I had fished the second tournament of the California Federation delta circuit. Prior to the tournament, we had a week long of warm weather that peaked in the high 80’s. On tournament day it was in the mid 40’s prior to launching and we had 15-25 mph winds. Toward the end of the day we had temperatures in the high 50’s and we had high winds through out the entire day.
I had prefished 2 days prior to the tournament and had developed a simple plan for tournament. The plan was to fish a specific area that had clear and warmer water. I started out the morning fishing an entire strip of bank with a buzzbait and got nothing to strike the lure. Then I had noticed the opposite bank had white caps crashing on the banks. So I had crossed the slough and threw a blue gill pattern chatterbait. I got a bite after the 3rd cast and I had reeled in a 5lb fish. I continued to fish the entire bank and caught a limit within 2 hours. The easy part was done, the hard task was trying to cull out 2 small fish. At this point, I had 3 solid fish and 2 small fish that weighed 1 to 1.5lb each. The tide had bottomed out and the bite had turned off after 11am. 15 minutes before weighing in, I had caught my 4th solid fish and culled one of the small fish.
I had weighed in a 5 fish limit for 19.65 lbs with a 5.60 big fish. I was in the first flight and my weight looked pretty good in comparison to the field. Then the second flight came in and the bags looked pretty big. I had placed 4th for the tournament. The tournament was won with a 37lb bag with a 11lb big fish.
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