Well Bartlett Lake is always a popular one due to the ability to catch numerous fish, especially small ones but my partner and I decided to try for a few less bits and go with bigger than average baits for the lake and going smaller if needed a fish or two. We were going to cover one end of the lake to the other as the day progressed an see what we came up with.
The game plan took us down by the damn at the end of the lake which produced a few fish early on a deep crankbait, but only two kept. As we moved off the drop off and down the bank, my partner hooked into a really nice fish on a crankbait. The 2.5lb fish is a pretty decent fish for the lake so we were happy to have it early. As the next hour or two passed the fish seemed to quit biting so it was time to head towards the river and see if we could upgrade and fill out a limit. We made a few stops on the way but only accounted for some short strikes. As we made it into the river, I was throwing a A-rig and my partner was throwing a tube. Within a few minutes we had two quality fish in the boat and were on our way to culling. We went further into the river and I was throwing reaction baits and my partner stuck with the tube to give the fish different options. He figured out what they wanted as he caught fish after fish and they were short striking mine. We culled throughout the rest of the day and lost a fish that cost us big fish honors as well as first place. We finished with 5 fish for 8.97lb and finished 15th.
With 1st-20th separated by less than 3lbs and 4th-16th by less than 1lb, the fish we lost really cost us. It was the only mistake we made throughout the day and that's fishing but at leas the fishing was fun and the lessons learned were easy to accept.
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