Tuesday was the first FAB Tour event for the 2009 season. John Haynes and I made it out to sugar lake in Wright county to try to catch a few fish. My boat spent some time in the shop late last week and that meant no prefishing for this event. I fished sugar lake 4 years ago and remember small fish being the norm and figured 8-10 pounds would probably be pretty good. John fished it last year with Dave Larson but I dont know that they really figured them out.
The wind was howling 10 -20 out of the north but we decided to rough it out and fish the docks that line the southern shore. We were boat number one and were fishing the first dock before the other boats had even blasted off. John pulled a short fish on the first or second cast and I followed a cast later. All the other boats headed to the calm side of the lake so we thought for sure we were on to a good pattern that no one else was fishing. An hour into it we were whacking 11" fish on every dock but only managed two legal fish and neither one was too big. It is the toughest part of tournament fishing to leave fish (even though they were all small) to go find fish but we decided we were going to have to do something. Because we hadn't prefished we were flying blind so we bounced around a few spots trying deeper out and a nice rock point with scatter reeds on it. The water looked great but only produced more small fish. With 20 minutes left we moved back to the south end of the lake where we had left a couple docks and small reed patch close to the ramp. John pulled a 1.75 pound fish on a Jig off the reeds. It is funny how large a fish like that looks after catching 20 or 30 11 inch fish. We thought we had caught our kicker. I managed a 13 incher on a texas rigged worm a couple casts later with 4 minutes to go and rounded out our 5 fish limit. 
Six and a half pounds of monsters put us in the middle of the pack. 11+ pounds won the night and set a new lake record for FAB. The winning sack was caught up shallow but I couldn't get any other information out of the winning team.
If you are looking for a place to catch a record size bass I wouldn't spend any time on Sugar lake but if you want to catch a limit of feeder fish for the family this may be a great place to try.