Had a good day but got my heart broke. It was foggy bad - we made it to the
cove I wanted to start in - where Fritz and I got four Wednesday morning - not
a bite. Since it was so foggy I just worked around that big point and into the
next cove - got a keeper spot in the back of it as 9. That fish guarenteed me
first for the year in the Sportsman Club.

Fog lifted soon after 9 so I ran up to the second place I wanted to fish. There
is a rocky point at the mouth of a small creek, Fritz you got a keeper spot
right on the bank to the right of it. For some reason I decided to go into the
cove to the left - at the second point in the cove I caught a 4 pound
largemouth and a 3 pounder on consecutive casts. Both were on a brush pile in
front of a dock. Went around that point and got three largemouth on a rockpile
off the bank. All those fish hit the outfit Fritz had been using - a Fat Free
Shad - I just started throwing it, didn't even retie! So I was culling by
10:15.

We stayed in that cove and I got another keeper spot on a jig and pig and
another one on a crankbait and my partner caught one keeper spot.

We ran up to the "Broke Arm" point - a main lake point with rocks and blowdowns
- and fished around it - nothing. But past the last dock leading into a small
creek my partner got a keeper largemouth. Time was running out so we went back
down to another main lake rocky point - my partner got two keepers and I got a
keeper spot there. Two of the three hit on a boat ramp just inside the cove.

I ended up with five weighing 11.62 for second place. Partner had 4 weighing
5.6 for sixth out of 26 people. I culled four - caught four spots on a jig and
pig after not getting bit all week on it. I threw it a lot after getting my
limit, trying to get bigger fish.

I had big fish for the year in Flint River Club with a 5.3 pounder from Eufaula
last March. Pot was up to $1100 and I would have won it but Kwong Yu caught
one weighing 6.12 Sunday - won both clubs pots - over $2300 on that one fish!
He also won the tournament with five at 13.4 pounds. He finished second to me
in the Sportsman Club for the year. He or I have been first in that club each
year for the past six - I have four win to his two, but he is tough to beat!

Pretty good day - and practice with Fritz helped, although I never caught a
fish anywhere we caught one. We had six five fish limits today but a good many
people only had one or two bass.

Hey Chief - call or email me for details. I will be glad to go to Jackson one
day this week and show you where we caught fish. Let me know.
Ronnie

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