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I went for an evening wade the night before the tournament to check out a spot for the tourney. Greg and I fished for about few hours without a nibble until after dark. I ended up landing 2 small reds and 2 solid trout, including a 26.5″ 6+lb trout. All Greg could muster up was a “potato chip” flounder. We each missed a few bites but overall fishing was very slow. We caught everything a morning glory hackberry hustlers on 3/8oz jigheads. My two trout weighed between 9-10lbs combined, but with all the good trout fisherman in this tournament, I knew it was going to take a lot more weight to have a shot at winning the tournament.
Tournament day the fishing was tough for Brandon (tidalguide) and I. We tried plenty of different areas but we just couldn’t put anything together. We tried reefs both deep and shallow, flats and bayous, but we couldn’t find a pattern. All we ended up catching were a few small reds and a foul-hooked croaker that was the size of the Corky Brandon was chunking. Jokingly, I tried convincing him to toss it back out with the croaker attached to see if we could change our luck.
We didn’t get off the water until late and by the time we made it to the weigh-in the festivities were already wrapping up so we didn’t so we didn’t stick around very long. Thanks to everyone who worked to put this event together and to Brandon for giving me a ride in his boat. I had fun and found some new water that I will definitely visit again soon.
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Tournament day the fishing was tough for Brandon (tidalguide) and I. We tried plenty of different areas but we just couldn’t put anything together. We tried reefs both deep and shallow, flats and bayous, but we couldn’t find a pattern. All we ended up catching were a few small reds and a foul-hooked croaker that was the size of the Corky Brandon was chunking. Jokingly, I tried convincing him to toss it back out with the croaker attached to see if we could change our luck.
We didn’t get off the water until late and by the time we made it to the weigh-in the festivities were already wrapping up so we didn’t so we didn’t stick around very long. Thanks to everyone who worked to put this event together and to Brandon for giving me a ride in his boat. I had fun and found some new water that I will definitely visit again soon.
Full report here...
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