Just got back from the UBK carp-o-ree. What a fun place to shoot fish.

We left home about 3 hours after it started. Got there just as they were finishing up the supper that they put on for the shooters. Registered and hit the water about 8:30pm. I felt kinda like Elwood Blues. "We've got a half tank of gas on a lake I was on once 5 years ago. We're going to a spot we've only been told about, with a map printed from the internet. It's dark. At least I'm not wearing sunglasses. Hit it!"

We actually found the place Joseph told us about. It was awesome. Now I know why there aren't too many Kentuckians running to other tournaments. If I had aplace like that to shoot I wouldn't leave either!

Very shortly after we got into the spot. I shot my personal best Buffalo ever, 26lbs 2oz. Just minutes after we got it in the boat Christine got her personal best carp, 24lbs 8oz. After some time we cruised back farther into the bay and just kept finding carp just a little bit bigger than the biggest I'd shot there so I kept flinging arrows. However I was having a bad case of peripheral archery disease.
Then we came upon a small, shallow cut. There was a tree hanging down on one side. I headed the boat in thinking it looked like a possible spot for a grassie. We got up to the tree and something HUGE started to come out of the shadow. My first thought was monster flat head, which are legal in KY. So I drew as quick as I could an put an arrow in it. Christine wisely put a follow-up in it's head. After a short fight, we had a 44lb 4oz bighead in the barrel. Another personal best.
We got back to the ramp about 3:30am, loaded the boat and headed back to the weigh-in site. We got back there about 4:30 and team Carp Trek was already sawing logs.

More later...