Good Night On Platte

17.75" Repo Man

16.33" Repo Man

18" Outkast Swim Jig/Deuce

18" Outkast/Mogambo

17.75" Outkast/Mogambo

 

3:30-7:10PM Jenny's to West Point, South & North Reeds Across, F Flat, SPSI

63-68℉, PC, 1-7mph ESE SSE

53-56℉ Low falling

I decided to start off of Jenny's reeds and work to West Point. First thing I got was a pike along the reed edge on the Outkast/Mogambo. Then I got 14-inch bass out from the rice edge on the Jackhammer. I got a 14-incher on the Jackhammer off of West Point then missed two bites. I threw back with the Outkast/Mogambo and caught two 3lbers. I went to South Reeds Across and had the Mogambo get bit off. I replaced it with a Havoc Deuce twin tail grub. I immediatly got another 3lber at the reed edge. I also got 16" incher off of the reed edge.  I missed a cuple of bites in the South Reed bed and got a pike. I got a 13-incher off of the South edge of the North bed. I next went and worked F Flat getting 15.25" on the Rat Ta Tat Plopper and I got 3 bass (17.7, 16.33,13) and lost a good one on the bone Repo Man. I made a last minunte hail mary run to the South Point of the Small Island. I Had a good fish jump over the Repo Man and boil on it on the next cast. It got dark and the fish stopped biting. 

Another Windy Night

3.72lbs Outkast Swim Jig Mogambo Grub

 

3:45-7:30PM Access Across, Green Cabin, NPBI, F Flat

63-67℉, Sunny, 3-20mph WNW

51-53℉ Water Low and falling

I headed to Access Across Cane. I thought the wind was more out of the North coming across, but it was WNW and really blowing. I worked my way through the rice with the Outkast Swim JIg and the Sparrow. Didn't get a bite. I then started working on the edge of the openings and missed the first bite. I eventually caught a 16-incher and lost a similar sized fish on the outside edge. I was headed to Big Rice when I got a bite on the Northland Spin, but the fish buried me in the weeds and got off. I didn't get a bite on outer 6lb Flat, so I headed to Green Cabin where I could get out of the wind.  I missed my first bite there but then got a 15.5" and 18-incher after I switched to a green pumpkin Outkast Swim Jig. I got a couple of pike. I didn't get a bite at Chuck's Point. I got one 14-incher at NPBI and one at F Flat on the Jackhammer. 

Cedar Lake Sucks 2020 Snatchers Tournament Edition

 

If I never see Cedar Lake again it will be too soon. We started out with a slow-motion start in heavy fog that was lifting by the time we arrived at our starting spot in Sunrise Bay. The fish were inactive.  So we started covering water. I got a couple pike. I think Nate connected with his first fish around 10:30AM in some pads on a swim jig with a Kalin's Mogambo Grub, He missed a bite and then caught one off a dock. We then tried the North end of Sunrise and he missed a couple there. We briefly tried the Slop Hole. That wasn't happening so we quickly left. Just outside of the Slop Hole Nate got a nice keeper and had a couple other good ones boil on his jig. He gave me a Mombo and I got my keeper that was 12.25". We then left Sunrise and worked in the mid-section of the Lake. We were fishing pads with reeds and about to leave when Nate caught a good fish. That bite clued us into a pattern, but we couldn't land out bites and I got a pike.  I did lose a small keeper that hung me up on the pads. We went back to the place in Sunrise where Nate had the boils. I had a feeling one of us was going to get smoked and it was me first. I got too excited and jerked the jig out of the fishes mouth. Nate caught his limit shortly after that. We went back to our starting spot and didn't get anything. Then we went and worked the area across from where I missed the blow-up. I missed a blow-up in the reeds there as well. We went back to where Nate got his first fish and I got a pike. We spent the last 15-minutes by the access. Nate got his biggest fish of the day there and I got another pike. Fricken Cedar Lake.

Results: My fish weighed 1lb and put me in 12th Place. Nate won the tournament with 16/3. Tim Benson caught the 3/12 Lunker and Placed 3rd making him the 2020 Bass Snatcher Mr. Bass. Theo won the final Co-Angler Challenge of the Year out of Tim's boat.

My Thoughts: It was a tough bite and even if I had caught that other bass I had on I don't think it would have moved me up any. Who knows if my other bites were even bass or not. I finished in the Club Super 6, so I do get Wood for this year. I set new personal bests for Total Points, One Out Points, and Average place of finish. I wasn't because I fished that great, I didn't. We just didn't have our full complement of guys this year.