06-21-2009, 09:00 AM
<br /> Jmax and I decided to fish the 7-2 night tourny out of HBSP tonight. We launched and headed up river (which was one of if not the roughest boat rides I have ever been on) where Jmax killed them on Thursday only to find a boat camped out on the spot. We decided to fish a near by ledge and glad we did. We were both throwing drop shots (which until tonight I had never caught a fish on) and we started catching fish right off the bat. My first fish on a drop shot ever turned out to be a 15 lb blue cat. Great battle on my spinning rod at 6lb line. After boating a couple of short fish I boated a 5 lb channel on the drop shot. May start catting with them. After about an hour I finally put of first keeper in the boat, a solid 3 lber on the drop shot. Jmax on the other had was killing the 12-14 inchers but did finally put a keeper in the boat before dark. Jmax was using a small worm and I was using the 4&amp;quot; Powerminnows on my drop shot. Fish were in about 18-25 feet of water.<br /> At dark we made a more to a grass bed and Jmax proceeds to put two more keepers in the boat. Both fish came on worms in 4-7 feet of water.<br /> Our next area was Wolftever to chase some of Jmax&#39;s pets. We started out slow but managed to put our final keeper in the boat and cull one. We also boated a few short fish and I hooked what felt like a good fish but it pulled off as it was getting ready to jump. Fish were caugth in 10-12 feet on worms and Midnight special spinnerbaits with Chigger craw trailers. <br /> We headed back out to Harrison Bay to our final spot. We ended up culling three more times and Jmax got a nice fish in the 4-4.5 lb range to anchor our limit. These fish were all boated on worms in less than 10 feet.<br /> The last fish we put in the well was hooked in a bad place and bled out in the livewell and died about 20 minutes before weigh in. So we only got to weight in 4 for 12.75 lbs. With the dead fish we would have been around 15.25 lbs. Took 22 lbs or so to win with big fish over 7 lbs. In the dark we could not tell the fish was bleeding but it died too quick to have been anything else. The fish that died came out of 5 feet of water so it was not an air bladder issue and it was only in the well for about an hour or so.<br /> We end up boating 26 largemouth (10 keepers), 2 spots, 1 channel, 1 blue and a warmouth. Awsome evening on the water. Thanks for the ride Jmax, it was fun.