Had our final in state division tourneys of the year, held at Glen Elder and Wilson lake. Both lakes fished really tough, only 3-4 limits, out of 70 boats, weighed in over the two tournaments. Water temps were chilly, we didn’t see anything over 45* where we were fishing.
The first tourney at Glen Elder was tough for us. We only weighed two fish that tourney, but good enough for a 10th place finish! We thought this would qualify us for state, but weren’t sure. I caught my PB smallie, at 3.5. My buddy caught a 16 inch largemouth, and that was our bag for the day. Tough day of fishing, but a good finish. Had 5.5 pounds for 2 fish.
My PB smallie, and the largemouth my partner caught:
The next day, at Wilson was a lot better for us. However, it was really tough. We fished from 745 to 10 without a bite. Then, we were fishing down a do-nothing bank, when we saw a shad bust, and I made a cast and caught our first keeper and second biggest fish of our bag.
Then my partner caught our second keeper and his personal best smallmouth, at 4.5 pounds. Next, I caught three more keepers to fill out our limit. My partner proceed to cull out those keepers of those keepers, making our smallest fish a 16 inch smallie. I threw a magdraft for awhile, trying to catch a kicker, but couldn’t get another bite on anything from 11 to check in at 3:40.
We went to weigh-in thinking we could make get a top fifteen, since 23 pounds had won an adult tourney the day before. We weighed in the first, and only limit of the day, and won the tourney by a couple pounds!! We weighed 15 pounds and some change.
