I headed up to pool 10 for my clubs yearly trip this past weekend. We hit the water about 1:20pm on Thursday. We stop at one spot that always looks good with high water. about the 3rd cast my partner landed a 3 pound smallie. I was thinking to myself thats not a good start we might be jinxed now 
Friday we found a crazy patern but it produced fish everyplace that looked the same. We pulled off our best spots after a couple fish. About 1pm we found another spot that fit our pattern. On the 1st cast we had a 3 pound smallie. After that we started getting small fish. So I told my partner we were just going to fish untill we got another keeper then we would take off. We caught 40 fish in the next 20 min. A mix of smallies largmouths whitebass and pike. Finally I hook up on a 3 pound largmouth. We headed in to the hotel after that 
Sat morning we are waiting to blast off and of course the fog rolls in. We are sent off and we quickly changed our mind on what spot we were going to fish first. pulled into our new first spot and my partner lost a keeper at the boat, it jumped the net and came unhooked on the way over 
My 2nd cast produced a 17″ fish and we got one more keeper before we could hear the BFL boat taking off. So we decided to head to our real first spot. We fight waves and fog and other boats all the way there. Pulled up and start catching fish right away but all shorts. Finally my partner gets a keeper and then the whitebass moved in. We take off to spot #3 it looks better then the day before when we found it. We fished 10 min and had filled out or limit and culled once. I talk my partner into moving off before we burned our spot we might need tomorrow. We spent the rest of the day checking new water and upgrading little amounts at a time. Finally its weigh in time and we head in. We ended the day in 3rd place with 12 pounds. We were 1 pound behind 2nd and 2 pounds behind 1st.
Sunday we wake up to no fog 
We blast off and head to our new 1st spot (was spot 3 on day one). We go half way down and not one bite. Finally my partner go a nice keeper. We work the rest of the way down with no luck. We are starting to worry we are to early or they moved on us. We turn the boat around and that turned on a light switch. We filled out our limit and upgraded 5 times in the next 20 min. We pulled a giant fish out of that spot but did not take to much time to weigh it or messure her. For the next 2 hours we sit and beat up the spot and made a few smaller upgrades. Then decided to go to our other spot. We pull up and only get one short fish. We work around and I just happend to see fish busting and we go over to them. I point out to my partner were to cast (he did not see them) his first cast produced a 17″ my first was a 14″ then another 17″. We sat in one spot and caught a fish on every other cast untill they got so small they could not get the bait anymore. About that time we see fish busting about 25 yards away and get on them. It was a school of 15-17″ fish. They were in about 8″ of water and would hit anything close to them. We caught a 14 pound limit off on grass clump that was about the same size as the front deck on our boat. We fished them untill they got really small and headed back to the weigh in. We weighed in a giant limit at 16 lbs 7.5 ounces. Our big fish was 19.5″ and weighed in at 5 pounds 5 ounces.
The great 2nd day put us right were we needed to be. But it was not enough, we lost by 1 ounce 
To our credit we had the weight to win but on day one our fish caughed up 7 whole crawdads the biggest being 4″ long. The 2nd day we had one of our fish spit up a 4.5″ long bluegill. We did kind of shoot ourselfs in the foot too because my partner forgot his balance beam and his scale was not working. It was a good lesson learned for him 
In the 3 and a half days we caught well over 300 fish. That is the best weekend I have ever had on pool 10. Just wish I had this weekend off so I could fish the country on the river tournament.
August 3, 2011 at 1:23 pm
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