Water Temp: Low to mid 70's (just a guess)
The Day:
My boater Tim was confident we would crush them. The fish had other ideas.
We started outside a small cove along the South shoreline. Nothing there. I started topwater, then went to spinnerbait, then to a jerkbait, then back to a smaller topwater. As we got to a rocky shoal at the cove entrance Tim got his first keeper a small smallmouth. I'm not even sure what he was fishing with. We started approaching some docks. I think Tim caught a fish and needed to re-tie so I went to the front of the boat. I had a fish hit my Shower Blows when I wasn't paying attention and lost it half way to the boat. It was just a small keeper, no big deal right? A little way down the shoreline I got my big bass of the day on the Shower Blows. It was a smallmouth that went about a pound and 2/3rds. That was it for me for quite a while. We jumped to a couple of reefs. Tim had a good smallie break him off because he had his drag set too tight.
Tim was drop shotting and hardly getting a bite. That really played with me mentally because I just was not prepared for the day to go down like that. Finally, about 3 hours in we headed for some bullrushes. Tim got a good largemouth on his second cast and then quickly missed one. I missed hit on my frog in some small pads. I then got a small keeper off the back side of the rushes. Tim started culling and I got one that barely went over 12-inches. I missed a couple more bites in the rushes.
We went and tried some other spots. I got a couple shorts off of a small point. We went back to the start spot and Tim got his big bass, a 3lb smallmouth. It just wasn't happing there so we jumped a couple of offshore spots. Tim had a smallie get snatched by a muskie when he was bringing it in. He fought it for a couple of minutes before the muskie let go. Then the smallie got off Tim's line just like that. It wasn't a very big one and when it got off the muskie was in hot pursuit. We went back to the bullrushes to end the day. I missed one bite on a frog and I think I missed a couple that hit the craw tube but could have been rock bass. Who knows.
Three small fish, what a disappointment!
The Results:
My three fish weighed 3/12 and put me in 18th Place out of 20 anglers. Tim's fish weighed 12/04 and put him in 7th Place. He was only 9oz out of 3rd Place so breaking off that fish really hurt. The winner was non-boater Beau Bacon with 16/7. Lunker went to Chuck Fields with a 3/14.
My Thoughts: I didn't fish well. For some reason, I was checked out mentally for most of the day and just couldn't get comfortable with what I was throwing. I just think I was so unprepared for fishing to be so difficult. For at least the last two weeks of June catching bass for me became a difficult proposition. Not sure what it's gonna take for me to get out of this rut. I better find my mojo quick because the next tournament is less than two weeks out.
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