MBC Super Teams - Lake Pleasant - Jan. 26th

With the fishing at Alamo Lake as bad as it was, the tournament director made a lake change Tuesday before the tournament, Lake Pleasant was the choice. I dislike Lake Pleasant most of the time but I figured it couldn't be any worse than Alamo, so I had some hope for the tournament. Thursday brought in a front that dumped water Thursday, part of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. My partner and I didn't mind the storm coming in but with no prefish, I had to go off of some info a friend gave me. With my motor blowing on Wednesday, we needed to take my partner's Ranger. We were boat 2 and I knew it would be a race to the back of Humbug.
With rain pouring and first light creating impaired vision we headed out across the lake. We made it to Humbug partially frozen and wet. We decided to throw Alabama Rigs and crankbaits early. It seemed to be the right decision with the bass busting shad shallow but we just couldn't get them to go. At 12pm and only 2 fish in the livwell I was starting to worry but we knew the fish were there. I made a change that I should have done earlier. Instead of a weedless A-rig I switched to the normal setup I have thrown the last few months and that was the ticket. The fish were mouthing the bait and I was missing fish since the hooks weren't exposed. Within tow cast we had the 3rd fish in the livewell and it was just under 3lbs, our best of the day. Over the next 2 hours the bite became consistant and my partner and I only threw the A-rig. We filled our limit and culled 3 or 4 times and caught plenty of others that just didn't help our total. We left at 2:30 to make our weigh-in time of 3pm. We weighed a little over 11 lbs, which was good enough for 3rd place and 3rd big fish.
We were happy with the turnout but we could have finished better, we figured out the bite a little late. The fish made the bite feel like were ticking tree branches since they were mouthing it instead of hitting and crushing it. If would have switched to the exposed hook A-rig earlier the tournament may have turned out differently. The bigger fish were caught early, and we were missing them not knowing the bite. It was a learning experience but on a rain filled and tough day we worked through it for a great finish. The points race tightened up so anything can happen with 3 tournaments left.