John (club member who is fishing as non-boater) and I tried to get an early start from the cities, but we still did not manage to get on the water until 9:30am.  The action was still quite good when we first arrived.  We started on a weedline in Lower Whitefish where we caught 13 on a DT6, mojo rigged Baby Ring Frys and Texas Rigged Baby Brush Hogs.  We then moved up shallower and I caught 3 nice fish on a jig.  We then spent some time graphing a few weedlines.  We fished another weedline and caught 5 keepers, drop shot Fluke and Baby Brush Hogs.  We then checked some slop, not much action there.  Few small fish on a Bronzeye Frog.

We then hit a few shallow pockets on the way back the landing and boated a few more keepers.  I caught 3 nice fish on a 5/16oz Bluegill  SWL Spinnerbait.  36 keepers later, it was time to get off the lake and get back to the hotel, and Famous Dave’s for dinner.

Day 2 we were on the lake a little after 6am.  We headed up to Trout Lake.  I started with a DT6 and got a few quick fish and John picked some up on a Baby Brush Hog early.  I switched to a Reaction Innovations Vixen topwater in the bluegill pattern and caught a couple short fish.  The area produced several bass, but not much for size.  We then hopped over to another point, not as many fish, but some better quality.  Caught those fish on a drop shot Fluke and texas rigged baby brush hog.  We then worked a bunch of docks, it was slow going, I caught several fish on a jig but not the quality I was looking for.  Not going to get it done in this tournament.  We had to head home early today, so we hit one more area towards Pig Lake on the way back the Hay landing, managed one keeper on a jig.  This day eliminated more water where as Sunday I found some areas that I will probably use.

I will get to prefish one more day on Saturday before the tourney, I will be concentrating on deeper weeds to find a more consistent big fish bite.  I expect to probe some coontail clumps with Tru-Tungsten Jigs.

Tomorrow will be final day of Marion practice and Pan-O-Prog preview.

Rich
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