MBC Super Teams - April 20th - Roosevelt Lake

Well with the great day that had at Roosevelt the previous week, I was hoping the cold front that moved through didn't wreck the area that I had been fishing. We knew it was going to be a race there, as 5 of the top 6 finishers all fished the same stretch. This was the first tournament I was running my boat at since the rebuild so I was a little nervous having to race to an area. Well I decided to make the run but switched my setup to run a slight but less mph that topped out and still kept it easy. The boat performed flawlessly on the first run. We made it to the area without an issue, and that helped ease the stress right away. I noticed right away things had changed, the water was cooler and not nearly as many shad up spawning. We decided to fish the area anyways, it produced fish but not the umbers from the week before. The fish were slapping at the bait which resulted in a few lost fish, which was frustrating. As the morning progressed and we only has a few fish in the livewell, including one over 3lbs, and a number of short fish, we decided to change locations to find some more shad in the cleaner water. That move bagged us fish 3 and 4 but nothing that we needed to win. We moved to an area my partner caught a nice fish at last week, but the bigger fish had moved and only a few unders were in the area. We decided the fish may have moved deeper and hit some area with dropoffs. We found a couple of fish spawning and while my partner watch workng the bed, I threw a jig out deep, 2 casts and 2 fish, one of which culled a small keeper from earlier. We worked the area for a while and moved further down whch produced a couple more crankbait fish but nothing of size. We went back to the area where we caught the jig fish and culled twice more on depper crankbaits. We made a move to same area I lost a nice fish at the end of the day last week, and withing a few casts caught another fish that culled. We had a small limit and looking back at where everyone finished up, we should have stayed on that stretch. As the day warmed up the fish moved back onto that stretch of water and the guys that stayed in the salt caught huge numbers of fish and 4 of top 5fished that small area. We locked up 6th place in the points and are looking forward to the championship in May at Apache Lake