I managed to get up to our campground early enough on Friday, that I got out on the chain on Friday evening.  To this point I had mainly practiced on the West end of the chain and Friday night I decided to check a few of my Cross Lake spots to see what was happening.  Rick, Ryan & I launched in Echo Bay.  I check a coontail point that I had got nice fish off of in year’s past.  We caught several fish on Lake Fork Tackle Flippers and Sweet Beavers.  I also caught a few fish on Tru-Tungsten Ikey Head Jig teamed with a LFT Zig Zag.

We had time to hit one more area, I caught a couple bass on a Fall Craw Tru-Tungsten 3/8oz Jig with Grn Pumpkin Chunk and the other guys caught them on the beaver baits.  Nothing of any size to draw me away from my other fish, so Saturday morning we were going to head out to Upper and Lower Whitefish to refine patterns and find more spots.

We checked my intended starting area, I caught one nice fish on a Vixen  and the Ryan & my father each pulled on a few fish with plastics, and we got out of there.  We then started checking some old waypoints where we had found good coontail clumps.  About the 4th spot we checked I caught a 2lb’r and a 3.5 that set it self on my Tru-Tungsten Jig.  We pulled on a couple more, hit the next patch down and got slammed there but did not set the hook.

We spent the rest of the day checking docks and tried some new areas on Swedes Bar and Big Island.  Big Island had a ton of fish, no size.  We found some good fish on Swedes bar, I felt that was a good secondary area.  We found one good stretch of docks where we each pulled on a few bites.  We also checked the slop in Arrowhead and only managed a few blow ups on our Bronzeyes.

Overall, a good practice day.  Learned some new areas, found some bigger fish, and had a lot of options.  I drew boat 50 out of 67 at the meeting last boat 3rd flight.  My plan was to hit my starting weedline, hope to get a limit and then hit some coontail clumps and docks with Jigs to try to upgrade.  I should have the tournament summary tomorrow!

Rich
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