Co-Angler Tips - Karyn Sanchez FLW Outdoors Angler

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Co-Angler Tips

Attitude is Everything

This season has been a struggle for me. I had high hopes for this year after my 9th place finish at the championship last season. However, it is fishing...and anything can happen, especially when you are a co-angler.

Don’t Go Broke Fishing

Most of us have been there, and few want to be there again. A review of the monthly bills shows that the electric bill must wait another 2 weeks in order to buy school supplies or pay the late mortgage. Looking over the options, debt consolidation or mortgage refinancing may appear to help. With enough equity, you can reduce your monthly outlay to creditors and still have money left over for groceries and emergencies.

Take Your Own Advice

It seems every time my dear husband goes to practice fish for a tournament, he asks “What would you do?” or starts sputtering comments about the wind speed, lake conditions and weather, expecting me to respond with some help. I usually laugh and think through all the memorized articles and tournaments in my head to return advice that helps him catch some keeper fish and build a pattern. For some reason when I get on the lake to fish on my own, all that knowledge turns to mush. When it does surface, it gets suppressed by that stubbornness to stay with what is “supposed” to be working. That issue surfaced this week on the body of water that every FLW angler dreads…Beaver Lake. This particular lake is truly unforgiving to even long time veteran anglers. You hear all the talk during practice…”I’m on em this year”, “It won’t be as bad as last year”, “I think I can make a top 10”….etc. Most of the anglers know that when practice goes that well on Beaver, don’t count on the fish. The elusive bass on this lake are notorious for being there one day and gone the next. The few that remain are below the 12 inch limit and swallow your baits wasting more time to remove the hooks than it takes to each a complete 4 course dinner. So here I was, finding myself in that predicament. I had a great practice with a wonderful angler from the west who was “on em”. The tournament started and the fish were not where they were the days prior. Well, the fish were there, but they were all small. The night prior we had a terrible thunderstorm blow through complete with tornadoes. About half way through the day, when I realized the larger fish were not up shallow I began thinking….”they pulled out because of the weather…” Why I did not start throwing to deeper water, I do not know. My boater was flipping and pitching and caught a keeper here and there, but nothing like there should be. I knew where they were, but I afraid to change my tactics for fear of missing fish. I managed to catch 2 fish that day and I went home shaking my head. The second day we started out fishing deeper water. Nice, I thought, this is where we should have fished all along. We fished several points throughout the morning and no keeper bites. We finally decide to start flipping shallower water on the points hoping for a few larger fish. I am not sure at what point I errantly through out the deeper side of the boat…but BAM! A nice keeper spotted bass! I didn’t think much of it, except that I started watching the graph a little more for structure. Something I used to do quite a bit and got out of the habit. About an hour before weigh in, I again tossed my bait to the deeper side. BAM! Another keeper! At this point I decided not to waste the final hour. I began throwing deeper. It is such a difficult mental process. You watch your partner boating fish, albeit short ones, by pitching shallow. You have to make yourself believe there are more fish on the outer side of the boat. Fish that have not seen a bait. Reflecting on the tournament I realized that all along, I knew that better fish were further out. Had my husband called me listing the conditions, I would have told him to pull out and fish a little deeper. Lesson learned: Fish the conditions and take your own advice

My 2 Cents

You’ve heard stories about cotillion ladies training their young women on the finer points of etiquette. This article is meant to help you with the finer points of boat etiquette. Fishing with many of the professionals on the tournament trail allows me to hear about co-angler horror stories. Believe me…for every horror story you have about a pro, a pro has twice that about bad co-anglers. Spending a day on a boat with a stranger forces you to put up with someone through bad weather, bathroom emergencies, hunger and many other physical stresses. Sometimes you are lucky enough to draw someone who you can befriend and who can help you through it. Other times you draw someone who will grate on every last nerve you have. Either way, you better come prepared to put your head down and catch fish, or you have wasted to very reason you started out that day.

**NEW** iPhone 3.0 Installation Crashes iphone

This blog isn't about fishing. My second career is a bit more technical. That's why it really upsets me when there are issues with something and the company doesn't appear to address them. There are countless issues on the internet about updating iphone firmware and the iphone crashing. This issue is a hit to productivity as the user is then without a phone until tech support can get around to helping. I am therefore posting my fix for recovering your iphone if and when it crashes during an update. This works for all updates, it just so happens I learned all of this as part of the most recent 3.0 firmware installation. I am attempted to update my iphone from 2 different PCs (Windows XP), using different cables and obviously different USB ports. All of these are the solutions issued by Apple. They also ask that you remove and reinstall iTunes which I did, and also covered by switching to a second PC. All resulted in the dreaded error 1602 and my iphone getting stuck in connectivity mode. Itunes then wants to restore but update to the firmware...which is what caused the crash to begin with. So here it is....this will allow you to revert backwards to your older firmware (which worked). Send me a note and let me know if this helps! Close iTunes and unplug iphone Search web and download the 2.2.1 ipsw file. Go to device manager on PC and delete the USB option for Apple under the hardware options. Reboot PC Plug in iphone and wait for dreaded connection picture hold power button and home button until apple logo appears continue to hold home button and release power button until connection picture appears again Your PC should now find the iphone in recovery mode Now open iTunes and it will prompt you to restore Hold the shift button on the keyboard and click the restore button at the same time This will allow you to browse for the correct ipsw file select the 2.2.1 file that you downloaded your iphone will now restore Once completed, you will need to resync Now you are back to square one but at least have a phone that works Now make an appt at the Genius Bar and make them update it for you Mine is scheduled for next week