Miller Lite Qualifier

[Duke]

I stink!! I fished the Miller Lite Tourney at Lake Wawasee and stunk up the place. I fished against 75 teams by myself (partner had something come up) and only weighed in 2 fish 3.79#. I believe that finished me around 45th place. I'm coming to the realization that I am not very good on this body of water  . That frustrates me because I really like it. At 10:30 I had no fish (only 1 dink too) and then I tried something that I promised I would not resort too and instantly caught a 16" and a few dinks. 20 minutes later I caugth a 15" and more dinks. I was pumped and thought I had figured something out  . 4 hours and a handful of dinks later I realized that my pattern was NO GOOD!!  The truth is, I couldn't get bit on the main lake if my life depended on it and I'm sure thats where most of the fish were caught. All of my fish were shallow. I need help on this body of water and it pains me to admit it  . I am guessing that nearly 20 limits were caught, which pains me even more. The winners had 12#. Worst thing is that I didn't qualify for the classic (new truck and boat for winner) which is on the St. Joe River; a body of water I know well...  I'm doing a lot of crying ain't I?

I hope you're all feeling better than me!

Duke

[canvsbk]

        In case you didn't notice there were alot of very good fisherman who didn't qualify and they had partners!
       All the guys I talked to did poorly early but later in the morning,about the time those A 10's were messing around the bite started to get better.
       You probably don't have room in the garage for another boat anyway!

[djkimmel]

Me and Wawasee have only gotten along outside tournaments also. Been a while since I've fished an event there... I'd not be much help - only fished there in the spring too.