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March tournament
Sunday - March 20, 2011 - day 16
Spalding County Sportsman Club Tournament Lake Oconee - March 20, 2011 cloudy windy cool day, water temps 64 to 65 Two weeks ago I fished Oconee with my other club and got one keeper and two throwbacks all day. Today I headed to my favorite point when I released the boats. Tournament director gets to go last, and another boat in my club beat me to it. I went across the creek to my second place, a line of docks. After a couple of casts with a spinner bait I asked my partner what the water temp was - could not see the gauge from the front. When he said 64 I picked up a topwater popper. Second cast a bass exploded on it in front of a dock. Nice bass, I figured 5 pounds. It jumped twice and my heart almost stopped, the plug was in the corner of its mouth, looked like it was not hooked good. It made two runs under the boat pulling drag but I managed to get it to the net. Both trebles were in the corner of its mouth, it was hooked better than I thought. One in the live well at 7:45 and it was a good one. I threw the popper for an hour without another bite then used crankbaits and spinner baits with no bites. Started catching a few short fish under the 14 inch size limit on a Baby Brush Hog Texas rigged, most very shallow. At about 10:00 I saw a stump in about two feet of water and pitched the Brush Hog to it. Got a thump and set the hook on a bare 14 inch keeper. Two in the live well. At noon we had caught several more short fish but no keepers. Worked back into a small creek and my partner got two keepers off a small secondary point on a Brush Hog. We had been talking about moving but were catching a lot of bass and those two keepers made us stay. About 100 yards further down the bank I got a throwback and a little further my partner got a keeper. Had me three to two - a little worried, but my big fish made up for a lot. We had been talking about moving again but I turned to go back over the area where he had caught the keeper. His catching the keeper made me want to try it again. My reel started messing up, would not engage easily, so I picked up another rod to tie the Brush Hog on. It had a jig head on it so I decided to rig a Brush Hog on it. Saw some lizards first and threaded one on. Next two casts I got a 4 pounder and a 3 pounder! We turned and worked down the bank and past where he had caught the keeper he got another one. Went back over the good area and caught some throwbacks but no more keepers. Worked further down the bank the other way past where he caught the last one and my partner got another good keeper, that filled his limit. Had me five to four now! Not much further I got another solid 2 pound keeper to fill my limit. Then got another one to cull the little one I had. We fished to where the bank flattened out and my partner got a 3 ponder to cull. Fishing back a little ways he got his seventh keeper to cull another one of his smaller fish. With about an hour left we worked all the way back around the good area where we had caught fish and caught short fish but no more keepers. Figured we had been following a school of good 2 to 3 pound fish that were following shad. At weigh in I had 16.38 for first and the first fish I caught was big fish at 4.96. Second was 12.10 and my partner was third with 12.01. Fourth was 10.82. The guys that beat me to the point were 2nd and 4th. I thanked them for beating me there and making me catch the big one. They got a couple of keepers off that point. One of my better club weigh-ins. We had 22 fishermen, 7 limits and five bass over 4 pounds each. Oconee has been producing some good bass - two weeks ago it took 14.5 to win and there were six over four pounds each. Glad I found some fish this time. Good day, we had 13 keepers and about 20 short fish. Lots of fun. Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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Sounds to me like you're maintaining that winning tradition Ronnie! Good
job!! -- Steve Huber Executive Producer/Editor in Chief OutdoorFrontiers Multi-Media LLC http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com "Ronnie" wrote in message ... Sunday - March 20, 2011 - day 16 Spalding County Sportsman Club Tournament Lake Oconee - March 20, 2011 cloudy windy cool day, water temps 64 to 65 Two weeks ago I fished Oconee with my other club and got one keeper and two throwbacks all day. Today I headed to my favorite point when I released the boats. Tournament director gets to go last, and another boat in my club beat me to it. I went across the creek to my second place, a line of docks. After a couple of casts with a spinner bait I asked my partner what the water temp was - could not see the gauge from the front. When he said 64 I picked up a topwater popper. Second cast a bass exploded on it in front of a dock. Nice bass, I figured 5 pounds. It jumped twice and my heart almost stopped, the plug was in the corner of its mouth, looked like it was not hooked good. It made two runs under the boat pulling drag but I managed to get it to the net. Both trebles were in the corner of its mouth, it was hooked better than I thought. One in the live well at 7:45 and it was a good one. I threw the popper for an hour without another bite then used crankbaits and spinner baits with no bites. Started catching a few short fish under the 14 inch size limit on a Baby Brush Hog Texas rigged, most very shallow. At about 10:00 I saw a stump in about two feet of water and pitched the Brush Hog to it. Got a thump and set the hook on a bare 14 inch keeper. Two in the live well. At noon we had caught several more short fish but no keepers. Worked back into a small creek and my partner got two keepers off a small secondary point on a Brush Hog. We had been talking about moving but were catching a lot of bass and those two keepers made us stay. About 100 yards further down the bank I got a throwback and a little further my partner got a keeper. Had me three to two - a little worried, but my big fish made up for a lot. We had been talking about moving again but I turned to go back over the area where he had caught the keeper. His catching the keeper made me want to try it again. My reel started messing up, would not engage easily, so I picked up another rod to tie the Brush Hog on. It had a jig head on it so I decided to rig a Brush Hog on it. Saw some lizards first and threaded one on. Next two casts I got a 4 pounder and a 3 pounder! We turned and worked down the bank and past where he had caught the keeper he got another one. Went back over the good area and caught some throwbacks but no more keepers. Worked further down the bank the other way past where he caught the last one and my partner got another good keeper, that filled his limit. Had me five to four now! Not much further I got another solid 2 pound keeper to fill my limit. Then got another one to cull the little one I had. We fished to where the bank flattened out and my partner got a 3 ponder to cull. Fishing back a little ways he got his seventh keeper to cull another one of his smaller fish. With about an hour left we worked all the way back around the good area where we had caught fish and caught short fish but no more keepers. Figured we had been following a school of good 2 to 3 pound fish that were following shad. At weigh in I had 16.38 for first and the first fish I caught was big fish at 4.96. Second was 12.10 and my partner was third with 12.01. Fourth was 10.82. The guys that beat me to the point were 2nd and 4th. I thanked them for beating me there and making me catch the big one. They got a couple of keepers off that point. One of my better club weigh-ins. We had 22 fishermen, 7 limits and five bass over 4 pounds each. Oconee has been producing some good bass - two weeks ago it took 14.5 to win and there were six over four pounds each. Glad I found some fish this time. Good day, we had 13 keepers and about 20 short fish. Lots of fun. Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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Congrats Ronnie !
One more month and the lakes here should be open. Can't wait. Gary |
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"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers.com" wrote in
: Sounds to me like you're maintaining that winning tradition Ronnie! Good job!! Yea, good job, and remember to never get involved with a $pamer!! |
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On Mar 28, 1:06*pm, Gary Wilber wrote:
Congrats Ronnie ! One more month and the lakes here should be open. *Can't wait. Gary I can't imagine having to wait to go fishing - glad my visits up there are when the water is soft. The bass do bite good there then. Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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On Mar 23, 2:29*pm, "Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers.com" go-
wrote: Sounds to me like you're maintaining that winning tradition Ronnie! *Good job!! -- Steve Huber Executive Producer/Editor in Chief OutdoorFrontiers Multi-Media LLChttp://www.outdoorfrontiers.com Thanks - some days everything just seems to work out. Headed to Hartwell tomorrow for the Federation Top Six - hope I have as good luck as I had there last November. Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:03:25 -0700 (PDT), Ronnie
wrote: Sunday - March 20, 2011 - day 16 Spalding County Sportsman Club Tournament Lake Oconee - March 20, 2011 cloudy windy cool day, water temps 64 to 65 Two weeks ago I fished Oconee with my other club and got one keeper and two throwbacks all day. SNIP Ronnie http://fishing.about.com Ya did better this time! Good job. Always enjoy reading your posts. Dan |
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Ya did better this time! *Good job. *Always enjoy reading your posts. Dan Thanks - this time i was the dog, not the tree! Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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