Club had our classic this past Saturday. Got to the ramp and it didn't look good far as wind was concerned. Calling. 5 to 15 from north. It was blowing ever bit 15 from west when tournament started at 6:30am. With the wind Everyone was trying to decide to go for smallies or stay in harbor for largemouth. I decided to fish for largemouth till day light then make my decision. I started off with a 15" largemouth pretty quick. At 7:00 decided to head to main lake and take a look. I met dad at mouth and we decided to go to islands. I texted buddy Dave and told him we were heading out and would let him know when we was there. It took 30 mins to get to our spot. Dad and I started a couple hundred yards away. Dad had first smallie in boat in just a few minutes. I then hooked one and lost it right at the boat. Then hooked another and broke it off at the boat. Then Dave showed up. I finally got one in boat around 3.5 lbs. it broke the sinker off my drop shot so I picked ip other rod and hooked another immediately. Got it in boat and it also broke sinker off. I cast out my third rod and started to rig the other two rods back up when I hooked the third fish of day. It was fast and furious at first. Got my limit of smallies In 40 mins. Dad was still stuck on 1 and Dave had 2. I went on to catch between 20 and 25 smallies for the day. Dad and Dave each caught around 12 each. They had lots of them hooked but struggled to get them landed. I caught several nice smallies I just couldn't get one over 4lbs. My biggest of the day went 3.99lbs. Smallest was 3.4lbs. Dave and dad each had one over 4 and lost several in the 4 pound range. There was another boat from club about 1.5 miles from us. They too was on the fish. Well at weigh in there was 7 of us that had went for smallies and we all had limits. The winners limit went 19.63 lbs. I ended up 2nd with 18.71lbs. Third was 18.63lbs. Fourth was 17.22lbs. Big bass was 5.74 lbs and 2nd big bass was 5.13 both smallies. Dave had 16.09lbs and dad ended up with 15.39lbs Other limit of smallies weighed 15.52 lbs. The guys that largemouth fished had couple of bags around 13lbs. One largie went 4.71lbs. My tourney season is ended and I am now ready to do some serious fun fishing!!!






