Amistad Elite Series Practice & Day 1Detailed

I met Derek Remitz early in the morning at his motel to get loaded up and we were on the water before sunrise. The very first ledge we fished he caught one over 6lb and shook off another bite. I was trying a few different baits at the time, but honestly if felt good just to wet a line & be bass fishing again

We hopped to the next ledge and we both pulled on some fish. We basically spent the day driving around with the graph and looking for ledges and then we would stop and fish for a few minutes, get a few bites and leave. We also went up and looked in a few pockets and flats and there was limited activity.

Derek caught most of his fish on his Omega Custom Lures 3/4oz football jig and a few one a 1/2oz Tungsten texas-rigged senko. All my bites came on Carolina Rigged 10″ Power worm (Camo & Green Pumpkin).

Derek Remitz's Amistad Football Jig from Omega Custom Lures

Angler Alley was pretty cool before the pairings meeting, got to meet several pros and check out all the new wraps. I drew Glenn Delong from OH. Looking at his BASS stats, I have almost as much career earnings in BASS as he does His best finish ever was the WildCard qualifier, and that 12th place & a good sponsor has him on the Elite Series.

We started on a shallow flat south of Ward’s point only about 10 mins from Diablo East take-off point. He had a nice one on a green-pumpkin Venom Rattle Shake that came off next to the boat. He ended up boating 4 small fish out of this spot on texas rigged senko, Venom Rattle Shake and DD100 Pointer. I caught 3, two on a Pumpkinseed Power Slug (one was about 4lbs) and one on a light carolina 10″ Camo worm.
Rigged with weightless with a Smart Peg and two Force beads

We fished 3 more areas, he got on more keeper on a the pointer. We then came back to his starting area and we each caught a couple small bucks, he culled once and all mine were short.

He had 5 fish for 8-11 and I had 4 for 8-11 He was in about 100th place and I was in 49th.
I would like to thank Trip for covering the Tru-Tungsten & Secret Weapon Lure logos on my shirt with the weigh bag

My dad faired much better fishing with Denny Brauer, he had 5 fish for 16lbs and was in 11th.
Dad’sbag was anchored by this 7-02

My weigh slipped told me I was with former Classic Champ Takahiro Omori, so I was pretty excited about day 2. He told me he was catching all his fish on DD22’s and lipless cranks and that we are starting about 10 minutes from launch. I was prepared to make a big charge, because Omori had 26-5 the first day.
Check back tomorrow for details on Days 2 & 3 of the tourney.
Rich
RichLindgren.com
Rich’s Bassin’ Forum
Bass Fishing Tackle Blog