I fished a Southern Utah Bass Anglers tournament today at Quail Creek Reservior.   This mid April tournament is usually a bed fishing big fish bonanza, but since we had a wicked cold front hit earlier this week, it dropped the water to 51 degrees at launch.  This made for a very tough bite.  There was 13 boats in the tourney and only one team had a limit of 5 fish.  Three teams did not catch a fish either.

We actually struggled all morning without a bite until 6 hours later I hooked into our first fish.  She was a prespawn female that was 4 lbs 4 0z.  I caught her with a Yum Crawbug/green pumpkin with a 5/16 oz round jig head inside it.   Then we went back to struggling until about 20 minutes before weigh-ins.  I caught another fish off a deep ledge with the crawbug and she was 3 lbs 9 ozs.  My partner hooked up into a nice fish and got it to the surface and it shook it’s head and came off.  A couple casts later I hooked into another on the same ledge.  A 3 lb 4 oz fat bellied largie.  Then time was up.  Another half hour and we might have had our limit.  We finished the day in 3rd place with those 3 fish I caught and 11 lbs 1 oz.  The 4 lb 4 oz fish was enough to also get me the 2nd Big Fish Award for the tournament.  Tough day, but we rallied at the end to make it a nice day.  Took a couple pics of the first two fish.





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