2008 Spring Classic on Lake Greenwood-April 12

 

Brad and I fished this tournament, AKA the SC Highway Patrol Tournament, AKA the Trooper Tournament. Anyway, we were lucky number 13 to blast off and had already decided we were going to start fishing that morning in the Adam's Cove area.

Started on the point leading to the back of the first cut and immediately had what appeared to be a smaller fish blow up on a buzzbait but missed.

About half way back into the cut, Brad missed a small one pound fish on a pink floating worm and I lost one roughly a pound and a half on a methiolate floating worm.

As we approached the back third of the cut I tossed my worm over beside a brushpile and caught the first keeper of the day weighing a little over three pounds.

From there it got fast and furious for the next thirty minutes or so and I lost track of exactly how many fish we caught but we did have three fish in the livewell weighing three to four pounds a piece and two more two and a half pounds each.

From there, we quickly moved to the middle of the cut adjacent this the one we had just fished and Brad immediately caught another three and a half pounder.

A few minutes later Brad cast up beside an irrigation pipe running beside a pier and had a big fish swirl at his worm but missed it, I immediately cast my worm over to the same spot and she grabbed it. I set the hook and had her coming to the boat when she pulled off, at this point Brad pitched a Spot Remover Jig to the same area and caught our fifth keeper over three pounds.

Whether this was the same fish or not I don't know but it was nice to have over eighteen pounds in the boat at 8:15.

The rest of the day we caught ten to twelve more keepers but none were big enough to cull what we already had.

Of coarse it was Saturday so like many of the weekends prior to this one we got to endure the rain once again. The temperature was in the mid to high 60's first thing in the morning and cooled of a few degrees during the day.

We finished fourth with 18.15 pounds.