Well I think it's finally over.

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This past weekend I fished what will most likely be my last tournament of the season. We finished somewhere around 17th out of 50 or so boats, pretty much the story of my season. We did win a few tournaments this season but for the most part it wasn't a great season. With all the stuff going on with the new house and starting a new job and not having vacation time yet, I wasn't able to do much pre-fishing at all this season and fun fishing was almost non-existant. All season long I had just enough success to know that I was close to figuring it out but I always felt like I was one step behind what was going on, and I never was able to dial in a really strong pattern to have a great day. The last 3 tournaments were such a grind that I was almost looking foward to wrapping up the tournament season. There was a great squarebill crankbait bite around shallow cover in the back of creeks and pockets, this is normally my strength as an angler because I love picking apart shallow water cover and feel like I am better than most at it. But no matter how much water we covered and how many creeks and pockets we picked apart we caught tons of short fish and struggled to find keepers while the rest of the field had pretty much the opposite results doing the exact same stuff. It's just been a tough season and although I hate to see it come to an end, I am glad that I am forced to finally take a break and try to dig myself out of this rut.