07-26-2010, 09:00 AM
Saturday - July 24, 2010 - Day 177 - 29 days missed<br /><br />Spalding County Sportsman Club tournament<br />Lake Sinclair - 6 PM to 2 AM<br />Water 96 degrees, air in 90s, no breeze, sunny until sundown and HOT<br /><br />Started on hump where I hooked two in last tournament but nothing there - even on depthfinder. After an hour started fishing docks in shady coves - sun was still hot even at 7 PM.<br /><br />For sites that pull these posts but eliminate sig line,I do a fishing site at http://fishing.about.com<br /><br />At 8 while fishing a dock I saw brush on my depthfinder and threw a Texas rigged Mag 2 worm in Redbug to it and got a peck, and landed a bare 12 inch keeper. One in the livewell at 8:15. <br /><br />I noticed a green and blue glow under the dock and a guy came walking out - figured he was going to turn his lights off. Instead we started talking - he makes and markets Hydro Glow Fishing Lights. He said there would be lots of bass around the dock in about two hours and he had caught a 7 pounder there two nights ago. He told me to fish it wish worms and crankbaits. Shad were already circling the light as soon as the sun went down.<br /><br />He walked off and a few mintues later I caught my second keeper on a jig head worm. Two at 9:00 PM. At about 9:30 he came back and we could see a couple of bass in the light - I threw a #5 Shadrap and caught a solid keeper. It had swallowed the crankbait. Three at 9:40. He left and I called my wife - while talking I got a hit on a jig head, put the phone down and landed my fourth keeper at 10:00 PM<br /><br />Picked the phone up and told her I was going to stay there the rest of the night. At 11 I was wondering if I chose right. Then, at 11:20 I got another small keeper on the jig head - a limit but two were small.<br /><br />At midnight I got a hit on the jig head worm and landed one that culled the first one I caught.<br /><br />I tried two more docks - about 100 yards on either side of the one with the Hydro Glow light. One had a bright street light hanging over the water and I caught a bluegill on the Shadrap. There were no shad around it. The other light had brush under it and it was very dim and right on the water. No hits there and no shad, either.<br /><br />At 1:30 I left and threw a spinnerbait on some riprap on the way to the weigh-in but no hits.<br /><br />At weigh-in Kwong had three fish - but one was a 7.17 pounder. His 9,91 pounds won. My five weighed 7.28 and was second. Third went to Brent - the only other limit - with 6.37.. Fourth was two bass weighing 2.29. Very tough night 7 out of 15 fishermen zeroed.<br /><br />If I had a dock or tied up and fished at night, I would have one of those lights!<br /><br />