elwestb
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I think they had twenty-five boats to register but I believe that only ten or so boats actually weight in at 2am. I think the weather from Friday night's monsoon rains scared many others away. They had some great door prizes from sponsors that were raffled away too. They even feed us with hotdogs, hamburgers, chips and drinks! The fishing was slow to say the least for everyone. I lost a fish on my third cast that was about 4- 4 1/2 lbs. for a great start! She just jumped off right at the boat! We both caught a few more to finally fill out our three fish limit and culled about three times but it was slow grind. We both lost two fish each that we think all were much better fish than the three that we weighed in. But we only actually saw one of the fish. Tim lost a pig-hawg that plastered his spinner bait. Suddenly he yells out "bigg'in" and I saw his rod buckle as the fish started taking out drag. He pointed the rod down at the water trying to keep her down and I could hear the drag going zip, zip, zip. I grabbed the dip net and flipped my head lamp on and about that time Tim said, I can't turn it! Then she just pulled off!? We only had 11.73 lbs. I just couldn't believe that we won with that. As I said it was a tough night! On the way in to the ramp for weigh in we talked about how we had had our chances but we just blew it by loosing those other fish. I don't remember who was second but I think that they had 11.69 lbs. but the weights went down hill after that really fast. The guys that had the big fish I believe was over 6 lbs. Tim and I fished four different spots and caught fish at all of them. The fish were caught in about 12 - 20 fow. We hooked, lost or caught the fish on jigs, worms, shakey heads and spinner baits. It was a good event, a beautiful and spent with good company!
