I fished Patoka for 3 full days of practice, plus 1.5 hours one morning and another hour 1 evening.  In total, I caught 2 keepers and 4 short bass.  My two keepers both came of rip rap banks with weeds.  One on a white Secret Weapon Spinnerbait and one on a Lucky Craft Flat Mini DR Crankbait in a Spatter Back pattern. 

I tried a bunch of different things and did not find much to go on.  I fished deep weeds, channel drops, channel banks, bluff walls, wood, backs of coves, the list goes on.  My plan for day 1 of the tournament was to hit all the areas that were similar to the ones where I caught my two keepers.  I figured two keepers a day would be pretty good in this tournament.  I felt pretty confident if I grinded it out in these areas I could get the bites I needed.

At the meeting I got boat number 130 out of 134, which was fine because I really did not have any really good area to start on anyways.  Its been awhile since I fished a tournament that I had practiced for and had so little to go on.

Rich
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