Hey Guys,

I just wanted to put my two cents in from Sundays Tournament. The only other time I've been to Berryessa I got skunked so catching anything was going to make me happy. I stayed in Capell Cove, I threw a crankbait until the sun came up with no love. Once the sun came up I started drop shoting with a paddle tail worm, I got my first fish off a brush pile 13" (we'll talk about him later). I fished the same pile for about 5 minutes and moved on, but came back 30 minutes later and caught a 15", I was feeling real good at this time it was about 11:00am. I wanted to go up the creek alittle and fish the trees that were in the water it paid off another 15" and a 14". 1 hour left, I ran into Scott Beem alittle earlier and he told me where he caught his fish near some run off in 40 feet of water, so I gave it a try. I caught this huge crappie, Phil was around and he said he would take hime so he went into the live well. I worked my way back to weigh in with no more love. 5 bites 5 fish that a good day for me.
I weighed only 3 of my 4 fish due to a willie-go problem, I was taught mouth open and swing the tail, my fish would go. At the scale I was told differently by three club officers that it was mouth closed and before I could say anything my fish was already in the water and one of them was yelling out penality points. I've read the rules many times before this tournment and there has never been anything saying mouth closed, just that it had to be varified with a willie-go. I know I'm still "new" but in the past 1 1/2 years I've been fishing with the club, I've brought in alot of fish that were 13" to scale and they willie-goed them, board up in the air mouth open and swung the tail. Did something change in the club the last couple months, I was not aware about? Other then that it was a good day.

David Brown