After the previous day I finished 70th overall with 2 fish and was quite confident that day 2 would be promising, I drew a very nice Pro that resides in Tennessee and knows the lake quite well. The morning looked good and fishing was again mainly concentrated around pitching brush and trees on the lake edge in about 2.5 – 4 foot of water. My Pro hooked the first keeper on a Spinner bait, but the fish snapped the Spinner bait in half, leaving him with the blades only. So remember, never bend that Spinner bait straight too often. We started catching a lot of fish, but most of them were just short of the 15 inch mark. We moved on and started working a classic lay down and sure we both got a good bite, but were wrapped in the branches. I lost two more good fish when I was snapped up on 15lb Fluoro. Then it was on to harder tactics, I changed to 80lb braid, and every fish after that stuck. We must have caught about 100 fish between the two of us all just short of the 15 inch required length. Whist we were fishing a secluded bay an ominous feeling and atmosphere hit us and all of a sudden 5 foot waves came up and a white wall of rain was approaching us. We did not expect the speed that this rain was approaching us and before we knew it 60 mph gusts were hammering us and flooding the oat and pushing us into the bank. We finally managed to get the boat into open water facing into the gale force wind and 5ft waves. I thank my lucky stars that I was with a pro that could handle his 21ft Ranger in this storm. (I had the feeling this was the outskirts of a tornado) That afternoon we were told that there were severe storms in the area that killed 5 people and caused a lot of damage. An experience to remember.
I finally ended up catching my only keeper at 15h00, just before the finish. It was a good fish of 4.05 pounds (1.84kg).
Thanks to both days pro’s that really made this an enjoyable tournament to fish.
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