Fished my second tourney of this season as a co-angler. The boater told me up front " be prepared to throw deep crank-baits.
So the days leading up to the event on a N Fl. lake named Sante-Fe, I came prepared with 5 and 6 strike King XD baits.
While other anglers pounded the shore line, I found myself well offshore looking @ the side scan @ a large piece of cover.
The boater after his 3rd cast bows the rod up and says "here she comes, net please" so I scalped a large sow and we knuckle bumped.
This got me going and we proceeded to make cast after cast. Make a long story short, he caught 9 fish I caught 0 !!! @ one point he even gave me the same color and size bait he was throwing. I changed presentations several times throughout the day including rattle-trap, C-Rig lizard, C-Rig 10 inch culprit, C-Rig finesse worm, Shakey head worms, and even lightly weighted Senko's to no eval. He ended up winning the event with 5 fish for 18.5 pounds, big fish pot, and lunker pot with his 8.5 while I posted a goose egg "embarrassing" and I still do not know what I did wrong.
A good angler put me on good fish, on his spot, and I made nothing work. And yes I am better than that but not that day.
R/Chris