This tournament did not get off to a good start, I did not have time to rig up everything I wanted the night before and I was late getting to the landing because I did not get out prefishing and was not sure where it was and made a wrong turn.  So everything I caught was going to be docked 10%

We ran to the far end down by the private landing and started working an inside turn that I had caught fish on before.  I caught 3 quick fish on a bluegill colored Reaction Innovations Vixen, they all crushed it. 
After another 10-15 minutes with no bites on topwater, I tried my Parrot DT6 and then a white Secret Weapon Lure spinnerbait and whacked a nice keeper on that in about 5 casts and then caught a northern on it as well.  I decided to make one more pass through with my Tru-Tungsten jig and caught my 5th fish pretty quick.  Fished it out a little further had a couple hits on the jig, but did not convert.

I then told my partner John (a.k.a. Brushog) to run the boat on the weedline while I rigged some rods for some other areas and for potentially finding bigger fish, plus he had not had a bite yet.  He quickly had one on and lost it, then as I was almost done tying up he landed a keeper on a Texas rigged Green Pumpkin Super Hog.  I then picked up my Berkley Watermelon Red Flake shakey worm on a 1/8oz Shakedown head that I just rigged up and whacked a keeper that culled on my first cast.  John then got his 2nd and I got bit off, end of flurry.

We then moved across to a deep point, John caught a two nice keepers on his Super Hog and I caught small ones, just one of those things.  We then jumped to another cabbage turn down the lake, once again I caught small fish and John was able to catch 3 good keepers to fill out his limit and cull twice on a Lake Fork Baby Creature on a mojo rig.

With about an hour left, we moved to the west side of the lake and started fishing shallow.  I was able to cull 3 times, two out of the reeds and one on a dock, caught on soft plastics.  I weighed 8.5lbs, but got docked .9lbs for late and John weighed 9.9 and he was docked 1lb.  I think I ended up 12th out of 16, not so stellar, and would have only moved up a couple spots without the penalty.  I ended up slipping two spots from 8th to 10th for the year, needless to say, not what I was looking for, took 14lbs to win.  On the bright side, I fished clean, did not lose fish, just did not get the better bites, could have been better had I practiced and found better fish.

On the bright side, just like in May, I turned it around on Sunday after a tough Saturday.

Rich
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