Another Tournament….Another Trophy

Posted: April 18, 2010 by Bobby Didier in Fish Reports, Out of Area, Warm Water


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Had a club tournament on our other local reservior, Quail Creek on Saturday.  It was another tough day on this lake.  It is a older lake and is known for some really big bass but less bites and more days with no bites.  The water is warming up and was in the 58 range.  The weather was near perfect with sunny skies and a high of 85.  The fish have moved shallow and were starting to get locked in on spawning beds.  This of course makes for a really fun time sight fishing. 

We started the morning throwing spinnerbaits and my partner catches a nice 2 1/2 lb fish.  Then we keep searching moving in the shallows looking for fish but only spot a few spooky fish here and there but no fish that want anything to do with us.   We move toward the main creek arm and start noticing more fish up shallow.  We spent quite a bit of time on fish that wouldn’t bite.  Then we find a pair that seem to be locked in on a spot.  We both work the bed for a while before my partner finally hits the sweet spot with the right color stick bait and we boat our 2nd fish of the day.  A nice fish over 3 lbs.  We keep moving and looking, fishing different fish but no takers. 

We get close to the mouth of the creek and spot another pair locked on a spot.  One of the fish spooks off and the other stays put.  We work the fish for a long time and can’t get it to bite.  We leave and continue on and but don’t see anything.  Before we were about to cross over to the other side of the creek arm we go back to the fish we just left.  We try hard with every lure in the boat.  I was just about to give up trying when I noticed the fish looked to be getting agitated.  It started to push my partners bait away from the bed.  I decide to try one more bait.  A soft plastic jerk bait (fluke) in baby bass color.  I get rigged up, drop the fluke on the spot and the fish did not like it one bit and just eats it.  I set the hook and Fish on!  A short fight and we get her in the boat.  A nice 4 lb 5 oz beauty.  Now we keep moving, looking for the same pattern and fish numerous fish and spots and come up empty.  We decide to go back to where we caught fish #2 and try to get the other one to bite.  Get there and the wind has picked up just enough to impair our vision.  We can barely see them but keep trying to get the lures on the right spot that will make them bite.  This goes on for a long time, not really sure how long.  I finally get the fluke in the right spot and the fish bites.   I set the hook so hard, my line snaps.  Many cuz words later, I retie and we keep trying to catch the fish with the new lip jewelry to no avail. 

We had about a half hour left in the day and I tell my partner to give up and move on.  We cruise up the lake looking for another fish locked on.  I spot a nice fish as we are searching.  I noticed the fish didn’t spook or even budge.  We go back and the fish is just locked on and it’s not moving.  Exactly what we were looking for.  We both start pitching lures down below.  I toss that baby bass fluke down there……now I’m not even sure what happened here, but I thought she picked up the bait, so I set the hook and my line snaps again….I’m pissed, thinking I just blew it for a second time.  My partner tells me the fish is still there, so I re-rig the another fluke up on my big flippin stick rod with 14 lb test.  I was using 10 lb test.  I still blame the line.  I’ll be respooling that reel later.  Anyway, on the first toss back down she nails it.  I set the hook and she fights like hell.  Trying to take me in the bushes nearby, under the boat, my drag is too loose, the handle is doing nothing, I tighten it down and finally start to gain some line and after a short war, we get her in the net and in the boat.  5 lbs 8 ozs!!!  High fives ensue.   I look at my watch and we have 10 minutes left.  Hell yeah.  We ended with 15 lbs 11 ozs for our 4 fish which earned us 2nd place.  We also won the Big Fish award with that last fish.  The first place team was the only team out of 9 that had a 5 fish limit and had about 4 1/2 pounds on us.    3rd place had four fish but were 3 lbs behind us.  4th was 7 lbs behind us with 3 fish and 5th place had only 2 fish.  6th and 7th had only one fish each.  The last two teams didn’t even catch a fish.  It was a lot better than last time we fished, but it was damn tough to get those fish to bite.   I’m not sure we could have made up the 4 lbs with that fish I broke off, but we would have been a hell of a lot closer to winning it all if I had landed that fish.  Oh well, we made money and got some more hardware for the wall and great memories.

Comments
  1. daheller says:


    Another nice hawg! You guys are on a roll. I like that 85 degrees and sun stuff and especially like those piggy largemouth.

    Sal

  2. Bear says:


    You guys are on a role now. Keep it up, and another angler of the year is in the bag.

    Bear

  3. Big Burge says:

    Way to go Bob D!!! Word

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