Better late then never, but here is Day 2

Coming into this tourney I had a plan that if weather would cooperate, I would fish the river south of Wabasha the first day and then fish my Lake Pepin fish on day two.  As many of you know, wind can ruin a day bass fishing on big wide open Lake Pepin.  So day 1, I caught a good bag from the river and it seemed like the wind would cooperate for day 2, so my partner Paul & I were 4th boat out and we headed up past Lake City.

We were all by ourselves when we got to this little rock point.  We fished it hard with topwater.  I was able to catch two nice keepers on a Yellow Magic.  I then hooked a 3lb plus smallie on a bone colored Barely Legal Vixen, but I horsed it a bit near the boat and he got off.  About 5 minutes later, I hooked another nice smallie on the vixen, this time I took my time and we put her in the net.  We caught a few shorts, then moved to the next area.  My partner finally caught a nice keeper on a bone Pop-R, I caught some small fish, but nothing I wanted to keep.
 
Here are the pictures of the Yellow Magic as Promised, can be found at Basspro.com

The next area produced a nice 16″ smallie on the Yellow Magic.  I then hit a few isolated pieces of cover and my partner got a short bass and then I got a nice 16″ largemouth on a Green Pumpkin Candy Mizmo Big Boy Tube, that was before noon.  Felt good to get that 5th fish so early, we spent the rest of the day working our way down Pepin trying to get Paul some more fish.  He caught several shorts and then finally we got back around Wabasha and I made him throw my Yellow Magic and he quickly missed one and got another nice keeper smallie.  We had a few more bites after that, but nothing made it in the boat.

I was confident I had more then enough weight to maintain my position in the point standings but was note sure if I had enough to cash a check.  I could use a check to fund a trip to Nationals.  My total ended up being 5 fish for 12.27lbs, which kept me in 5th place for the two day event with 10 fish for 25.25lbs and got a decent check.  It also moved me up one slot for the year from 6th to 5th.  My father also managed to catch a last minute keeper to secure his trip to Nationals.  My club mate, Dave Ham held onto his 7th place spot to go to Nationals by putting together a nice 10lb bag after just 1 fish the first day.

Time to start planning, I thankful for my wife to be understanding and let me fish Nationals even though we are expecting an addition to the family come spring

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