09-01-2013, 09:00 AM
We started in Marion county park throwing buzz baits and shakyhead. Seth missed 2 on buzz, and they were jumping all around us. We moved to a bank across from gales bar and Seth caught a short on shaky. Moved to running water where we caught several and our first long skinny keeper. Weaves over to the rest area point and Seth caught another short. Boat kinda acted up so we moved back to the park to be safe. Seth was idling by the dock when I asked him to stop so we could fish it....that's when I caught my pb 4.97 on shakyhead. I was so excited I couldn't re-tie. Best feeling in the world. He asked if I wanted to weigh it but I said no we need to get our third keeper. We moved down the bank and Seth caught another short on a worm and then another on a frog. We were running out of time. We worked the back of the park where I caught another long skinny keeper with 10 mins left. We boated up and headed for the weigh in. Aparently everyone struggled and we ended up in 2nd place. Was a better experience than what I expected. Caught my pb and finished in the money. Seth said I should retire from tourney fishing! We caught several small fish but got lucky. We fished from 16ft-2ft. Was a great first experience for my first tourney! Only been bass fishing for a month and a half!