Well, our short practice came back to haunt us and our Faclon train derailed in the Bass Champs opener last Saturday. We made a bee line that morning to a place in Salinillas creek where I've caught several 40lb stringers in a matter of minutes in the past. We hit this place twice in practice and never had a bite but I just couldn't make myself count it out. When we arrived, there was a guide boat sitting on it and one of the clients had a fish on. We ran further back to one of the two schools we actually found in our 3/4 day of practice and after an hour and a half, we had two fish for maybe 5lbs. The guide boat finally left so we ran to my honey hole and wasted over an hour there without a bite. The only other place we'd found in practice was 15 miles back up the river so at 11am we headed that way. I caught a 4 and a 5lber pretty quickly but it wasn't every cast like we were expecting. Not really knowing what to do struggling so badly on the best lake in the world, I talked my partner into sitting there for another two hours and during that time we only caught one more 5lber which FINALLY gave us our limit. Finally Lani talked me into checking some of the stuff I found in 2010 that I'd been skeptical about fishing because it was fishless in November but at that point we had nothing to lose. The first place we pulled up on was loaded with 4lbers and we managed to cull a few times before we ran out of time. When we checked in it was taking 27lbs to get a check and we had about 23lbs at the most so we pitched em back. It ended up taking 45lbs to win and over 30lbs to make the top 30! We figured out that if we would've weighed in, we would've fallen somewhere in the 90's! Now that's an awesome lake! We got on the lake just after daylight Sunday to try and at least regain a little bit of our pride. We ran straight to the school we left biting on Saturday and caught a couple of 4lbers pretty quickly and Lani popped a 7lb. 7ozer on a crankbait. We fished more of the same type of stuff the rest of the day and caught several 4-7lb fish and I did lose something huge when I accidentally reeled my hoodie string up into my reel handle while fighting the beast! Now that takes some skillz! We finished up the day on the place we started and Lani caught several nice ones including an 8lb. 6oz. egg laden toad that ended up being our best fish of the trip. Our best five on Sunday weighed between 34 and 35lbs which was a little easier to stomach than our measley 23lb showing on Saturday. Unfortunately, there was no money on the line on Sunday but it was nice to know that we figured 'em out a little bit even if it was too little too late. I'm back in TN now getting my boat rigged and ready for the BFL's on Gville in a few weeks.
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| Lani 7lb 7oz |
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