It would take too long to break down every day of practice in to a separate entry.  So I will bundle all the practice into one entry and then each tournament day will get their own entry.  And then maybe I will be caught up through my Bass Weekend Series tournament by Friday.  This would be the start of 9 straight days of bass fishing

I left my house in Lakeville before 5am on Saturday morning, picked up my dad and we launched on Boy Bay. It was a windy first day, but we went right to the spot where I had caught 19lbs last year in a club tournament and my fellow club member Dave Ham was there and so were the bass.  We spent the rest of the day checking other areas and looking for new stuff in Boy Bay.  The best baits were texas rigged plastics, cane toads, & Stanley Ribbits.

Day two I spent in Steamboat area, found some new stuff as well as checked some old stuff.  Most of my bites came around reeds that day.  Stick’Em Lures Salty Sinkers & Tru-Tungsten Jigs were the ticket, and 1/2oz Black & Blue was the best by far.  In the evening I jumped in Ryan Brant’s boat with Josh, and the three of us went looking for Frog fish and we found them.  We probably had 20-30 blowups in 2hrs, we tried not to hook to many of them, being the tourney was a few days away.  I did the best on a white Optimum Furbit frog.

Here is a largemouth that fell for the Salty Sinker
Day 3, Josh Douglas & I launched near Brevik to add to the Boy bay water I had found, we started the morning by running to Horseshoe bay, that is where the tournament would launch from.  We looked for areas to fish on the way back to Headquarters.  I did catch a really nice smallie on the south shore, but only found one. 

Here is a my nice random smallie from Practice
 We also found a couple nice stretches of rice in Headquarters bay where we had several bites on jigs and a SWL BuzzR Bait Midnight Snack.  I also checked my best area in Boy and they were still there.

Day 4, was back to Steamboat.  Josh & I ran up the Steamboat river to Steamboat lake, we caught a few fish up there, but both agreed it was not worth the run.  We then found some Rice points in the upper end of steamboat that had good numbers and quality.  Check a few more things, found a nice marina where we got a big bite and kind of called it a day.  Tru-Tungsten jigs did the best again today.

Overall, I felt good about my practice, I had fish going on both ends of the lake, I could fish areas no matter the wind and had a good mix of types of spots.  I was going to wait until after the pairings meeting to finalize my tournament game plan.