Another tournament, another problem with the boat! This time we broke our trolling motor shaft on day 1! Here we go again!
The lake was ~1 ft high, yes, high. Those of you who know Lake o'the Pines are familiar with the fun all the stumps in the lake can be at normal pool, well, multiply that by 12" and you get the idea of how many stumps we 'tested'!
This tournament required the use of Spinner and Chatter baits, white and white/char-trues.
On day 1, we worked banks all morning until figuring out the fish were on the flats. We spent lots of time fighting the wind and had 2 real good hits, but in the end, Chris Thomas landed a nice 5.75 lb-er and I contributed with a big bag of nothing!On day 2, the weather was great in the early am... as was the fishing! Without trolling motor, Chris and I decided to push through the stumps and join the spawning bass in the shallow flats (~3 ft). We drifted from the mouth of the creek back to as shallow as 2 ft... by the time we reached the back of the creek, the wind changed out of the north and began to howl and rain/sleet.. however, during the initial drifting, we landed 4 fish. I ended up with ~14.6 lbs on 3 fish (6.99 lb big bass) and Chris contributed with a 2.25 lb-er and a total tournament of ~8 lbs. By 10 am we decided to call it and headed back to the ramp.
We had a great time, but no big bass (I missed it by .23 lbs) and no team win, but we had a blast and cannot wait for March 2014 tourney #2, Bob Sandlin/Cypress Springs!
