What a tournament
Two weeks ago we couldn't find a fish at Palestine. In fact I don't think I could have gone to HEB and bought 7 fish; we were that bad. Two weeks later and there the fish were. Most of the fish were caught 3-8 FOW. Lots of males just moving in. Water temps were 56-58. Our best baits were slab bandit in meller yeller, and black shad and crawler in the orange/chart and a hand tied minnow imitation by Heath from Slab Strikr jigs. I'm not sure color made a difference as you can tell from this variety. Six of the top 10 teams were CAT teams and the Crazy Angler teams took 4th, Mark Standridge and Jason Townsend, 6th Max and I, and 7th Roger and Pam Putman.
This was our best day for 7 fish at 15.2 lbs and that's only good enough for 6th place. Our smallest fish in the 7 was 1.96. Big fish was 2.37. We culled 6 fish that weighed 1.87, 3 that weighed 1.94 and 1 went 1.96. But we're not disappointed at all, great day on the water. We caught over 50 fish and most were over 1.40.
Congrats to all the CAT teams. And to Lane and Rob for one great day. I talked to Lane the night before and he was afraid the fish he had found a week before had left. Didn't take him long to make a short move and he had 'em dialed in.