I was able to practice for this event only on the Friday before the tournament.  I spent about 7 hours out on the water and found a few decent deep weed edges that were producing and checked a few shallow areas with mixed results.  I drew boat #21 out of 50.  Not too bad, but I actually would have preferred the 3rd flight and the extra time to fish.

I started out on a deep weed edge that created an inside turn that had some good coontail clumps on it off of Swede’s Bar.  I caught 2 small keepers there, but nothing like the bites I had in practice.  I then ran to a small shallow weed depression near by and caught a quick limit on a green Brovarney Swim Jig and actually caught one nice fish that was over 2.5lbs.  From there I hit another deep coontail area and we caught a couple more small bass.  I then ran some docks that had been good to me in the past and another weedline and just a couple short fish.  So I hit a small slop area that I had checked the night before and instantly started culling on a frog.  I think I caught about 8 keepers and culled all but my biggest fish in there in about 90 minutes.

From there I started running docks again, I could not buy a bite on docks.  I ended up getting one small keeper and a short off about 20 docks.  I saved about 20 mins for my starting spot at the end of the day.  Quickly after arriving I hooked into a good fish on my jig, she came straight up and spit the hook.  Looked to be about 2.5 – 3lbs, probably would have been a solid 1lb cull.  I kicked the buoy over and worked the area over with jigs and soft plastics, caught one more small keeper that did not cull and it was time to go in.

Me Pictured, hoping some how these fish would grow to over 12lbs
The result of this year’s Whitefish tourney were very similar to last year.  I caught 11.14lbs which was just out of the money, my dad won the non-boater side and Dean Capra won again.  Although last year, I do not think I dropped the fish in the last minutes that would have put me in the money.  Oh well, it was still a solid finish and I am guessing I am in 7th for points after 2 tournaments and only 10 points from first and my favorite body of water is next.  Congrats to my buddy Josh Douglas who is tied for the lead in points, but at the same time, I will be gunning to take the lead from him on Pokegama! 

Rich
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