It will not take long to cover this tourney because I only fished half the tournament, but that is all I needed to get 2nd place I guess….  I was traveling for work on Friday and due to mechanical issues with Delta Airlines, I got to spend the night in NYC and was not able to get to my tournament until 10am at Big Marine while everyone else started fishing at 6am.

Fortunately I was fishing alone, so I did not have a partner that was effected by my misfortune.  I got to the lake, picked up my 3/8oz Green PumpkinT ru-Tungsten jig and targeted shallow cover.  I quickly caught a nice keeper out of a piece of brush in some dollar pads and then started methodically working docks around the lake.  I managed to catch 9 keepers and several short fish.  I did pick one up on a Sweet Beaver, but he was quickly culled, so all my weigh fish were on my go to jig.  It turns out most people struggled in my club that day, not very many limits.  My final weight was 9.9lbs with a 3.2lb big fish, good enough for 2nd and propelled me from 7th to 3rd at the end of the day.

If you have not heard, Tim Tucker, outdoors writer was tragically killed in a car accident this past week.  He was a long time journalist that covered bass tournaments and it is sad to lose his talents.

Congrats to Tim Horton for lapping the field at Champlain and Steve Clapper for dominating at Lake Erie.  I visited Tim Horton’s Website and he has a cool little blog section where he updates after every tournament, very nice.

Should have an update soon on my St. Croix tourney as well….   Also, I found some good info on the lures that Tim Horton used that I found….

Rich
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