You go Russ!! After all, we're really only in competition with ourselves!!

Bob

Sarge,

Never said they were a breeze, just not interested in fishing for smallies on this lake.

Russ

Sarge,
  You friggin crack me up!!!!!

To each his own.

Russ

Ya, those 19+ pound smallie bags are a breeze. I try to avoid them at all costs.

I to swung for the fences as I always do on this lake looking for big largemouth. The largie bite was just not there. I prefer to fish for these fish as they are much more of a challenge than fishing for the smallie bite in the usual areas which come much easier. Nothing against smallie fishing just something I prefer not to do.

The largie bite this year on that lake has been on again and then off again. I'm scratching my head on this one.

One of these days I will figure these fish out.

Two of my bigger fish came off flipping way back in the nasty stuff, but its a 50% chance you will get them and I know that when you are persuing fish this way.

Its always fun though trying.

Russ

Yeah the bite was tougher on Sunday and with the wind, made any sight fishing impossable. Saturday the fish were visable in the shallow flat areas and about half were aggressive enough to bite, the other weren't. You can easily tell if they are worth the effort usually on the first cast. As usual though, pitching into cover has its down falls. The fish come off easier. I actually only had 6 bites on Sunday and the first one came off. For some reason the bigger 4-5 lb largemouth were nowhere to be found. Spending time in the dunes over the years really helps learn them. You just have to do it. Good tournament. Ran well by Terry. Awesome turnout. Lets roll this right into Banks next month!!

We went for LM most of the time.  I got one in the dunes saturday for 3.67lb.  Sunday the wind was howling pretty good so we went straight for the dunes for a big 0.  

We had never really fished the dunes much and I think we gained some good experience this weekend.  I caught more during pre-fish, but thats just how it goes.  

I actually used a little of Don's strategy if you could call it that saturday   (if you made the meeting you'll know what I'm talking about).  I said to Susan, we keep seeing people running out of the dunes, I don't think we are back in far enough.  I scrolled around on the GPS looking to where we could get back in deep, made a waypoint and then drove to it.  We ran right into a bunch of others so we knew we found a good area    Just need to figure out how to catch them.  There's always next year, though I'm picking Moses  

took twenty pounds for top ten.  alot of nice bags on saturday, and sunday seemed alot tougher for most.

troy

Terry'll have the reports up soon, but so far I know that Mr. Don Hankinson roped some BIG smallies on day two en route to a 19+ pound limit and the win. Also, there were a couple of two-day weights over 30 pounds. It sounded like fishing was tough for some, but for those that caught fish, the quality was really good.

Chris

Whats the good word? Who roped em in?