09-18-2016, 09:00 AM
Tough, tough, tough! It was hot, calm, glass water and really a difficult bite. I thought it might be and man oh man, was it. 16 boats showed up to fish this one and only 6 boats weighed in. :o I told James this morning I wanted to start fishing for Spotted bass, try to get three and then go to large mouth. The reason was I felt if the bite was really tough we might get three keepers spots better then trying to get three keeper largemouth. emoScratch First stop produced two keeper spots that were only 13 inches, but they count. emoBig
Both of those were on the main river in about 20 to 25 foot. One on a drop shot and one on a shakey. We then went up into Mullins but could not get any size. I think we boated four more large, all short. Moved back out deep looking for our third spot. Missed a couple and came in with half a worm. emoMad Stayed there way longer then I had intended. Moved down river and hit several deep places again looking for spot number three. Finally James hooked up with another and got in our third spot at a pound and a half. Knew we needed to cull so we headed for large again. Fishing grass flats we caught another five or six large, all short. emoDoh Don&#39;t know where the better large were today but we never found them.<br /><br />I mainly wanted to get in the top eight so we might keep the AOY honors. With the award being free entries into next year&#39;s tournaments that is worth winning. emoDance I thought we might have messed up until we got back and saw half the folks had left. Our three little spots only weighed a hair under three pounds but was good enough for forth place and they cemented us into the AOY position. emoToast This one paid three places and we almost got paid with that. emoEek James&#39;s best spot of the two he caught was right at 1.50 pound and it almost took big spot. Got beat out by one spot of Hughes and Norris who had one at 1.72 I believe. The Massengales won it with a couple ounces under nine and the son got big bass. emoWorthy I like it when the kids do well. emoApplause <br /><br />See you all at the Classic! emoAngler Jmax
Both of those were on the main river in about 20 to 25 foot. One on a drop shot and one on a shakey. We then went up into Mullins but could not get any size. I think we boated four more large, all short. Moved back out deep looking for our third spot. Missed a couple and came in with half a worm. emoMad Stayed there way longer then I had intended. Moved down river and hit several deep places again looking for spot number three. Finally James hooked up with another and got in our third spot at a pound and a half. Knew we needed to cull so we headed for large again. Fishing grass flats we caught another five or six large, all short. emoDoh Don&#39;t know where the better large were today but we never found them.<br /><br />I mainly wanted to get in the top eight so we might keep the AOY honors. With the award being free entries into next year&#39;s tournaments that is worth winning. emoDance I thought we might have messed up until we got back and saw half the folks had left. Our three little spots only weighed a hair under three pounds but was good enough for forth place and they cemented us into the AOY position. emoToast This one paid three places and we almost got paid with that. emoEek James&#39;s best spot of the two he caught was right at 1.50 pound and it almost took big spot. Got beat out by one spot of Hughes and Norris who had one at 1.72 I believe. The Massengales won it with a couple ounces under nine and the son got big bass. emoWorthy I like it when the kids do well. emoApplause <br /><br />See you all at the Classic! emoAngler Jmax