 ft, set the spot lock and made several casts to the structure. Pulled the bait across what felt like a limb and thump, almost took the rod out of my hand. Fought it out of the limb and up it came in dynamic vertical exit from the water. That fish probably cleared the water a good 4 ft. Played it down on that soft tipped rod and landed it from the drivers seat. I did have another heavy fish pull off but those guys don't count. Felt a slight twinge on the last hook set so I decided it was time to come to the house, pretty good three hours. I'll take it easy for a day or two and try again
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Pretty color on those bronze backs Ivey ! Hope your steadily healing brother,, Thanks for the pics🤙🤙👍
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