A three pound spot must have put up a great little battle! Them area some
fiesty critters. Awesome finish Ronnie.

I've found that spots can be a little more predictable here, but fishing is
fishing... some days you'll find them, some days you wont. Remember, it's
fishing, not catching. Seems you do pretty well anyway, so you really ought
to not worry about it and continue on with what you're doing.


"Ronnie Garrison" wrote in message
...
I had a good tournament yesterday - got a limit of spots weighing 10.8
pounds at
Lake Allatoona. Also got big fish with a 3.65 pound spot. Second place
was five
spots weighing 5.12 pounds - more typical of Allatoona spotted bass.

I fished three tournaments in August - a night club tournament at Lake
Sinclair
where I caught two keepers weighing 1.6 pounds together, a day tournament
at
West Point where I caught one spot weighing 1.1 pounds, and the NWC where
I
fished two days to land one keeper weighing 2.8 pounds.

I wish I could figure out what is the difference. Why is it some
tournaments and
days fishing everything goes right, like you got a horse shoe where the
sun don’t
shine, and other days nothing goes right?

I would like to think it is luck, not skill, because skill should be more
consistent.
Why is it I can do the same thing two days in a row and catch fish one day
and not
the next. Flexibility or lack there of is part of it, probably.

What do you think?

BTW - yesterday was the first time I ever fished out of my boat at
Allatoona - I
have done a few magazine articles there with others but this was my first
tournament
there. I have fished dozens of tournaments and other days at Sinclair and
West
Point, and done more magazine articles on those lakes than Allatoona, too.
Allatoona is often called the Dead Sea because of its bass fishing.

I will post the details of my lucky trip later.

Ronnie

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