FirstLight
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When we saw the event was out of Holly Circle, we got kind of pumped up because that is the area I grew up fishing with Dad; and we still fish it a lot every year. He has taught me a lot of good spots up that way over the years. Not only that, Calder has some areas that he knows as well. So we had some options that we were confident in, anyway....
We stayed in Soddy Creek the first few hours of the tournament fishing some deeper stuff. We were fishing depths anywhere from 10 to 15 FOW because we thought that the deeper fish might not be as affected by the strong front that had just passed through, or the stiff north breeze predicted. We were able to get a 3 fish limit in the boat before 8am which was cool. Had 2 nice upgrades by 10 AM; a 3pluser out of some deep brush, and a 4pluser out from in front of a deep dock. Calder caught a really nice spot that we thought might have gotten paid for big spot if we would have kept it. She spit up a 5” yellow perch in the live well. She got a free ride in the boat for a while; but we were hoping we’d have to ditch her later for a big LM to take her place in the box.
Made a run up to Possum Creek at about 10:30 and spent some time in there working the creek channel edge and some docks and zero'd doing that. We both decided pretty quick that Possum wasn't the deal that day so we fished some secondary points on the way out with squarebills and caught a couple doing that but no help.
By now it was time to try and get a big fish to get rid of one of the three pounders we had. Fished some main lake points and lay-downs that have produced big girls in the past and could only catch small fish doing that.
Ran WOT in the waves back down to Soddy for the last hour hoping for a 5pluser in recycled water and found her at 1:35pm. Calder set the hook on her right behind the boat; so she went pretty wild there for a minute or 2 before I could slide the net under her and get her in the boat.
We caught around 25 bass I would guess. they were surprisingly friendly for us Saturday. Slow movers definitely outshined the fast movers. T-Rig's and jigs did the most damage. we caught a few on lipless & Sq bills too.
Great to see everyone again out there on Saturday.
Congrats to all that finished in the $$. it was a very tight race.
Thanks to the committee for another very well run event.
And Ken, I think I'll be following you in the next one. I seem to remember you winning one of the night CFF's out of RP in recent years lol....
We stayed in Soddy Creek the first few hours of the tournament fishing some deeper stuff. We were fishing depths anywhere from 10 to 15 FOW because we thought that the deeper fish might not be as affected by the strong front that had just passed through, or the stiff north breeze predicted. We were able to get a 3 fish limit in the boat before 8am which was cool. Had 2 nice upgrades by 10 AM; a 3pluser out of some deep brush, and a 4pluser out from in front of a deep dock. Calder caught a really nice spot that we thought might have gotten paid for big spot if we would have kept it. She spit up a 5” yellow perch in the live well. She got a free ride in the boat for a while; but we were hoping we’d have to ditch her later for a big LM to take her place in the box.
Made a run up to Possum Creek at about 10:30 and spent some time in there working the creek channel edge and some docks and zero'd doing that. We both decided pretty quick that Possum wasn't the deal that day so we fished some secondary points on the way out with squarebills and caught a couple doing that but no help.
By now it was time to try and get a big fish to get rid of one of the three pounders we had. Fished some main lake points and lay-downs that have produced big girls in the past and could only catch small fish doing that.
Ran WOT in the waves back down to Soddy for the last hour hoping for a 5pluser in recycled water and found her at 1:35pm. Calder set the hook on her right behind the boat; so she went pretty wild there for a minute or 2 before I could slide the net under her and get her in the boat.
We caught around 25 bass I would guess. they were surprisingly friendly for us Saturday. Slow movers definitely outshined the fast movers. T-Rig's and jigs did the most damage. we caught a few on lipless & Sq bills too.
Great to see everyone again out there on Saturday.
Congrats to all that finished in the $$. it was a very tight race.
Thanks to the committee for another very well run event.
And Ken, I think I'll be following you in the next one. I seem to remember you winning one of the night CFF's out of RP in recent years lol....
