My 2 personal bests came on back to back days this past March while fishing Clark's Hill for the S.C. Crappie Association Classic. I took the Friday off before the tournament to practice and had not been on the lake but one other time in my life and that was about 5 years ago. We must have hit them just right because I found the fishing to be good everywhere we went on the lake. My second stop of the day landed me in an area where we eventually won the tournament the following day. I boated a PB 2 lb 10 oz hen loaded with eggs in that spot during practice.

Then, on tournament day, we went back to the previous day's big fish hole and started fishing. An hour went by with no bites and I was beginning to panic. Finally, a rod went down and i had a new PB on the line! A 2.79 weighed on the tournament scales.

Due to the circumstances and catching them back to back days I'm getting both the fish mounted. The 2 lb 10 oz was weighed on a cheap set of Rapala scales and I'm not sure how accurate they were. The 2.79 weighed 2 lb 9 oz on the same Rapala scales so I have my doubts on their accuracy. And the practice day fish appeared to be bigger in a side by side comparison. I was, and still am, very proud to have caught each of them!

Both were caught spiderriging the shallow water in the back of a creek.

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