Friday, June 3, 2011
> Day 1: 5, 11-04
> Day 2: 5, 11-03
> Total = 10, 22-07 (73rd)
It was my worst finish of the year. I'm not happy. You're never happy when you have your worst tournament of the year, and it may be the worst I've ever done here. I'm pretty sure it is. So I'm just very disappointed.
I thought I was in store for a good week. I had a good practice. I caught some good fish in practice, but I don't know what happened. I didn't lose any fish. I just never got a bite over 2 1/2 pounds. When you have a good practice and get some good bites, it's pretty unusual not to get one or two of those a day in the tournament. There must not have been many good ones in the area I was fishing. Either that or I caught them all in practice.
I was fishing two different patterns within the same area. I had some beautiful milfoil I was flipping with a little Berkley HAVOC! Craw Fatty. I was also punching little milfoil clumps with a 7" blue-fleck Power worm. I also caught some fish off laydowns swimming a Berkley Gripper jig tipped with a 3" Chigger craw. I'd gotten some good topwater bites in practice, but I never got one during the tournament.
Everybody pretty much fishes the same way here. All the fish are shallow, in 3 feet of water or less, so everybody's flipping or throwing topwater. I guess I just didn't find an area with the right fish in practice.