April 19-John de la Howe Open Tournament

 

Fished this tournament on Clarks Hill Lake with one of my customers, Mike Shipes. We spent the first hour of the morning looking for a topwater bite that was nowhere to be found.

The first cast I made pitching a 4" Watermelon Seed worm around isolated brush I caught a small keeper just over 12". From there it was on.

We caught between 30 and 40 fish during the coarse of the day but none of any size. We moved to several different locations and tried several different lures to entice a bigger bite but could not find it.

We wound up with 10 and a half pounds. It took right at 19 to win and over seventeen to place in the money so obviously some found the big ones.