Fishing Forum

Use to be if you had over 20 pounds on the Chick in July you might win the tournament or at least place. Not any more. emoBawl Today Derek and I had one of our better days catching around 40 bass with at least three limits of keepers. Issue was as has been this year you better have a big kicker to win, we did not have a big kicker and needed it bad. Derek had me four to one in the well early but before the day would end I culled every one of them. Had a five, a couple fours and our smallest was a 3.58 pounder in the well. On the CBA scales they went 20.99 lbs. I finally showed up for one of these CBAs but so did a bunch of other folks. emoBooHoo They paid 12 places and we were 14th I believe. Got a $75 gift certificate for our efforts. Hard to believe that 20.99 lbs in July would just get an "At a boy". emoCrazy <br /><br />On a positive not we had a great time. Caught bass most of the day. Never hit one place where we did not boat a couple. Not one stop. The three baits we had our success on was a shakey, deep crank and a swim bait. The bigger bass came from 15 to 25 foot. A lot of the smaller keepers and shorts were shallow in and along the grass. It was mostly overcast today with a decent breeze so the heat was not as bad as it could have been. Had to really work with our fish all day in the well. That is one issue I don't like this time of year, keeping them in a live well that long. Lots of struggling stressed out bass. They were doing a great job of fizzing and working with them at the weigh in. I have said it before but I am going to say it again, I wished we could cut these day hot months down to less hours then 10. That is a long time to have fish in a live well when it is this hot.<br /><br />It took somewhere around 25 and a half pounds to win this one. Congrats to all those who got a check. emoWorthy Jmax