07-13-2011, 09:00 AM
I hadn&#39;t planned on fishing this tournament because A, I was originally fishing by myself and B i suck at night fishing. 2 years ago, I lost a good buddy who past away fishing a night tourney by himself. My wife has never let me fish alone at night because of this and I understand why, anyhow, long story short, i found a guy at work who had never fished a tournament but wanted to give it a try so we showed up at the ramp ready to go. By 9 pm we had a limit weighing 9.5 lbs fishing ledges in 15 fow on a plum yum 10&quot; worm. By 10:15 he thought it was time to weigh in and I informed him that weigh in wasn&#39;t until 2 and by that time it was too late. He had a booty call and was ready to go.... mind you he is 18 years old and I guess my hummingbird graphs didn&#39;t look as good as the 18 year old who works at pizza hut so he was ready to head back to the ramp at the dam. When I dropped him off I headed back up river and it started a downpoor so I got fed up and headed to the house. Congrats to all that fished well through the darkness and rain..... I applaud you. I guess I will have to take the tourney I was in Joplin working and this last night tourney as my drops so I can stay in the hunt for AOY with jmax, dropshot, pointer and Churly and many others. Anybody that can catch them at night has my respect because I simply loose all faith when the sun goes down and completely turn into an ignorant angler. The next night tournament will be a survival task for me. <br />