07-07-2009, 09:00 AM
Forgot a jacket this morning so after a cool ride, pulled up on our 1st drop that tops out at about 6' & immediately start catching fish, problem is, they're mostly slicks. At about 7:45 put a limit in the well, but only about 6#, all caught on football jigs, & lost 1 keeper on a topwater. the 2nd spot we wanted to hit had a boat on it, so we moved to a shallow hump that tops out only 4' & culled all 3 of the fish in the well in 10 min. to up our wt. to about 8#. Caught 3 more keepers that wouldn't help & ran to a ledge that drops from 15' to 32' & lost a nice 3.5-4# fish at the boat. I let the fish get her head up & she slung that jig right back at me! About 9:00 headed back to the shallow hump & Brent caught a nice 3# to cull again up to about 9#. 9:30 move to a little underwater point along the river channel that tops out about 7-8' & quickly drops in 35-40'. Brent picked up his swimbait & threw up on the point & loads up on a good 4+ fish. Put her in the well & I'm feeling a little puny cause my son has caught all 3 we have! I'm not contributing much. About that time I get a thump on my jig, set the hook & a mule comes up. I keep her head down after that & put her in the net! I thought she was 6-6.5 but I always over-estimate my fish emoLaugh .Caught 4 more good keepers here but couldn't cull again. Thought we had it in the bag when Rogne & George Brown came up just short, but Pointer & Dropshot put a beautiful bag on the scales & beat us by 1/2#. Finished 2nd with 12.85 & 2nd big fish at 5.63. Caught fish on swimbait, football jig, 10" worm & topwaters. Great time today with my son & seeing so many of you guys at the weigh in. Great TX, Jmax & all you who assisted. We took a couple of pics & I'll try to get them off my phone & post them.