06-28-2010, 09:00 AM
Fished the CBA marathon last night and just got to where I could think straight again. Boy...a 12 hour tournament can take a toll on you, I can tell I am not as young as I once was. Me and Colby had a nice evening and night fishing but we never could get on anything big. Tried everything and threw everything at them. Caught only about 20 bass and of those only seven were keepers. We did not fair to well but did end up top in the youth division which gave us a free entry into the next night tournament. emoThumbsup I do not know what place we had but it was on down there. We won a $30.00 gift certificate from FishnFun for our place. emoThumbsup We caught our bass off and on all night. We tried deep and shallow with our two biggest coming out of grass in about 6/7 feet. They both were about 3 lbs. Caught several two pounders to round out our limit. Had right at 12 lbs. with our best five. Caught bass on black worms, black blades, shakeys and cranks. Never caught anything over 15 foot deep. Colby did have a good fish about 7 o&#39;clock this morning and I was standing there with the net. Got it real close to the boat and it looked like it was going to come up so he slowed down the reel and it came off. emoBang He has got to stop loosing the big ones. emoAngel That I think was the only big one that was lost by us.<br /><br />As usual there was a couple guys that found some kickers, 25 something won it and I think there was two other sacks over 20 lbs. Eight places were paid and 16 something got a check. emoWorthy Everyone that fished it left with a prize or check if they stuck around for the places.<br /><br />The officers did a great job and it was a very well run tournament. Most bass today appeared to be alive and well. The three day event that had been down there left a lot of dead ones that were there when we started so do not think that was the CBA weigh in. I put ice, salt and stay alive in my well and our bass were about to jump out of the well when we opened it. No problems for us. emoThumbsup <br /><br />C-ya on the water... emoAngler Jmax