I fish the lake often, as I live across a county highway, from
the lake. During the first two days of the tournament,
I kept an eye on where the pros where fishing, and
where they were not. They are not on the better smallies.
I talked to a guy last night, that watched pros fish past
his place all day, and he walked down to his dock, and
promptly caught a 22″ smallmouth. The main basin
smallies are not even being touched. Which surprises
me since these guys fish places like Erie, and Ontario.
They should be fishing edges of the main basin, and
spending time getting in sync with the pods of 4 to 5 lb
smallies that hunt there. It looks like in this tournament
they only needed 2 good bites a day, of this class of
fish, and they would be fishing the hole course on
Little Lake Wissota, in the final 12.
When I heard all of the whining, I thought, “Shut up
and fish”. But I do agree that there were better choices,
to showcase bass fishing in Wisconsin.
By the way Brad, there were a couple of nice bags, in
that club tournament, this year on Wissota. Regretably,
I was not able to fish it. And regretably, I won’t be at
Long Lake this Sunday, either. I guess after two years
of First Place finishs there, I will have to give up the title
without a fight(grin). As soon as this house building madness
ends, I WILL BE BACK. It looks like I will be through this
mess by mid August.
Big Bass Bane