Saturday, June 3, 2006
It was a pretty good tournament except for the second day, but I never really got on the right deal to win it, I didn't feel like.
I was fishing the lower end of the lake and I had a couple of things going. I fished a few boat docks with a spinnerbait, trying to catch some of the fish that were eating the spawning shad. We were just at the tail end of the shad spawn, and I'd only do that for about an hour.
I had a pretty good topwater pattern going on the middle of the lake with a (Berkley) Frenzy Popper and a spook, and I had another pattern fishing a jig and a little worm on isolated trees on the bank. I fished down about 15 feet on steep banks.
I was just kind of junk-fishing, running around fishing all kinds of stuff. This is really a classic junk-fishery and there were a lot of patterns going on. Most of my good fish came on topwater or on a Berkley jig with the new Berkley chunk trailer.
I don't really know how to feel about the tournament overall. I had two good days, but I was pretty disappointed about that second day. I didn't lose any fish – I just didn't get bit. I guess I just fished poorly that day.
I didn't see anybody in the places I wanted to fish all week. I wasn't on a lot of fish, but I was able to scrape together enough to make a check.