My partner and I fished the SCCA tourney on Wateree yesterday and ended up with a 5th place finish of 9.08 lbs. The bite was very good early but mostly 9 - 11 inch fish. Allen did manage to snag a 1.60 early that kept us in the area all day. Most fish were caught in ~16 FOW longlining around 10 ft deep. After the bite slowed, we started catching the larger fish but once the fog burned off and the sun popped out it really got slow. With 15 minutes to go I landed a 1.5 and a 1 lb fish which gave us 7 fish over a pound. We really thought we had a shot at the money when we packed up for the weigh in :pray but fell just short.
It was nice to meet some of the folks that I had never met and get reacquainted with some old friends from my earlier tournament years. I'm really getting into this tournament fishing again and had a blast all day with my partner keeping my sides hurting from laughing all day. We were so tired afterwards that I forgot to take pics but I'll do better next time.
Congrats to Crappie Buster for his 4th place finish and Drill Instructor for his second place finish too:ThumbsUp. They spanked our butts and had a good mess of fish as always. 10.12 was the winning weight for the day.
