SWBA tourney partner John Strenk and I opted to stay close to the harbor while most folks ran north and south. I and others have had excellent catches around the area in the past so we decided to concentrate our efforts there. We found tons of bait and bass marks on many spots but very few biters and even fewer hook-ups. We had a very slow start with only one legal sand bass and a short calico but decided to stay for the tide swing which didn't help at all. With little time left, we opted for a mad dash up around the point for some new water. The reward for that was our one and only legal calico at 11:37 AM, about twenty minutes before we had to split to make weigh-in. There are certainly disadvantages to small boat, lack of speed being one of them. It is unfortunate that we spent a lot of time in our first area but as I mentioned, we had a lot of confidence in it. I heard from other folks that both down south and up north had decent to good bites in both the kelp and on shallow rocks. I guess only our area sucked. We even were awarded "team first place outside of the money" with the prize being a Phenix rod. That only lasted a few seconds until they realized that the results were read wrong, lol. We still had a great time with no mishaps and the tourney was well run as ever.

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