Pre-fished Friday for the Corporate challenge tournament at Smithville. Targeted bass mostly Friday, figuring we could scrape together some crappie come Saturday and would need some kicker bass for a win. Did poorly only catch short buck bass on banks. Didn't look good!
Saturday morning turned into the standard Corporate Challenge day with rain and lightning early morning but ended right around launching time so that was nice! rained off an on the rest of the morning. We were afraid of the swing in weather so we hit the docks at little platte fist thing to try and pick up some fish and let the rain pass. Pulled 1 or 2 keepers off each tree at best. it was slow but we managed a to scrape together some fish. Ran up north and pulled in some very nice crappie real quick but that also stalled out. Seems like the big ones are few and far between. Ran back to marina to finish off the day 1 short of our limit and went to the weigh in thinking we were gonna get crushed. Almost everyone seemed to be able to find fish but quality keepers were the difference. One team weighted in 12 large mouth for 30 lbs! luckily they weren't in our division and by sheer dumb luck those quality fish we caught up north was enough to squeeze out my first win! I've got lots of 2nd place finishes so its nice to finally win one! all in all a fun couple days!
We didn't find any big ones on the banks, the big girls are still out a bit. should be ON by middle/end of next week if we can keep some stable weather!
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