Well, in my last post I was chomping at the bit to get out in the morning and whack them bass on that hump.  So my partner & I take off 5th boat with a hitch, get to the spot first.  Its a little too windy there for topwater, so I grab my trusty Parrot DT6 and cast & cast & cast……  I feel something slap it really hard but no hooks…..  then the rod loads, just a northern.  Well I fished it hard, with my DT6, lipless crank, Lucky Craft Pointer, etc…..  My partner caught two small keepers on a little white spinnerbait and I caught a small keeper on a 8″ Redbug Lake Fork worm on a jig head.

Also, after awhile my Loomis rods were really buzzing with the “energy” in the air, I even felt a few shocks through my rod blank, so we moved a little closer to the bank.  I started working some docks that I had prefished with my 3/8oz Green Pumpkin/Brown Tru-Tungsten jig & a 1/2oz fall craw version as well. I whacked them up and down the docks for about an hour, but could not find any over 2lbs, but I caught probably 30 fish on that shoreline.  My partner even caught one keeper along there to round out his limit.  We hit the hump one more time, I caught 3 more keepers on my DT6 but they did not help.

We started working our way back to the weigh-in, I stopped on some main lake coontail clumps.  I quickly boated a 1.75lb fish on a jig that did not help and a northern and tied into a 24-25″ walleye, got me excited for a little while anyways.  We ran docks the rest of the day, I was able to cull up once, although not much.  I missed a fish that I saw cruising, he picked up my jig twice but must of just had the claws of my trailer.  I also heard afterwords that his pro caught a couple of 3lb fish off some docks that I skipped, just a little misfortune and bad decision kept me out of the money.  I weighed 5 fish for 10.79, which was 15th and about 8oz out of 11th which was the money cut.  This is the first time I have missed the money in the 6 weekend series events that I have fished.  On the bright side, for the year I am 8th in points out of 73.  The top 8 earn a trip to the National Championships, right Billy?

Well on to Pokegama in a couple weeks, hope to have a strong finish is that is my favorite lake of all the waters we fish this year.

Rich
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