My first tourney of the year.

[BaSsFiShEr20]

Just got back from my first ever BFL tourney, and first of the year. The lake is the single best cranking lake in the state, and I pride myself in my crankbait skills. And, I drew with a boater who loves cranks as much as I.
Well, every single person I saw fishing the tourney was chunking and winding,as this lake has no cover to target.

Conditions:
Air Temp: 45 at launch, reached 52 by weigh in.
Water Temps: 46-52
Wind: 30MPH NE

I feel like I have been run over by a boat today.
On top of some VERY bumpy boating conditions, I threw a 15-20' Crank ALL Day.OUCH!. We fished the ledges, bluffs, and channel bends. The lake is still at winter pool, and the bass had not begun thier prespawn pattern.

Results:

ZERO bass, of any size. Not to mention the boater broke the tip, up to the third guide, off my favorite Cranking rod. >
Trolling motor died from fighting the wind all morning. :-/

And believe it or not, the winning bag was caught in 4-6' of water in water colder than we were fishing. :-[

I will not blame the weather, the wind or anything else, we just simply picked where they should have been, and they were not.
Could not get the lake to surrender any fish. He did catch one.12" and not legal.

Thats why they call it fishing and not catching.
Oh well, Â*The consolation is there were only a very few that caught any fish. We were not alone.
I will do better next time.

Charles