JML Outdoors North Valley Nights - June 18th - Lake Pleasant

The second tournament of the series was at Lake Pleasant, not my favorite lake by any means. The river had just opened and out idea was to capitalize on those fish being fresh and untouched for last few months. The first run was rough and brutal, but we made it to the river before anyone else and it proved to have fish, just the wrong size. Without any prefish for this one we didn't know what to expect. We spent the first few hours of the tournament catching and getting bit but has nothing to show for it as all of them were non-keeper fish. We finally made out way out around 10:30pm and made a stop on main lake point/dropoff near the mouth of the river. It proved to be a great spot once we figured out the bite. We caught our limit by 11:30 and proceeded to cull fish. The fish were staging off the drop where bluegill were up shallow either bedding or feeding. We figured out the bite on Carolina-rigged brush hogs just a little too late and we weighed 5 fish for 8lbs and 10.5oz. We should have done better but just didn't have the time on the lake prior to have the better performance. We will take the 10th place finish, especially when we were going out just to have fun and be in the points for the championship at end of season.