Well I woke up at 2:30 am to a whopping 46 degrees after the
cold front blew through Friday here in North Texas. Took off to Lake Fork at
4am to make the check in at 6:30 with a good group of area kayak
fishermen.
I didn't make up my mind until I was in the parking lot to
where I wanted to fish. I felt like I
over thought what I was going to do all of last week and put too much stress on
myself to have a good finish. I decided
to go to the same area that I have had success last summer and knew that the
fish in that area should be in all phases of the spawn. With post frontal conditions and blue bird
skies the fishing was pretty tough to say the least.
I made it out to the fist secondary point and caught three
right off the bat and by the time I worked my way around it and looked back
there were two boats in that spot. There
were three different power boat tournaments on the lake the same time so it did
get crowed for a while in that area.
I decided to go to some deeper water that I had some success
with last summer to try to get some post spawn fish and caught my limit as well
as culled a small fish I caught off the point.
By the time it started to warm up I went shallow again with
a buddy fishing the same area to try to get him on some fish and noticed fry in
the shallows. I missed one and he picked
up two fish along the way that were guarding them. As we started running out of time and making
our way back to the boat ramp to load up I started noticing bass on the beds in
the back of the cove that had moved back up that were deserted only a few hours
before.
I didn’t think I had enough to win and wasn’t sure if I
would even place in the money but my 84.5 inches won it. My largest fish was 20
inches and missed big bass by ¾ of an inch. Had a great time and looking
forward to the last tournament June 2nd. I’m tied for first in point
for AOY with one tournament to go.
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