Our day can only be discribed as "The big one that got away." Both me and Paul J had on bass that would have got us a check. emoBang Paul's was a very big one and might have won it for us and took Big Bass. emoMad We started off in pretty good shape boating a 3.28 lber and a 2.78 lber in the first couple of hours or so but other then a few slicks we just could not seem to put the other one in the well. emoAngry The 3.28 was off a 10 inch worm and the 2.78 was off a swim bait. We decided at 10:30 to head for some grass shallow flats where we boated a couple more slicks and finally off a grass batch just off a point a good one that looked around three to three and a half came totally out of the water and crushed my spook. I set the hook hard, could not turn it and it buried up in the grass. We went to it but it had come off. emoBang At about 12 we hit a long point that came out into the main lake and PaulJ finally got our third keeper. It was so small however he almost threw it back before checking and I told him it was so long and skiny that I had better make sure. To both of our surprise it was 15 and a hair so he rounded off our limit. Try as we may we kept catching slicks. At 2:30 I told Paul I had one more place to try before we headed back, weigh in was at 3:00. His first or second cast he gets a hard hit on a jig and sets the hook. emoEek Rod doubles and he yells "Its a good one!" I started to go for the net and his line breaks. emoBang If that isn't bad enough as we are standing there discussed it comes up trying to throw the jig hung in it's mouth. emoDoh IT IS A GOOD 5 TO 6 LBER!!!!!!!!!! We were sick. Time was up and we headed in. Our three went 7.69 lbs which was good for fifth place. They paid four. emoBawl...first out of the money again.
David Craft and Buddy took first with 12 something, Rogie Brown and his partner took 2nd with just over 10, Damon and his partner took third with 9 something and Bumble Bee Kid and Rigsby took fourth with 8 something. Like I said we needed to get rid of that dink and we would have had a check.
It still was a great day on the lake and we had a great time. It is always nice to be in the race even if you don't come in in the money. We had our chances and blew it.
C-ya on the water. Jmax
David Craft and Buddy took first with 12 something, Rogie Brown and his partner took 2nd with just over 10, Damon and his partner took third with 9 something and Bumble Bee Kid and Rigsby took fourth with 8 something. Like I said we needed to get rid of that dink and we would have had a check.
It still was a great day on the lake and we had a great time. It is always nice to be in the race even if you don't come in in the money. We had our chances and blew it.
C-ya on the water. Jmax
