I didn't take any pictures.
7:45AM-3:50PM Lower Whitefish, Big Trout, Lower Hay
Conditions: Low 60's, Cloudy with light drizzle in the morning, Wind to Very Windy ESE
The Day:
I missed the only bite right at the boat on Mark's starting spot on a Piranha with a Chigger Craw trailer. I don't think Mark got anything. Next we went somewhere on lower Whitefish where a point comes out. I got a 14.66" bass there on the Piranha and had multiple claws get bit off as well. Next we went to a close by protected shoreline. I got 3 pike pretty quickly on a white Booyah Spinnerbait, but the 3rd fish stole the lure. I think Mark got a rock bass off of a dock.
We next went to Big Trout to fish docks. Mark finally got his first keeper. I managed to get two keepers on a Yum Dinger. My lunker (2/1) came off of a pontoon boat lift with a pontoon on it. That was my last keeper of the day. I also missed a fish that felt good when it hung me up on a wave runner lift on a craw tube. I also got a pike on a weedline on the Craw Tube. Shortly after I got the pike Mark had a nice bass get off as it dove into the weeds.
We went back to Mark's starting spot and got nothing again. We spent the rest of the day in Lower Hay. Mark also caught a dink off of dock then had another good fish get off in the weeds on the same dock. Then the docks went dead. I caught a 10" dink out over the weeds and Mark caught his 5th and last keeper with about 10 minutes left over shallow weeds.
Results:
My 3 fish weighed 5lbs 4ozs which put me in 14th Place out of 18 anglers. Mark had 5 fish for 8/13 which put him in 11th Place. The winner was Mick Ziebell with 17/1. Lunker was a 3/9 caught by Swannie. Whitefish fished tough and only 7 limits were caught.
I ended up finishing in 12th Place for the year, behind two guys that didn't fish in two tournaments. smh
Thoughts:
Not catching fish sucks. For some reason the fish were tucked up well under the docks and the wind made making good presentations difficult even with Mark putting down the Power-Pole. The day seemed to fly by as well. Only caught two limits out of the six tournaments and weighed 26 fish out of a possible 36. By far the worst fishing I've done as a Snatcher. I didn't reach a single one of my goals for 2016 as a Snatcher. But I did have a good time despite the poor fishing I encountered.
Congratulations to Chuck Steinbauer on his 12th Baxter Bass Snatchers Mr. Bass title.
