Seriously, A Bass Champs Curse

Posted by ken on March 12, 2015

Not sure what it means when you are excited to draw boat number 203 which is a 100 boat improvement over the last one you fished. But in this case we were actually happy to take the late draw as once again the prior night dipped into the 20's. But once again we did not catch them. My partner Dicky Newberry had stuck the fish to win the BFL the prior weekend but had some bad luck in trying to put them in the livewell, so we went back to fish for those fish. We caught a lot of fish, probably 15-18 keepers and although they weighed 16+ on our scales BC's weighed them at under 14. But even though we did not catch weight, and 2nd and 4th place were caught within shouting distance of us, I feel like we made good decisions all day. The fished, or at least the larger females backed about 300 yards back out from the last grass in the drains to the first grass in the drains. We got fooled because of the number of bites we got and the fact that we did have 2 solid 4+ lb fish on mid-morning. We kept thinking that the 4+'s would replace the 2+'s we were catching as the day warmed but it never happened. Would I like to do the day over again knowing what I know now, absolutely. Do I question any of the decisions we made that day, no, we made good decisions, which along with good execution is all you can ask for. Even out lost fish where not execution mistakes, they just came unbuttoned which will happen with trap fish (in this case Midasu fish). Lesson of the day, sometimes you do have to leave fish to find fish.