Last night was event number three for the FAB Tour season. John Haynes and I had prefished last week for a few hours and felt we had a pretty good plan in place to go out and catch a decent bag. We were looking for 12-14 pounds to win the three hour tournament.

As the second boat out, we drove straight to weed flat adjacent to deep water that had produced for us in practice. The weeds were sparse in most places but had a few thick clumps scattered along the edge before it dropped into deeper water. The thicker clumps were our targets and they paid off immediately with five fish in nine or ten casts alowing us to start culling within a half hour of take off. The biggest fish came off a 6" ring worm rigged on a light jig head. John started out throwing a texas rigged creature bait but eventually switched to a flick shake worm. The slower fall seemed to make a difference. 

After the bite slowed on the weed clumps, we moved up into some reeds which often produce on clearwater. Nothing was going on there so we made a move to some slop that we had planed to finish the night on and hopefully upgrade by throwing a frog and some bigger senkos. The frog bite wasnt as good as it was in practice. John had two blow ups but wasnt able to get the hook in either fish. I threw a Tiki Bamboo stick into the holes around the edges and was able to upgrade a couple of our 15" fish with 16" fish.  Not as good of upgrades as we had hoped for but at least the water produced for us.

We ended up bringing 10.92 to the scale. Landing us in second place and earning us a check of $114. A bag of 12.88 took first place. Our big fish weighed in at 2.9 pounds. Just a little shy of the 3.3 fish that took the big bass pot.

It was a good night on the water. Next week is North South Center. We hope to prefish this weekend and do well again out there. Make sure you check back to see how we do.