Practice day 2 started with me figuring our why I was not getting power to my front graph.  It only took me about 20-30 minutes to get that squared away.  Ryan & I got the boat gassed up and launched just south of the fox rive on Lake Winnebago.  We started fishing some weeds and scattered rock in 3-5 feet in North Asylum bay, this was an area that we fished in the June Bassmaster Weekend Series tournament.  I quickly caught several fish on White/Blue Secret Weapon Spinnerbait, none of them were keepers and Ryan got a short smallie on a Gold 1/4oz Rat-L-Trap.  We moved down and I tried some soft plastics and caught a short largemouth, I had one other good bite, but that was it.

From there we moved into the docks, we fished about 40 of them and got bites on 3, I marked those with the GPS to revisit later if I was looking for a good bite, as the one fish I caught was over 3lbs on a tube.  After docks, we spent a couple hours hopping reefs looking for a smallmouth bite.  The first half dozen left us with a single walleye to show for it.  Finally we started working lighthouse reef, we found a couple key areas with zebra mussel beds where we got a few keeper smallmouth in the boat on soft plastics.

After that we worked some grass areas with swim jigs and caught a handful of smallies that were just short of 14 inches.  We then tried some pads in the south river up in that area and got a couple largemouth keepers but nothing too exciting.  We then moved back out on to the main lake and hopped down the lake working weeds in 2-5 ft of water with swim jigs, caught a few more short smallies.  We ended our evening in South Asylum bay, we caught several largemouth on docks, but none of them measured.  I then moved back into the bay and Ryan got a nice fish on a baby brushhog and I caught another on a tube, then pulled on another good bite.  This was the best area we had fished in two days.  This was another area that produced for us back in June, things had changed but it was clear that there was some good potential left.

It was after 7pm again before we loaded the boat, got some burgers for dinner, another team meeting and only a slightly earlier bed time.  2 more days of official practice left, tomorrow is supposed to be calm, so my plan is to run the east side of Winnebago for smallies on reefs.

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