01-09-2016, 10:00 AM
Decided to fish the 3rd annual Crap-Ass tournament That Seth Coleman puts on every year . It's a fun tournament ! You can have a 3 bass limit , plus a 5- crappie limit . Or you can just weigh bass or just crappie . Like I said it's just for fun . My partner Jason had never fished any sort of tournament before , so I thought this would be a fun one to start with . I hadn't been out since last Sunday and it was nothing to brag about . So I just decided we would stay in Chester Frost all morning ( weigh in was at 11) . Water temp was 55.6 all morning . Bait everywhere ! Started throwing rattle baits for the first 30 minutes . Only had 1 bite . Switched to a 1.5 squarebill. First cast 3lber . 10 minutes later I landed one pushing 8lbs . Jason switched to a squarebill and he got our third keeper . Another 3lber. So we had a good limit , but I told him we needed to cull the two smaller ones . Idles over to where we started . Jason lands one just over 4lbs. So that culled up a pound or so . Idled over to some stumps . Within 10 minutes I landed another just under 8lbs . So at that point we had an hour or so left . I really wanted to catch a limit of crappie , but couldn't pull myself away from the bass . We caught about 4 more , but none would help . Our best 3 weighed 20.8 lbs and best 5 would have been right around 27. Was a fun short morning .