08-10-2017, 09:00 AM
VERY tough night for Frank and I. We entered this one with a lot of confidence. We both know that water down there pretty darn good but it didn&#39;t help our results at all on Friday night. We started on a rip/rap bank with heavy current hitting it. I hooked a small spot on a spinnerbait that came unbuttoned half way to the boat that was probably not a keeper anyway. Moved on to try some other stuff and right before dark I catch a 15&quot; SM on a dark colored crankbait near a bridge abutment. Felt like we might be on to something so we work that pattern for a while and don&#39;t have anymore bites doing it. It is well after dark now, so we move to some shallow slack water areas that sometimes hold spots. Work the areas hard with shakeys and cranks, nada. At about 11 they had cut the water back some so we decide to move up river and try some 10-12 FOW areas near deep water, nada. At 12 we run up to the dam and get up next to the wing wall just hoping for something good to happen. I&#39;m sure by the time we got there, those fish were well educated as to what shakey heads, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, spoons, etc. looked like, so again, nada. We move out of there after about 45 minutes and fish near the lock. End up catching a keeper walleye and a keeper sauger on a crankbait on consecutive casts believe it or not. We end the night drifting from the railroad bridge down to the CB Robinson Bridge hoping for roaming smallmouth bass to be feeding and all we get on that pass is a flathead catfish and a white bass. <br /><br />All the areas that we fished have produced for us in the summertime months. Not Friday though. <br /><br />Congrats to all those that caught fish and finished in the $. And thanks to the committee for the hard work in organizing, doing the blast off, and doing the weight in.<br /><br />