1St Season Comes To An End.

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My partner and I finished our first season of fishing a "real" bass circut the last weekend of Sept. Looking back over the summer it shows we both have alot to learn about the competitive side of bass fishing. We fished a total of 5 tournys with a two day classic as the end of year. That alone was a challange. Boat check at 5am and weigh in at 3pm equals alot of time on your feet and thousands of casts, plus trying to stay positive through the slow times. I have a new outlook on fishing bass tournys, and a new respect for those guys that consistantly get in the top ten.

Our last tourny was the best for us of the whole year. Day one we were in 12th place with 13.73 and big fish of 4.41, while 1st was 17.92lbs with a big fish of 4.97. Pretty confident with our position going into day 2 we ended up really struggling. Fished very hard for 8 hours covered miles of water and came up short. We ended up at the scale with only 2 fish for 3.92lbs and a total weight of 17.65. 1st place total weight was 34.23! Needless to say we have our work cut out for us next year. 54 anglers brought in 232 bass (179 largemouth and 53 smallmouth) for a total weight of 639.10 lbs. with 0 dead fish great job.

Heres a couple pics of my partner and I at the weigh in.