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To: robert b furman who wrote (4888)	11/14/2007 4:54:58 AM
From: Jeff Jordan	Respond to of 5125

Thanks Bob, I wish I could say I had a good tournament at nationals. I was catching 3-4lbers the first day of practice then the cold front hit. I only had one spot I had confidence in and it never paid off even though I was persistent in my efforts? There were two spots that I should have found that the leaders were on. I saw the winner fly by me the first day of practice, seeing he was a local boy I wondered why he was in such a hurry so I checked it out up to the point where he had locked through to another lake, my mistake was I didn't check it out further. He only weighed in 10lbs day one of the tournament, not enough for me to reconsider locking thru during the tournament. The second place guy had found maybe a better area that I came close to finding during practice, it was in a very shallow area that I had turned away from when I was in less than 2ft of water. My mistake was not talking to the two boats that were in there during practice. They were catching 16lbs everyday of practice and it kept producing. Everyone else had a tough time getting bites except for a few tiny bass, which I had no interest in. I worked hard trying to catch at least one big bass....it didn't happen? Two of my friends from OKLA. did well and made the top 25, Jack led day one w/ 20lbs and big bass 8.5lbs then zeroed day two, he finished 7th. Mike won regionals then finished 24th nationals. I was ashamed to weigh in my two fish! This was a very easy lake to zero on this week and I wasn't the only angler embarrassed by his performance. I learned even more the importance of location location location, so I will approach practice in more of an investigative way as to whos on fish and whos not finding them, I need to look closely at sentiment during practice and try to figure out who is pretending not to be on/off fish....we usually clam up when we find a spot. I'm putting this behind me now and concentrating on the opens. I got my new boat home....turns out its not worth $31,500 but only about $24,500...thats ok, it will help payoff my skeeter. I can't believe how much 3weeks of traveling and fishing cost me! I'm still very tired after two days of rest, I'm leaving again tomorrow for Shreveport to pick up my skeeter then fish 2 tournaments on Toledo Bend. I need to whoop those local boys and get some confidence back! I'm still getting better every tournament and will be the one to beat soon!<g> I'll be working on my sponsors before the first open Jan 16th in FLA's St Johns River. I'll be fishing the elite50 as a non-boater on Falcon and Amistad this spring, I should learn something from the top pros this spring helping me w/ the remainder of the opens. I should be a pretty good angler by summer? Apparently, I'm still paying my dues?<g>