Sorry for the late report. Nico and I fished the Nor-cal bass team tournament Pedro on 4/24. I guess there was another derby at McClure that we didn't know about so it really hurt the draw for the event. There were 9 teams or so? We started out with reaction and Nico caught a 2lb smallmouth. Overall the morning was slow. As the sun came up I caught a 2lb muley on a darthead and two 12 and 7/8" fish, then a 2lb spot on a spinnerbait. There was 15' visibility and bright sun and this fish hit a spinnerbait, go figure?

Started seeing a few on beds and Nico caught a 2lb spot on a drop shot, then a 2.5lb largemouth. We saw a 6 on a bed but it swam off and never came back. Made a move and I caught a 2lb largemouth on a bed on an Assalt ringer worm in like 14'. A lot of fish were spawning super deep. We found a crazy deep bed with a 4lb muley on it but it wouldn't bite. Caught the male, culled, and kept going. Finally around noon we ran over a big one. I made 3 passes over the fish trying to figure out what was going on. Finally realized it was on this dinner plate sized bed in about 12' of water. There was no male.

On the 4th cast it ate my big hammer and I swung and missed. 10 minutes later it bit again and I swung and missed again. It was really hard to see, basically blind fishing with the wind. After the second miss, the fish swam up, looked at the outboard and swam away. It never came back! Never seen such a weird scenario before. The fish never felt the hook, it just decided to leave. It was in the 11-13lb range :( and would have easily won the tournament for us. I bungled a few more fish that might have culled us in to check range after that but nothing big.

We weighed 10lbs and change and finished out of the money.

Nico fished the ABA team tourney by himself in his boat last weekend. I was out of town. He hooked an 11lber and had it to the boat but it fell of when he reached for the net. Shoulda won that one too! So a little bad luck the last two events. I think we made the ABA TOC so at least we get to go to clear lake in the fall :)