Well, I am not sure how to describe this tournament as anything other than brutal. Last week the temperatures were int he teens and the temps for tournament were looking to be about 70 and a low in the 30s. My partner and I were looking forward to the warming trend in hopes it would have the fish moving around. Well as it turns out that never happened.
We launched Boat 1 and headed to our first spot. We threw squarebills and jerkbaits looking for some active fish. We covered water slow but effectively mixing it up with other baits as well including dropshots, shakey heads, jigs, carolina rigs etc. Nothing seem to work. We made a move to some rocky points and fished every onch of them without any bites. We decided to try some deeper water, hoping to find some suspended fish. We located a school in about 45ft over 68ft of water but from the arches they seemed like crappie but we fished for them trying to get a bite to find out for sure. After exhausting modified deep crankbaits, a-rigs, dropshots, and spoons we gave up on the fish and covered some bank with reaction baits. No luck on the sun warmed rock banks so went bak to the longer points with rockpiles on the ends to coax a bite. Nothing seemed to work. We finished the day off flipping some shallow trees and throwing blades through them as well. We were humbled and beaten but we weren't the only ones. Out of 24 boats only 8 weighed fish, and 7 of those weighed 1 fish. The winners weighed 3 fish for just over 6lbs and second was below 2lbs. Congrats to the winners they did a great job grinding out the win. I am looking forward to not seeing this lake again except during the late spring or early fall and hopefully it will be higher than 2 percent full.
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