So we had our second tournament today, and boy do I suck! It was pretty much a repeat of the first tournament, up too late the night before, up too early for the tournament, rain, cold and wind. It was actually colder this time around, and I wasn't prepared for it as well. The main thing I forgot was my hat, which I dearly missed all day long. The night before my friends chop burned to the ground, including a lifetime supply of fishing baits, all of his tackle, his boat, tools, everything you would normally keep in a shop. The weird thing is that when his shop started to burn, he called me to say we couldn't go fishing tomorrow....Thoughtful, yes, but I would have been freaking out, not calling folks and telling them I'm not going fishing!

So I fished with Jerry today, and he makes the first cast, and immediately yells for the net, a jerkbait. I get his fish, make my cast, with my gold Yo-Zuri style trap, and I'm yelling for the net as well. Oh boy....double header on the first cast. It pretty much went like this for the rest of the day, we probably boated 60-70 fish total, the problem is that while he WON...I only caught ONE fish that was above 14", just ONE! You would think that odds would have been in my favor today, but no such luck for me. Either way, I haven't had a numbers day in a while, and despite the cold, rain, and losing, it was fun! For the record, I couldn't get them to bite any sort of crank, but they were liking the trap, spinnerbait and curly tail worms.