Ok I'm new to this website, but finally registered. Me and my dad fished the aba tournament at whatcom this weekend. on saturday, the weather sucked, we caught 16, but no big ones. we weighed in 13.80 lbs, and a big fish of 2.92. we went out after the tourny was over that day, and i caught three more. we only caught one fish saturday sight fishing. did i mention the weather sucked. we caught our fish primarily working spawning flats, but docks as well. we caught them mostly all drop shotting, but i did catch one of our keepers on a crank, and another on a split shot senko. today we didnt get bit until 8am, and again the weather sucked, but not as bad. we caught about 9 fish for the day. we weighed in 10.89 lbs, and didnt weigh a big fish. we had to weigh in two smaller bucks which hurt us, and put us out of the money. the only weigh we could get bit today was sight fishing, and of course that only was the case when we could actually see, which was very seldom. today we caught our fish on brush hawgs, senkos, and drop shots. our total weight was 24.69lbs which gave us a disapointing 8th, one out of the money. we were one 3lb fish out of the top five. the winning weight was around 30lbs. forest graham and jess bass of course won it, and no we didnt beet out hobbs and marcantonio either, they finished 6th, about one pound ahead of us. the winning teams pattern was sight fishing with a lot of patiance. the big fish of the tourny was a 4.91 smallie, fallowed by a 4.14, after that nothing over 3.5 that i herd of. this second wave of spawning fish are definantly a lot smaller in quality. also if anyone wants to look at the big bass blast results, they are on the fishing and hunting news website.
c&r chad