my first tournament....

[carolina-rig-01]

well the day started off with a brisk 77 mph boat ride at the crack of light, dodging logs that were floating in the lake from the recent storms we had. and let me tell you guys if you haven't been that fast in a boat, don't kid yourself into thinking you can imagine it! it litterally feels like your face is being peeled off, it's very cool. i am the co-angler to a guy that fishes a lot of big money tourneys he is good! this was a club tournament so i feel like i drew a good partner. we fished windy banks all day and he wore me out with a jerkbait. he was using a lucky craft, i always refused to buy lucky craft because they were "over priced"...well i am rethinking that. i had a xcaliber jerkbait in the same exact color and couldn't get bit. i mean basically if you put these baits side by side you couldn't see a difference for the most part but in the water there was a night and day difference. he caught fish all day. it wasn't because he front ended me with the trolling motor either because he was real good about leaving me good fishable water. and he told me not to be affraid of throwing ahead of the boat, he is the kind of guy you would fish with for fun, just a great guy. anyways i could see my jerkbait bite wasn't going to happen, he said he would give me a jerkbait but he didn't have anymore so i went to a jig. we caught several fish on windy banks and most fish were over at least 75 f.o.w. i got broke off on a jig while we were flipping docks and that cost us big. we finished 2nd with 4 fish. we missed winning by less than two ounces. that fish that broke me off really came back to bite me in the a$$. none the less we placed and i had a blast.