You know I have prefished like that on many occasions and found that either the weather changes like it did for Potholes or the fish move so far back in the laydowns you can't get them any way. I have also found that if you stuck them the day before and the weather stayed stable the day of the evnt you end up sticking more.

Go figure the fish are going to do what there going to do whether you stick them or not. In fact one year prefishing at the holes before the event we broke a fish off and caught him the next day with the hook still in its mouth.

Russ

I couldn't imagine your excitement just waiting for the following day after a pre-fish like that.  Stupid weather changes

i fight with myself on setting on fish a weekend before tournies.  it takes alot of self restraint to not hook fish when they bite.  depending on how the fish bite its instinct to stick em, which sounds like what you were dealing with.  at least you had fun.  sandbagger 

troy

Thanks for sharing...  Guess it wasn't the rigging then as I was texas rigging them too.  I'll just blame it on the weather

I almost always...unless in the rocks at Potholes or Banks....will Texas Rig the Senko...I also Meat hooked it deep in the plastic to avoid snags and hookups but as you see it did not help! If it is a difference, I buy knock-off senko-like baits on E-bay so the weight and salt content might be lighter as I have been learning.
Also did a lot of deadsticking just worried about gut shotting fish...(none were thank goodness!!)

Cool pics Larry   At least you caught some fish is all I can say.  So I have a question if you'll share, were you wacky rigging the senko or was it Texas rigged?  I skipped a senko most of one day and never got a bite so I'm trying to figure out if it was location, the rigging, or just the poor fishing conditions.

Silver Lake was the first test of the rule change regarding prefishing and well...for one of us it was a lesson learned!
Me and Jose prefished from 11:30 Friday till 6PM and it was good to get on the water and see the water temps but the catches were one-sided as the front of the boat got the bites...or should I say...the back of the boat knew how to shake off fish properly rather than set the hook! The fishing was windy and cool but water temps starting at 52 topped out in the canals at 59 but skiddish was the best term as the water was Chocholate Milk to cloudy and some lilly pads were starting to spread open...where fish were caught in years past...no movement was seen...skipping Senkos to and under bushes and trees seemed the only pattern that showed itself. First fish was a 2-1/2 scarred up fish....



The fish exploded on the bait as it was skipped into his wheel house and well...startled...I had to set up on it.....Fish number two..a 5.9 I believe hit a skipped senko (Green Pumpkin) under a tree in a bedding area from past knowledge....(Pic on the way...) again tried to shake her off but she set herself by ripping into the brush....
Fish # 3 was around 5.2....



Same color Senko and this one I set on as I had been getting hung up and thought it was the same stick that had tormented me! DUH!!!!
Fish #4 for the day...and the last! was a 3-1/2 lber on a Chartreuse shad colored Crankbait thrown at a dock in front of Streaters Resort in less that 4 ft of water!



Overall what I learned is that on the smaller fisheries it is not worth it to throw hooked baits although, I doubt that even if not hooked these fish would have still not have bit after the low-to-high pressure change that plagued us all over the state.