Congrats to everyone.  To the top three and everyone "Good job, way to go and Jose WOW what a fish". 

Wish we could have been there but hey stuff happens, next year.

Keri

Congratulations Mark and Carlos Great job.

i think this was the toughest bite of the year for our tournaments and we have had some tough bites.  i think alot of people were around fish but it was tough to get one to open their mouth let alone six of them.  great job mark and carlos.  that was also the biggest smallie i've seen in person, i wish i coulda seen them when they landed it  .  cant wait till next year!

troy

Sounds like a tough bite.  Man...I hope it's not like that on Saturday.  I'm fishing the Open tournament.  My first tournament and the weather is supposed to be bad too.

Hopin', what is with the Hopin', Larry you and I together on Lk Washington....doesn't get any better than that.  This weather and that lake....right in our wheelhouse, we are going to rock 'n roll.   

BillB

Yeah,
  One could say it was a tough bite.  I seen only one good fish caught after the fog lifted both days.  ( Smallie that is )  For those that are fishing the Michelson, get to your good spots early and try to get your smallies then.  Have 3 or 4 known spots that have produced fish for you at this time of the year and keep rotating thru those spots early.  Carlos and I fished fast.  We would hit spot and stay for maybe 30 minutes tops.  Even if we caught some fish at these spots.  Its a matter of covering water and getting thru as many goods spots as possible and being there when a smallie or two was on the feed. Saturday we hit about 20 spots. Sunday we refined it down to about 8 spots and hit them multiple times. We fished our lures very slow, hopping the jig, not dragging it.  Short little hops.  Drag it a couple of inches and then another little hop.   Jose can confirm this is how he got his good fish also.  With the weather being bad in the up coming week, the smallie bite may last thru out the day, as opposed to just a morning only bite.  Just keep rotating thru your best spots.  The only other advice is to get to your best spot and camp on it all day, hopeing that enough fish will turn on throughout the day that you might get a good limit.  I can only think of 5 spots on Washington that I might do that.  Coleman point, Pleasure Point, Webster Point, 520 pilings, and Hunts point.
  Best of luck to you guys fishing this upcoming weekend.  Do the club proud

Mark

Great fish, how soon will we see it in the pages of Bass Master. A true trophy!!! Congrats!!!