LaCrosse on Sunday.

What a weekend…

I had the pleasure of fishing the Team Supreme tournament this past weekend out of Lacrosse. The days were just about perfect…. If you are a golfer. Friday brought us the high pressure that accompanies the rains. Things were bound to be slow going. We fished pool 9 with limited success. The fish we did manage to catch were good ones. Anyway after fishing a solid day and having poor success I decided to spend the day on pool 8. I fished around and stuck a few of the bites we had. Just in practice we could have weighed in about 16lbs. Coincidently the Bass World Sports tourney only took 14 and we were considering fishing this if we were on fish Friday. Anyway, the bite was good enough to put me up on pool 7 by 1:00 pm. We fishing up there for a while and found a school of 2 lbers. So now its 4 and I am armed with fish in more locations than I need so I am hoping to be full of the first spot. We pull into our smallie area guessing we will have 6 fish going between 18 and 20 lbs. Well the fog had set in and I fear the fish must have been sleeping. It was to thick out to run down Goose so we stayed out of the nasty stuff.

Then we run to our number 2 spot with ZERO fish in the boat. This has me a little nervous since these were current fish as well however they were green. On our first pass we stick a couple fish but nothing to keep. I am not sure why the bite was so far off but I am leaning towards the fog. I am not sure if the dark morning vs there normal feeding times had anything to messing this day up but it sure was tough. Me research project for this week is to find out of there are any correlations between the 2 and find alternatives.

So…. Now its 10:00 and we head out to the Lake. After getting to our first spot we see Jimmy Johnson sitting smack dab on it. I am not sure if he had it cleaned out by then or not but he had about 4 hours on it. We stopped anyway and were hoping the school would reappear. They didn’t so we headed to a slop bay since the fig was finally lifting. The slop had a couple biters but still nothing that would go 14. By this time we have missed any part of the good bite and would have to grind them out. We locked back down around noon and many in the lock were only half full. This might sound like a good thing but the competition over here is second to none and I knew we were in trouble.

We headed back down and hit one of my favorite finishing banks and got a few fish in there. We managed a couple but didn’t weigh in at days end. The winning weight was 18lbs however it did take them all day to get there.

Another lesson hath been learned!!!

In recap the lessons I learned are that if your time is limited you need to pick an pool and spend all your time there. 2 days to cover 90 miles of river should not even be an option. I am getting that tattooed on my @ss. I did manage to have fun in light of our failure. I met some great guys and in casual conversation learned differing thought patterns between my peers. Congrats to all who managed a limit.

All I can say is to soak it up because next time I will have on my Game Face. Thanks again Team Supreme.

Jc

Haven’t been on 8 for a couple of days , Have guided for whatever bites on 9 this weekend and today. Lots of Northern again today. 8 0r nine bites in first 1 1/2hours
Unless it was a trophy we were shaking them off by the boat or getting bit off whichever came first,(don’t ask), but we did catch alot of bass today. Yup 9 inchers, 10 inchers, 6 inchers, maybe…maybe two that touched 14 inches. Tubes,traps and spinnerbaits all had the same results … small bass. I have to say hats off too, to anyone that got a nice limit in the last three days.I agree with you , too about narrowing it down a little. I can’t cover a 28 mile long pool in two weeks of prefishing, let alone three in a couple of days. Either way it stinks that your big fish bite went away.

“In recap the lessons I learned are that if your time is limited you need to pick an pool and spend all your time there. 2 days to cover 90 miles of river should not even be an option. I am getting that tattooed on my @ss.”

I will not try to re-invent the wheel, but learn from others shared experiences.
JC-thanks for the info and sorry that the day did not go your way.

Jeremy,

I just want to know who is going to read your tattoo, to
remind you not to bite off such a large chunk of river?
When you drop your drawers, and ask what it says
back there, I am betting that will be the last trip
with that fishing partner

Big Bass Bane

P.S. Since Jimmy Johnson was on your spot, did you hear
how he did? You might have just chosen the wrong spot
to go to first, provided you could beat him there.

I am not sure how he faired. A lot of maybies but one is for sure. It is his back yard. In that light maybe it was his spot I was looking at…. Actually, they were Blue Flecks fish truth be told. He has been on them for a quite a while. Maybe next weekend we will get to show off a couple. Maybe not.
Either way, I will enjoy myself.
jc

I thought it was a tough bite this weekend too. Went out on Pool 10 Saturday with the intention of finding a good slop bite. We couldn’t get anything except a couple of blows and one short fish in the slop. We did fish some wood and although we caught around 5 “keepers”, most fish we caught were short. Seemed there was very little activity on top of the water, especially in the slop fields. Below is one of the fish we caught.

We experienced the same frustration on pool 10 with the slop bite. Very few blow ups and no fish made it to the boat. What keepers we did find came off wood with some current. To be honest, I haven’t had a good day on the slope yet. Don’t really no about anyone else.

From July 4th to july 11 i had some great fishing.Found good fish in curent an grass.I didnt fish last saturday but i did go out sunday an after the day was over i was wishing i just stayed home.Well not really,It still is good just being on the water but a few fish would have made it better.Im gonna try it tomorrow evening and see what happens. Can only get better huh?