Chick 6-15 bass

[churly]

My patner and I fished the HBDF last night. We caught a ton of fish on most stops, alot of shorts ones! On the third stop, My partner lost a good 3+ that spit a "Dixie jig works" SB at the boat. Finally At about 9:00 I put our first keeper in the well (16"LM). 5 minutes later on another drop Chris scored a decent keeper. With 10 minutes left till weigh in We were catching a fish every cast and every one was 14.5" Finally we saw the flood of boats heading into HB, and we knew we ran out of time and 2 keepers was not going to get it. Those fish were biting on that drop so well we opted to stay out and just enjoy the bite. As luck would have it Chris got a 4+ at about 9:45 and I had another good keeper shortly there after. We decided to leave those fish alone and look for some more drops with feeding fish. We fished till about 11:45 and did not catch another keeper. We probably caught 45+ fish with 4 keepers making to the boat. All of our fish were caught on deep SBs, CBs, and 1 ounce c-rigs. It seemed like the bite turned on really hard Just before dusk, and died at about 10:15. they have not posted the DF results, so I am not sure what won. But, it was an absolutely beautiful evening.

 

[churly]

I just found out 8+lbs won it and it took 5.60lbs to get $$$.

 

[jon the fisherman]

sounds like a good evening of fishing, but don't count your chickens before they hatch. This past Saturday, there was a night tourny that ended with everyone getting their money back. Seems that no keeper fish were caught, and one 15" fish would have won. It must have been real tuff that night.

 

[churly]

Wow! Yeah if our fish would have bit 20 minutes earlier we would have had a nice sack. Two years ago, my patner and I were fishing one of the dogfights out of Chester Frost on a friday night 8pm-2am. we could not catch a keeper all night and with minutes to go I boated a 3lb lm. Got back to the weigh in and we thought we didn't have anything worth weighing. Ended up making out with a good payout as that was the only bass weighed in. I think the night bite would get alot better if it would warm up and this North wind would stop.