FirstLight
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Normally I would run all the way up to the dam out of Sullivans ramp, but we had a chance to prefish for 3 hours Friday morning and got a few bites in the canyon and in Mullins so we decided to see if that would hold up on Saturday; even with the changing weather pattern.
We Pulled into our first spot to try and get a quick limit of spots and only got one squeaker there. That was disappointing. Moved up river to a channel bank with wood and large rock. There we quickly put a couple chunky fattys in the box to go along with the small spot. Calder wanted to chunk the spot from the get go, but I said please leave it in there until we can cull it lol. Not long after he sets the hook on a 4 pluser, gets her in the boat, and chunks the squeaker spot. emoBigsmile He caught that fish using a popping topwater bait. Text book topwater deal, the fish came up and hit the bait, he paused until the line tightened up, and then hammered her, fish had choked the bait. That fish rode around with us the rest of the day. We caught fish throughout the day after that and were able to upgrade a few times; including 2 fish over 5 pounds to go with that 4 pluser. emoThumbsup We did go down river below Sullivans at about 12 to try a couple areas where we have caught big girls in the past but that didn't work so we ran back up river to one of our Channel stretches to try and upgrade again and that was it.
If you told me we would catch that bag on channel banks in April, I would have probably laughed. plastic worms were the baits of choice. Calder was throwing shakeys and I was throwing T-Rigged. We top watered some but they had moved off that with the front. (except for his 4 pluser)
Thanks to the guys on the committee for another well run tournament.
We Pulled into our first spot to try and get a quick limit of spots and only got one squeaker there. That was disappointing. Moved up river to a channel bank with wood and large rock. There we quickly put a couple chunky fattys in the box to go along with the small spot. Calder wanted to chunk the spot from the get go, but I said please leave it in there until we can cull it lol. Not long after he sets the hook on a 4 pluser, gets her in the boat, and chunks the squeaker spot. emoBigsmile He caught that fish using a popping topwater bait. Text book topwater deal, the fish came up and hit the bait, he paused until the line tightened up, and then hammered her, fish had choked the bait. That fish rode around with us the rest of the day. We caught fish throughout the day after that and were able to upgrade a few times; including 2 fish over 5 pounds to go with that 4 pluser. emoThumbsup We did go down river below Sullivans at about 12 to try a couple areas where we have caught big girls in the past but that didn't work so we ran back up river to one of our Channel stretches to try and upgrade again and that was it.
If you told me we would catch that bag on channel banks in April, I would have probably laughed. plastic worms were the baits of choice. Calder was throwing shakeys and I was throwing T-Rigged. We top watered some but they had moved off that with the front. (except for his 4 pluser)
Thanks to the guys on the committee for another well run tournament.
