Well Now that I am all warm and cozy in front of my computer (more like slowly getting the feeling back in my body)
I figure just I would give you a little Recap on our experiences the past few days on the river.
Well after not fininsing so well in the Freeze your butt on Sat we decided to head back out on Sunday to get busy and find some fish. and boy did we ever. incase some of you forgot 
Sunday was clear skies sunny and 50 degrees a buetiful day on the river and a very busy one at that. so with all the boat traffic My partner Todd and I decided to head down river to lose some of the boat traffic and do some casting to look for some good weight.
well on our way down we decided to make a drift thru Baypoint, with Super Doos to see if we could get a few saugers. we ended up catching 7 fish in one drift using a 1/4 oz jig and a Silver Minnow Super doo with the biggest Suager going 17″. so after our drift was done we kept on going down river and hitting many rip rap shorelines with no Success so we decided to leave the rip rap and go fish the sand. we ended up hitting many sand flat areas with a few fish to show for our efforts but they were still not the ones we desired so we kept on searching. and Finally we got to one of our favorite slack areas and kept on casting well within 5 minutes my partner hooked in to a nice 23″ walleye in about 16ft of water so we kept working the area and thank god we did we ended up with 12 walleyes between 18-27.5″ off this spot in a short period of time all of our fish came one Chartruese Pepper ringworms and Chartruese Bucktails with the execption of the biggest one weighing in at 7.6lbs that one came on a FireTiger Ringin Grub.
so after having a blast with those fish we decided to move on and hopefully find a few more spots so we stuck around the same area with the same presentations and caught a few more fish but nothing close to what we had earlier.
Well with the Busy Construction season rolling around on us my partner and I figured we had no time to prefish the rest of the week so we were once again hoping the bite would stay.
Saturday TOURNEY DAY
well agian unlike Sunday we pulled up to the ramp and it was 8 degrees and the wind a blowing and 23 boat registerd to fish and give it a try. so due to our past Prefishing we decided to head back down river and hope those big fish were still in the area.
well when we got down to our area we only had three boats to compete with so we all had our own little spots and presentations well after about 3hrs of working our spot we still had nothing in the box but we did see a few fish being caught near by so we decided to switch presentations and go with what was working. well we tryed and tryed but still could not come up with anything and it was getting pretty frustrating watching these guys catch fish in front of us and we could not get anything to bite but then finally around noon I set the hook and feel a decent fish but before I know it the line snaps 
and now with the wind cold and how frustrated we were we didn’t know what to do but we decided to keep on sticking it out we knew there were nice fish in the area we just had to get them to bite. and yet agian I look up and see the boat infront of my set the hook but all of sudden somthing doesn’t look right I see that he caught some fishing line and then I see his partner grab the line and start to pull it in.(one thinks no big deal hes just getting the junk out of the water) Wrong he brings it in and it has a fish on the end of it. and I go no more than 10ft and he turns around and asked it that was my red line. I said yes well he said you had a good 2lb fish on the end of it. 
well at that time I looked at my partner and sayed we need to do something else we have watched these boats catch some nice fish heck there even catching our fish. but we need to do something we atleast need to get a fish to get some points. so we left and headed to the dam. to drag jigs 5 min in to that todd ended up getting us a 2.5lb walleye and several other short fish so we got our fish for our points at this point we were darn happy to put a fish in the boat. actually we were so happy when I took the fish to put it in the live well I opened the door and threw it in (so I thought) well a little while longer goes by and I tell todd to make sure the water is pumping so he looks and says yes the water level is good but where the heck is the fish? Well here I was so tickled pink to get a fish in the boat we open up the Battery compartment and here is the 20″ walleye laying on top of the batteries
and after we got that fish were it belonged in was time to go weigh in agian with one fish to show for our efforts. But let me tell you after this kind of day you are darn proud of that fish.
and at the weigh in we were anxious to see how those other 3 boats that we started the day with ended up. and well it was just one of those things we were in the right place but couldn’t get the bites those three boats ended up 1st-3rd with some impressive weights way to go guys you guys pulled some nice fish out of some bad conditions.
In conclusion:
well the one fish ended up giving us 20th place at 2.5lbs
again not one of our better tourneys and a very frustrating one but alot of fun and very educational to say the least. but most of all I just want to say a big thank you to my partner Todd Peterson for sticking with me no matter what the conditions are this guy is a true fisherman no matter how cold or what he will always be there with a smile on his face.
Well I see we got plenty of time to do some homework and some serious prefishing before our next tourney (APRIL 2 and 3rd WWA) and hopefully I have a better report for you guys then.
until the next tourney keep a line wet for me.
Thanks for the report. I was freezing up on shore at the weigh in so I can imagine how frozen the guys who fished the tourney were. Jon J. will have some pics to post that I took with his camera too when he gets a chance
but when I changed to my dragging hook, we never lost another fish. That is the way it goes sometimes! Ben had a blast. He loved the “Guy” talk afterwards. I had to tell him to forget what he heard, or at least not repeat it to anyone!