big tickets

y'all be safe out there

This, food, and electrolyltes in this kind of weather. I gave it up about 1:30. Just got to hot and cooked out.
Also there is someone I passed; we were both heading southe towards the dam and south of the high line, that has extreme lower unit failure. The boat is either a green and silver or blue and silver skeeter wearing a SHO and I could smell the real strong aroma of gear oil when I got behind you. Major leak somewhere.

The bite was good till about 10am, then it shut off. We caught 9 this morning, just not the right fish, my son caught one 16 1/8” little over 3 pounds, those are tough. He did weigh in 1 just under 2 pounds just to through the experience, I tossed mine back that was the same size, and we caught several slot fish.

11.00 leading, 2.97 under, fish were biting, found a Duck!

11 lb fish on the board,
100 plus degrees.
I’m sleeping in if I caught that fish.

I made it a one day affair, if I based my experience on just the tournament alone, I'd probably not fish it again; first one, but with all the incentives I will be hard pressed not to sign up again next year. The traffic and the heat make it really tough, though the first half yesterday was actually quite comfortable, it's when the sun decided to go full on and the clouds went away. It was some tough fishing due to the traffic but I expected that, the only bites I had came on 10 inch worms. I had basically swim off bites and set the hook only to get about half a worm back.

I couldn't believe the number of big slots (5) and the overall number of slots. Doesn't anyone read the rules? By big I mean 8 LB plus.

did they get tickets? should have

Do they have a side pot for biggest slot brought in ?

I'm sure the game wardens have something going on. Whether it's for size or an Over/Under for the quantity...

Yesterday was good for me on numbers of fish. Caught a dozen or so, 3-4 slots, the rest unders. Just not the right ones, had one that just touched the outside edge of the 16" line. Not even 1/8" this was a heart breaker...

Today I was going to do something different, stayed deep in the morning (2946 bridge), then explored a new area that I hadn't fished before. Pulled a nice under off a tree in about 12 foot - 2.59, probably chose the wrong hour to weigh it in, but ended up in 5th place for the 10 o'clock hour, keeping my streak of getting at least something out of these big-bass events since my oh so close second biggest overall in last year's Skeeter Owners.

Roger that!

Caught a 7, 6, couple 5’s. Got bumped with a 2.13. Found a duck!! Had fun, spent a small fortune in gas for the boat

What'd you get with your duck? I've always wondered how good the prizes were, one year I thought I heard one was a Power-Pole, but that's it. I also always wondered when they put them out there. Did you find it on Saturday or today?

Do they still give away trucks, 4-wheelers, and campers and such? Or just cash for hourly winners? I sure miss fishing this event but not for sure that I could've handled the heat.