Friday, June 25, 2010
> Day 1: 5, 17-01
> Day 2: 5, 24-01
> Day 3: 5, 17-09
> Total = 15, 58-11 (16th place)
My fish changed a lot during the week. I started out the first day fishing grass – pitching a jig in the milfoil – but that kind of died as the day progressed. Yesterday I got out on some ledges and caught them mostly on crankbaits, but also some on a Carolina rig and a 10-inch Berkley Power Worm. It's Guntersville and I needed a day like that to keep me up there.
Today I never got a bite on the spot where I caught the majority of them yesterday. It turned out that some other people were fishing it that I didn't know about. I caught them in the afternoon and another guy had been catching them in the morning and he was there today. I scrounged around on some other ledges and caught 17 pounds.
It was a decent showing, but I thought I had a chance to do better. I did lose one giant on a crankbait, but other than that it was a case of being close, but not quite good enough. I had 1 good day out of 3 and you really need 2 big days here. It's a fun place to fish and it's got a lot of bass – I think it's the best lake in the country right now.
The spot Brent (Long) is fishing, I practiced on it and caught a 4-pounder on my first cast, but I left it and never got to fish it in the tournament. I didn't know it was that good. It was going to be part of my milk run, but I underestimated what was going on there. That's the way it goes sometimes.