When a good pattern just isn't enough

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Our local club had a tournament this weekend, I took off work friday to prefish. During the prefish I found a good pattern fishing dock pilings with a jig. On tournament day we set the plan into action, we hit our pilings religiously. We must have had 6 other boats fish them at times with us and only seen 1 person pull a little dink off of them. We fished them all day, and I only lost 1 bass (had to be 6+, wrapped me up in the pilings, I got a good look at him just couldnt get him out, and he came unbuttoned) Conditions were tough, a cold front moved thru the night before, wind was blowing 15-25. Despite all that I put together a 16.5 lb sack of fish.

I thought surely that would do it, well at the weigh in we had a 20lb sack and an 18 lb sack so I took 3rd. Not too bad, and definitly helped me out on our AOY race, but It is kind of dissapointing when you put the time in, find a pattern (wich was different than anything the rest of our crew was doing) catch some quality fish, dont make many mistakes and still come up short.

Does it make you second guess yourself, or your decisions on the water when you think you have it figured out, only to find out at the weigh in someone had a better day?