Walgreens Lake O Tourny

[bocabasser]

fished the walgreens tourny today with a guaranteed $2500 for 1st and they paid top ten boats. it was brutal hot today, so we decided to hit our spot first thing in the morning. as we were running to our spot we noticed a lot of fish busting the surface eating shad. we stopped and took a couple of cast with zero bites. continued on towards our spot and we saw more fish busting. we stopped, and for the next 2 hours we caught between 50 and 75 fish on rattle traps, spooks and big worms. we had 4 double hook ups and we were slaying them. my partner bangs a 5 pounder and i net the fish. as i am pulling his fish out of the water, i see 3 more 5 pounders swimming behind it. i hurried and set mikes fish on the deck, grabbed my rod only to have the trap get stuck in my shirt, at the same moment, the 5 pounder i just netted jumps out of the net and into the water. i was a little ticked. we kept plugging away, and we ended up with 19.79 and took fourth place. if that fish doesn't get away, we end up in third which was a $250 difference. oh well, thats fishing. the winner had 33 pounds, second was 24, third was 21 and we had 19.79. the magic number for depth today was 3.6 to 3.9. if we got into water that was deeper, we did not get bit. it's crazy how that lake works. still love it though.

[AK-Jax86]

atleast you got some cash though

[evrgladesbasser]

Another respectable bag, great job. Gotta love the lake, any level, any season, it produces.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Sounds like a pretty fun day all in all. Made a few bucks and caught a boatload of fish. Same you lost that five though. What can you do? That's fishing. Happens to us all.

Only fourth place though, Bruce? . Lol. Just jerkin your chain. Keep it up man.

[Bassn Blvd]

Dang, you're on fire. You're going to have Shimano and Strike King knocking on your door if you keep it up.

[Gotfishyfingers?]

33 lb sacks being caught in July, 50-75 fish!!!! .Nice job on sacking 20lbs!!!!

My buddy fished the bass busters tourney today and he said the winner had 8.80 w/ big bass 2.80.

I went yesterday and didn't catch crap. How do you judge depth like that? was it that calm? My boat would easily bounce around that much out there lol.

[topwaterrob]

that 5 flopping out sux....... solid performance though.... I hadnt heard of that tourney, where'd you find out about that one?

[bocabasser]

thanks fellas.

i wish shimano and strike king would come callin doug.

fishy- we just were in an area that was antwhere between 2 feet and 5.5 feet. we just kept our eye on the depth because every fish was caught between 3.6 and 3.9 feet. it was dead calm when we caught all of our fish. when the wind started to blow, the bite slowed tremendously. usually on lake o, wind is always better.

rob, there was a flyer on my windshield at belle glade promoting the walgreens event. there were 44 boats.

[Sam Fisher]

Sounds like you had a lot of fun, 2 bad on the lost fish but still its nice to be in the cash

[gar-tracker]

Another respectable bag, great job. Gotta love the lake, any level, any season, it produces.

My thoughts exactly, I love the summer low water conditions I catch more fish then any time of year. But its all good.

Nice bag.