Day 1
Launch is 7am. I will be fishing with Steve Coleman again today and we are boat 4. This is a new twist, last time you fished with three different people. This really helps you be ready for the days fishing.
We run five minutes across the lake to the first spot and the fish are busting on the surface. As most boaters do Steve has a topwater tied on just in case and this is one of those situations.
Me on the other hand with limited tackle do not. I do have a ledgebuster spinnerbait tied on and start burning it through the chaos. Neither of us can get bit.
Finally steve hooks one and it is what we thought it would be. To good to be true(hybrids). We start throwing our deep water baits and go fishless for 45 min. "lets go"
We arrive at our second spot, one we did hit yesterday. After about 10 min I get bit on the 10 inch worm. I swing hard and connect. Steve gets the net under a 3lber. After 30 more min of no bites we move again. Another spot we checked yesterday and Steve had two hits on a hookless crankbait.
We fish here for 30 min and get no bites. We then head back to our starting spot. There are two other boats nearby and we settle in to our area. We see a co angler in one of the other boats catch a fish and cull. WOW that was fast its only about 10 o clock.
Anyway Steve gets a bite and catches a quality fish. A few minutes later he catches a keeper. As I am watching him unhook his fish I feel that familiar tap tap. Another small keeper in the boat for me. Every time we look over at the other boat the co angler is landing a fish. It looks like he is having one of those days.
Meanwhile I am hopping the 10 inch worm and see my line jump. I reel down and drill the fish. Right away I can tell this is a good one. I fight it to the boat and in the net I see it is about 5lbs. Now its Steves turn and he catches a couple in a row, one of which is a quality fish.
Back to me and I catch two more that give me a limit. I catch another that will cull my smallest fish of 13 inches. I go to get it and What the Hell! its dead. You are not allowed to cull a dead fish so I am stuck with that fish the rest of the day. It was not hooked bad I have no idea why it died.
So I have a limit and two quality fish I decide to pick up the dropshot. I catch at least 8-10 more keepers with it but can only cull one time. Steve meanwhile catches a couple more quality fish and ends up weighing 14lbs and change. I end up with 12lbs 10 oz and fall in 13th place for the day. A good start that keeps me in contention.