We prefished on Saturday. It was a good thing that we did because if we didn't, we would have spend to much time in unproductive water on tourny day. We started off in the dry creek area and only caught one fish on a jig, Russ caught the fish and I missed one shortly after.Other than that the dry creek area sucked. So we hit the main lake and it sucked too.

At the end of the day we hit the warm springs area and found what we where looking for, BASS. So come Sunday morning we blasted off in the second flight, boat # 30. There was 58 teams I think and my goal was to be in the top 10. Russ nailed our first fish cranking within minutes. It was around 2.5. Then we both caught fish write and left. I also nailed my first Smallie at Sonoma, ya hoo. We culled that fish quickly with a 3 pound large mouth.

We are having a great day with a limit by I think 9 am or so. We culled a few times through out the day. Most boats we talked to had small limits or only a few fish. We're getting jacked as we feel we have a good chance at hitting the top 10. We ran into Benno and Todd during the last hour of the day and all of a sudden Russ has his rod bent over and he was requesting a net. BINGO, 4.93 POUNDER WAS HIS NAMEO. We cull again and rounded off the limit at 14.63 for five Sonoma fish.

All in all we placed #10, yea baby, $$$ We reached our goal. We worked on each others strong points and it payed off. Once again, prefishing was the key to us doing as well as we did. We caught fish on every thing almost, cranking, pithching jigs, splitshoting, ripping, drop shoting and blades. The weather was great and the water was a warm 59 + in most areas. I wonder what would have happened it I was in a round tube ? :+

Rich

Fish fear round tubers and Bass Tech kickboats!!
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You guys rocked!

Man, wish we could have had a little more pre-fishing time up there. I didn't get a chance but Benno tried to do the homework for us but had battery problems on Saturday so never got a chance to get to Warm Springs :(

We basically sucked butt and stunk up the place. We did go to Yorty, Brush and Cherry and fishing was TOUGH! Not only that but we had some serious bad luck with our timing (Watched William pull a couple beauties out / had kayakers stage in our fishing holes...twice x( ) and in addition having our trolling motor prop fall off!!! That killed a bit of time.

We only managed two small keepers and watched Russ pull out his beauty! Also lost a good fish when it ran towards me x(

Oh, well, gotta take all the good with the bad! SCBBBC better watch out as I'm gonna pound them at Highland!

Todd

Be careful what you say about kayakers...

the godfather

Congrats, Rich & Russ! You guys did a terrific job out there. We ran in the AM to an area where Deren stuck a bunch of quality fish the previous Sunday, but nada, & it was a struggle all day. Couldn't get on a pattern, none of our good spots were producing, & none of our usual techniques were working. Good to see some homies having a solid day out there. The only plus was my best yet Sonoma fish of 4.86 lbs on a crank, caught at about 1 PM. We thought we might have stumbled into a good pattern, but it wasn't our day. We'll try it again in April.

Good job guy's :)

Sorry Gordon, I usually say that about boaters first! :+

Way to go you guys,

It's never easy when the competition is tough and its even tougher when the fishing is tough. Seems like prefishing the day before the tournament paid off. Congrates! Russ & Rich

Also congrates to Andy & Deren and Todd & Benno for representing the club as members. I hope to see you all at Highlands.

William - SCBBBC