Fishing a team tournament is not particularly fun by yourself, but nonetheless I thought I would catch them well yesterday. Unfortunately the water up shallow went from 78-79 last weekend to 85+ this weekend, and the fish I was catching just evaporated. About 10 I went out deep but I have to admit I was so disappointed in my morning I was basically just fun fishing and hoping for a couple of giants to decide that my Crush 500DD looked like something they just had to eat. I did catch several fish on it including a 2.83 spot that I think is the largest spot I've ever caught on Rayburn. But my best 3 weighed maybe 8 lbs and I knew that wasn't going to get me anything. Actually truth be told I pulled up on a deep spot and was getting bit on almost every cast but couldn't hook up late in the day. So I pulled a 3/4 ounce spoon out and sat on what may have been the biggest school of sandbass I have ever seen. I fished right through the weigh in just having a blast (hey I was catching fish and it was fun!). At one point I caught fish (ok, ok sandbass) on 11 consecutive drops. On one series for 4 drops in a row I went catfish, drum, sandbass, catfish.

In all seriousness congratulations to young guns Danny Isles and Brian Shook on unseating Clark and Rambo for angler of the year. Well done guys, really solid year. 

After ploughing through about 40 Spots on different...spots

Bass Champs prefish on Rayburn day 1. Spent most of the day deep

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